I can't find Rush on my radios!!! If he would lose some bulk, he would be a dreamboat!
On Dec 4, 7:14 am, Liberal mike 532 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hannity: ‘If You Don’t Listen To Talk Radio, If You Don’t Watch Fox > News,’ You’re > Misinformed»http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/03/hannity-viewers-misinformed/ > Last night, Fox’s Hannity & Colmes hosted John Ziegler, author of a > push poll attempting to prove that voters who supported Barack Obama > were misinformed. Hannity used Ziegler’s study to complain that Obama > supporters didn’t know about “really significant issues” like Bill > Ayers and Obama’s views on coal. He insisted that only those who > watched Fox News understood the real issues: > > HANNITY: If you don’t listen to talk radio, if you don’t watch the > FOX > News Channel, you’re not anywhere nearly as informed as people that > are just hearing the bumper stickers, the slogans, the snippets of > the > commercials of the media. So, journalism died in 2008, and it > influenced a lot of people on the way out. > > ZIEGLER: That’s exactly right. > > Watch it: > > Studies have consistently shown Fox viewers to be among the most > misinformed Americans. A 2008 Pew study ranked Fox News dead last in > the number of “high knowledge” viewers, with only 19 percent of Fox > viewers able to correctly identify the majority party in Congress > (Democrats), the name of the U.S. Secretary of State (Condoleezza > Rice), and name of British Prime Minister (Gordon Brown). > > Fox viewers are particularly misinformed about the Iraq war. A 2003 > study found three common misperceptions about the war held by many > Americans: first, that US troops found evidence of close pre-war > links > between Iraq and al-Qaeda; second, that troops found weapons of mass > destruction in Iraq; and third, that world public opinion favored > Washington’s going to war with Iraq. Fox viewers were the most likely > to believe these falsehoods: > > Eighty percent of Fox viewers were found to hold at least one > misperception, compared to 23 percent of NPR/PBS consumers. All the > other media fell in between. … As to the number of misconceptions > held > by their audiences, Fox far outscored all of its rivals. A whopping > 45 > percent of its viewers believed all three misperceptions, while the > other commercial networks scored between 12 percent and 16 percent. > Only nine percent of [print media] readers believed all three, while > only four percent of the NPR/PBS audience did. > > Yet Hannity and Ziegler were convinced that media malfeasance was the > only reason for Obama’s victory. Ziegler even claimed, “Bush would > have won 65-35 with fair coverage in 2004.” > > UpdateFiveThirtyEight.com's Nate Silver has more on Ziegler's bogus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
