"Sequestering The Truth: Fox News Misreports Their Own Polling Results"

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Sequestering The Truth: Fox News Misreports Their Own Polling Results

Posted by Mark at News Corpse

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=9209

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It’s bad enough that Fox News is compulsively disposed to lying about President Obama and anyone else who challenges their hyper-conservative dogma, but when they resort to lying about the product of their own reporting it’s an indication of something gone terribly askew. This is the sort of brazen deceit that Fox usually reserves for their notorious Fib Factory, Fox Nation.

Fox News just published the results of their polling wherein they asked respondents whether they would prefer a budget deal that reduced the deficit with spending cuts or with tax increases. The question itself was grossly biased in that it implies that there are proposals to avert sequestration by raising taxes. However, neither party is proposing any tax increases in the current negotiations, only the closing of loopholes to which both sides had previously agreed. Setting that aside, Fox posted its account of the poll results with a headline reading “Voters Say Cuts Are ‘Only Way’ to Control Deficit.”

That’s an interesting (i.e. thoroughly dishonest) interpretation of the poll’s actual results which found that respondents preferred deficit reduction by focusing…
•Only on cutting government spending: 33%
•Mostly on cutting spending, and a small number of tax increases: 19%
•On an equal mix of spending cuts and tax increases: 36%
•Only on adding further tax increases 7%


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1. So 62%

wants it handled with tax increases and spending cuts.