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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox News thinks 6,000,000 is ONE THIRD of 7,000,000.
Fox News flunks elementary school math.
See the ridiculous graphic here:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fox-news-obamacare-graphic
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Fox News thinks 6,000,000 is ONE THIRD of 7,000,000. (Original Post)
madaboutharry
Mar 2014
OP
I hope someone somewhere thought to archive all these fucked up faux news graphics. SMH! nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Mar 2014
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Warpy
(111,437 posts)1. Showing only the top of a bar or line graph
is the right's favorite way to lie with statistics, to make things look a lot worse than they really are.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Fail and unbalanced.
Iggo
(47,591 posts)3. No. They believe that people who watch fox news will believe it.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)8. You better believe it; The power of tribalism
Those mooks are team players to the end.
Skittles
(153,296 posts)13. No. They KNOW they will believe it.
not only believe it, but pass it on
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)4. Whats even more absurd is that their audience believes them
They get away with anything. Their flock never questions them.
It's sickening.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)5. so true...
progressoid
(50,013 posts)6. Standard operating proceedure over that at Fox "news"
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)7. math exceptionalism
gotta smile
winstars
(4,220 posts)9. Cooking the books??? Of how to make a proper graph??? nt
11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)10. What's sad is that their viewers absolutely believe it.
malaise
(269,278 posts)11. Fux news and thinks must never be in the same sentence
Aerows
(39,961 posts)12. This could have just as easily
read as "Fox News Host Yells at Cloud!"
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)14. I hope someone somewhere thought to archive all these fucked up faux news graphics. SMH! nt
Ms. Toad
(34,126 posts)15. Unfortunately, people on both sides of the aisle do that -
Although most people do at least show that the graph starts at 6,000,000 rather than zero.
frylock
(34,825 posts)16. EXPOSED: Here Are The Tricks That Fox News Uses To Manipulate Statistics On Its Graphics
spanone
(135,924 posts)17. it's called 'keeping your stupid audience stupid'