Do stupid people watch fox news or does fox news make people stupid?

[samsingh]

Just asking

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	Stupid People Watch Fox News
	1 (17%)
	Fox News makes people stupid
	1 (17%)
	Chicken and Egg Thing
	4 (67%)
	I watch fox news so duh
	0 (0%)
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[hrmjustin]

1. Yes!

[Zorra]

10. Correct. nt

[liberal N proud]

2. It is difficult to tell which comes first - BUT...

One thing for sure, FOX News reduces ones intelligence significantly.

[samsingh]

3. agreed

[tecelote]

31. stupid is as stupid does

[Salviati]

4. I would say that Fox news attracts those who are suceptable to being dumbed down.

It's like the modification that Frank Herbert made to the saying in the Dune series: "It's said that "power corrupts," but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible."

[samsingh]

6. yes

[polichick]

5. Both.

[Hortensis]

7. Oh, both of course. But for Fox's core demographic,

the saying, "You can fool ... some of the people all the time," definitely applies. When young I assumed that referred to innocents being cynically swayed by predators. The hard right taught me that there are actually many people who insist on being lied to all the time.

Which came first, self-made fools or their eager deceivers? Supply follows demand.

[randome]

8. We watch the TV we deserve.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[Initech]

9. I'd say a little from column A, a little from column B.

I know people who are smart except for the fact that they watch Fox News and listen to crap like Alex Jones and Sean Hannity, and that makes even otherwise smart people ignorant when it comes to politics.

[samsingh]

12. true

[Initech]

17. Info Wars, Fox News, and AM hate radio have been known to rot people's minds...

Far more than any amount of acid or LSD ever could.

[marble falls]

11. Fox News is what happens when you over define the demographic of your market's profile....

Tail wags dog. If they felt marketing to "tree huggers" paid better than marketing to "teabillies", they'd be serving chai at board meetings. And O'Reilly'd be selling insurance.

[samsingh]

16. i like your signature line question

how stupid people are to vote repug if they are not in the 1%

[marble falls]

33. Its the single question teabillies cannot answer.

[Gothmog]

13. I voted for chicken and the egg choice

There needs to be some more studies on this issue

[Gidney N Cloyd]

14. It's a symbiotic relationship.

[demwing]

15. You forgot "Yes"

and YES is my answer.

[samsingh]

18. yes

[bigwillq]

19. Chicken. Eggs.

Mmmmm.

[lpbk2713]

20. Faux Gnus is a train wreck for the willfully ignorant.

They simply can't not watch it.

[samsingh]

22. idiots compelled - sounds right

[Quackers]

21. Why can't it be both?

[samsingh]

23. it probably is both

[LeftInTX]

24. It's on everywhere - like at the gym

Exposing hundreds of innocent victims daily in my neighborhood.

(At least they got it out of the doctors' offices)

[samsingh]

25. i change it at the gym

[bravenak]

26. Absolutely. Without a doubt.

[Xolodno]

27. Both.

Stupid people (keep your government hands off my medicare) types watch it.

And then people who aren't stupid, watch it because its what they want to hear.....to massage their own shortcomings....you know...assholes.

Eventually they let a propaganda channel to let them do all their thinking for them and they stop thinking on their own.

As someone one once said "I don't agree with everything on Fox News".....they don't need you to, just agree enough and eventually they will persuade you to their propaganda in the long term.

[Jamastiene]

28. The chicken or the egg?

I don't know if FauxNews was created to make more idiots or created for the idiots who would willingly* watch it.

*It seems to be on in doctor's offices and other public areas a LOT. So, it may be also making people dumber too. Still, there are dumbass people who'd voluntarily watch that crap to begin with or Faux would have long since been a shit stain on history.

[samsingh]

35. it's like they bribed the owners of some companies to put it on

[wandy]

29. It's one of those circle the drain, death spiral things.........

/*---------- Mainline Fox Viewer -----------------*/
Brainwash_and_Repeat:
Fox attracts the addled brained.
Fox further addles their Brain.
Signal Brainwash_and_Repeat

[samsingh]

32. the repug cycle that falls into itself

[Half-Century Man]

30. Jormundgand

The world serpent that eats itself kinda thing.

[Wounded Bear]

34. Yes...nt