The Republican presidential contest is picking up steam. Obama is consistently polling under 50 percent. This one’s a toss-up, and in the thick of it is the Fox News Channel. It’s not just their role in hosting and vetting the candidates. It’s their role as the chief villain in the eyes of liberal Democrats struggling to push their version of the “truth” about Obama.
Jon Stewart rhetorically asked Chris Wallace about Fox on “Fox News Sunday” because he thought he knew the answer: “Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? The most consistently misinformed? Fox, Fox viewers, consistently, every poll.”
In the real world — outside Stewart’s smug bubble — this is garbage. A 2008 survey by the Pew Research Center asked media consumers three questions: Which party was in control of Congress (Democrats), who was the secretary of state (Condi Rice), and who was the prime minister of Britain (Gordon Brown)?
Let’s document how the viewers of “Hannity and Colmes” were better informed than Stewart’s “Daily Show” gigglers on basic political facts. Hannity viewers beat Stewart’s on the Democratic majority (84 percent to 65 percent correct answers), Condi Rice (a dramatic 73 percent to 48 percent gap) and Gordon Brown (49 percent to 36 percent). Overall, as a percentage getting all three questions right, Hannity won 42-30.
But there is nothing the left believes in more robotically than the stupidity of conservatives. Otherwise, they would not be conservatives. When liberals get routed in an election, they do not question themselves. The first and, for most, the only verdict is that the American people were disastrously flooded by a tsunami of stupidity and misinformation.
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John Stewart is a narcissistic useful idiot -( who gives a rat's ass what he says-?)
I suspect that you could take any five "liberal" commentators, like Stewart, Madow, Olberman, Letterman and anyone else you like. Take any five, add up their IQs and you would come up with a total less than 400. It's very difficult if not impossible to have rational discourse with persons of such limited intelligence, who believe themselves to be (God knows why) superior to normal people.
EdinNola you just described James McPherson & his alias Ellen.
Your comment is the exact type of generalization that this article vilifies John Stewart for. Obviously FOX news viewers are not the most consistently misinformed viewers and obviously "liberal" commentators will have an IQ higher than 80 which is equal to the IQ of an average middle-school dropout.
Don't be too quick to label someone with "limited intelligence" when you use the same strategies they do.
I appreciate your opinion, but I'm having a hard time finding any logic in it. If you have an IQ of 80, you are a Moron. That's my opinion of Stewart, Madow, Olberman and Letterman. Just my opinion, that's all.
Jon Stewart is nothing more than another Liberal journalist who is in Obama's pocket. Not much more that i can say about him other than he is very foolish & i do not mean in a comedian way either.
Jon Stewart is not a journalist. He's a comedian like Whoopie, Joy Behar, etc., all post funny and
now they all think they're political satirists. He's a nothing, nobody, another suck up who got a job on
the comedy channel, where else? He's the most misinformed. Another frickin liberal. Gol, I'm sick of 'this crap.
Republicans will not win in 2012 unless they first carry the fight to Obama and conduct exhaustive inquiries exposing his for what he is.
I meant, of course, exposing HIM for what he is.
Albert you are absolutely right!