FOX NEWS OUT-DOES ALL OTHER NETWORKS IN TELLING OUTRIGHT LIES

 

Lies, Lies & More Lies

Don’t take my word on it, this is well documented by independent network monitoring operations.

 

Have you noticed that as useful as the internet is, there is a group of users that only make use of the radio waves, cable networks and the internet for spreading rumors, lies and ridiculous rhetoric.  Fox News is the main user of these avenues in this fashion.

In fact, the organization that regularly follows the networks, Pundifact, says that Fox News has offered the most falsehoods of all the cable & broadcast networks.

Per Pundifact, Fox News offers false stories 60% of the time, while CNN was the best network at only 18% of the time.  (And CNN was “Mostly True”, not outright lies.)

The details for Fox News overall statements are:

·       True Statements    8%

·       Mostly True           10%

·       Half True                22%

·       Mostly False          19%

·       False                      31%

·       Totally False          10% (This is the “Pants-on-Fire Award” for false statements)

The political fact checking site, Politifact has also given Fox News the LIE OF THE YEAR award every year since 2009.

Here is a small list of just a few of the past false statements that have come from Fox News :

·       Rape victims are asking for it.

·       Romney was going to win in a landslide.

·       Obamacare is a government takeover of health care.

·       Obamacare has death panels

·       More debt under Obama than all presidents together.

·       You go to jail if you don’t sign up for Obamacare.

·       $250,000 income is “Middle Class’, not being wealthy.

·       Tax cuts for the rich are good for everyone.

·       Green jobs aren’t worth investing in.

·       Fox News again won the latest LIE of the YEAR award from Politifact for spreading false information about Ebola.

·       Obama is going to disband the Marines by Executive Order.

·       Obama is going to disband the National Guard and US Reserves.

·       Hillary Clinton is, in fact, going to dismantle the Marine Corps. if she is elected.  

·       Fox News just reported that Obama is going to ban doughnuts!

If you want a very good list of Fox’s false statements, just Google Jon Stewart’s YouTube video “Laundry List of Fox Lies”, and you will really be entertained, and devastated, with how much lying goes on at Fox.

What would we writers and bloggers do if we didn’t have Fox News to kick around.

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