Re: Study confirms that watching Fox news makes you stupid (they needed a *study* to know that???)
nickelshrink
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> http://www.alternet.org/media/149193/study_confirms_that_fox_news_makes_you_stupid/
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> Here is a list of what Fox News viewers believe that just aint so:
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> 91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs
> 72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit
> 72 percent believe the economy is getting worse
> 60 percent believe climate change is not occurring
> 49 percent believe income taxes have gone up
> 63 percent believe the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts
> 56 percent believe Obama initiated the GM/Chrysler bailout
> 38 percent believe that most Republicans opposed TARP
> 63 percent believe Obama was not born in the U.S. (or that it is unclear)
I am so ardently anti-censorship that it's not funny, but....
I can't wrap my brain around the fact that they're allowed to lie like
they do and there is no consequence, no penalty, nothing. Never has a
big network been so willing to throw its integrity away.
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Chakolate
news:8n6o01...@mid.individual.net:
> x-no-archive: yes
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> http://www.alternet.org/media/149193/study_confirms_that_fox_news_makes
> _you_stupid/
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> Here is a list of what Fox News viewers believe that just aint so:
>
> 91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs
> 72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit
> 72 percent believe the economy is getting worse
> 60 percent believe climate change is not occurring
> 49 percent believe income taxes have gone up
> 63 percent believe the stimulus legislation did not include any tax
> cuts 56 percent believe Obama initiated the GM/Chrysler bailout
> 38 percent believe that most Republicans opposed TARP
> 63 percent believe Obama was not born in the U.S. (or that it is
> unclear)
But the good news is that a mere 40% of Americans believe in Creationism
and a 6-10,000 year old universe, down from 47% a few years ago. Doesn't
that just warm the cockles.... well, hell, no. Forty figgin percent.
Chak
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It is so important to be proved wrong when one is.
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nickelshrink
That absolutely .... stunned me. I actually know one guy who
believes the 4004 BCE creation date, but he stands out in my
mind precisely because he's the *only* one i ever knew, and
i know an awful lot of Christians, including lots of fundamentalists.
I honestly thought the 4004BCE people were a very small fringe group.
Well, anyway, the number is down. That part is good.
Chakolate
news:8nh64h...@mid.individual.net:
> On 12/23/10 12:38 AM, Chakolate wrote:
>> Susan<su...@nothanks.org> wrote in
>> news:8n6o01...@mid.individual.net:
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>>> x-no-archive: yes
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>>> http://www.alternet.org/media/149193/study_confirms_that_fox_news_mak
>>> es _you_stupid/
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>>>
>>> Here is a list of what Fox News viewers believe that just aint so:
>>>
>>> 91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs
>>> 72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit
>>> 72 percent believe the economy is getting worse
>>> 60 percent believe climate change is not occurring
>>> 49 percent believe income taxes have gone up
>>> 63 percent believe the stimulus legislation did not include any tax
>>> cuts 56 percent believe Obama initiated the GM/Chrysler bailout
>>> 38 percent believe that most Republicans opposed TARP
>>> 63 percent believe Obama was not born in the U.S. (or that it is
>>> unclear)
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>> But the good news is that a mere 40% of Americans believe in
>> Creationism and a 6-10,000 year old universe, down from 47% a few
>> years ago. Doesn't that just warm the cockles.... well, hell, no.
>> Forty figgin percent.
>>
>> Chak
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> That absolutely .... stunned me. I actually know one guy who
> believes the 4004 BCE creation date, but he stands out in my
> mind precisely because he's the *only* one i ever knew, and
> i know an awful lot of Christians, including lots of fundamentalists.
> I honestly thought the 4004BCE people were a very small fringe group.
>
> Well, anyway, the number is down. That part is good.
>
I think it depends a lot on where you live. I know several women who
think evolution is just silly ('Then why are there still apes?'
eyeroll), although I haven't asked them how old they think the earth is.