It isn't just liberals (political)

[Carnevil9]

You're so right Carney; even you must have discovered how much laughter you get defending Fox news anyplace where people actually think for themselves.

You must be used to being laughed out of Dodge by now.

And I thought that you were ignoring me? I guess the vision of my massive groinocological package is more than you can pass up. Can't say that I blame you, hunny-bunny. You are a woman, after all, and you have certain needs......

 

[Stella_Omega]

And I thought that you were ignoring me? I guess the vision of my massive groinocological package is more than you can pass up. Can't say that I blame you, hunny-bunny. You are a woman, after all, and you have certain needs......

Well, the reading glasses i used weren't strong enough to see it, so I pulled out a jeweller's loupe. Then I saw what you have been so proud of.

That four inches you were telling me about? Four Centimeters, really. I've seen clits bigger than that. Your math skills aren't any more appealing than your personality is.

Sorry pookie, my needs will have to go elsewhere to be satisfied. But you tried.

 

[Carnevil9]

Alas, I lose out again. Still, it is impressive how much you can see while having me on "ignore."

 

[Huckleman2000]

Okay, I repeat: Do you have an example of what you said?

There have been many studies done showing strong correlation between watching Fox News and having "misperceptions" (i.e., believing things that aren't true about political issues). Here's the first link on a Google of the words: fox news saddam 9-11

A new study based on a series of seven US polls conducted from January through September of this year reveals that before and after the Iraq war, a majority of Americans have had significant misperceptions and these are highly related to support for the war in Iraq.

The polling, conducted by the Program on International Policy (PIPA) at the University of Maryland and Knowledge Networks, also reveals that the frequency of these misperceptions varies significantly according to individuals' primary source of news. Those who primarily watch Fox News are significantly more likely to have misperceptions, while those who primarily listen to NPR or watch PBS are significantly less likely.

The table shows that 80% of Fox News viewers believed at least one of three falsehoods about the Iraq war.

I consider Fox News to be as legit and as balanced as any. They run more negative stories about left wing organizations, such as ACORN than the other networks do because the other networks run so few.

No, they run stories about ACORN because the organization works to register poor and minorities to vote. The sins of ACORN have been blown way out of proportion to the actual amount of government contracts received by the organization. Not that you'll believe it, but here is a report about the lies in media coverage of ACORN.
eta: Here's more about the ACORN jihad

 

[DeeZire]

I consider Fox News to be as legit and as balanced as any.

Really? That explains everything.

I refer you to the "Of Stupidity" thread, where your thought process is discussed at length. In case you don't have the courage to go there, that thought process involves ignoring information that challenges your ideology. That's what Fox News does - they filter the news to support their Right Wing agenda. If you're not balancing your intake of Fox News propaganda with something like MSNBC, you're only getting half the story.

Remember when Fox broke the story of that governor Sanford dude who was flying to Argentina to screw his girlfriend? Fox displayed his name with a "D" after it, even though he's always been an "R".

During the last year, Fox mentioned ACORN over a thousand times, while they only mentioned Halliburton 40 times. If you care to dig a little, you'll find much more scandalous events coming from Halliburton than from ACORN, but you won't find it at FOX.

From http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fox_News

The paragraphs below are sourced, so if you want to discount the information as biased, you'll have to use the "lalalala I'm not listening" method.

A year-long study by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA)[9] reported that Americans who relied on the Fox News Channel for their coverage of the Iraq war were the most likely to believe misinformation about the war, whatever their political affiliation may be. Those mistaken facts, the study found, increased viewers' support for the war.

The study found that, in general, people who watched Fox News were, more than for other sources, convinced of several untrue propositions which were actively promoted by the Bush administration and the cheerleading media led by Fox, in rallying support for the invasion of Iraq:

(percentages are of all poll respondents, not just Fox watchers)
Fifty-seven percent believed the falsity that Iraq gave substantial support to Al-Qaida, or was directly involved in the September 11 attacks (48% after invasion).

Sixty-nine percent believed the falsity that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the September 11 attacks.

Twenty-two percent believed the falsity that weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq. (Twenty-one percent believed that chem/bio weapons had actually been used against U.S. soldiers in Iraq during 2003)

In the composite analysis of the PIPA study, 80 percent of Fox News watchers had one of more of these misperceptions, in contrast to 71 percent for CBS and 27 percent who tuned to NPR/PBS.

As the Washington Post reported[10], "The fair and balanced folks at Fox, the survey concludes, were 'the news source whose viewers had the most misperceptions.' Eighty percent of Fox viewers believed at least one of these un-facts; 45 percent believed all three."

As AlterNet reported, "For each of the three misperceptions, the study found enormous differences between the viewers of Fox, who held the most misperceptions, and NPR/PBS, who held the fewest by far. Eighty percent of Fox viewers were found to hold at least one misperception, compared to 23 percent of NPR/PBS consumers. All the other media fell in between."[11]

The Project for Excellence in Journalism's "State of the News Media 2005" concluded that Fox was "the most one-sided of all major news outlets." On Iraq, 25 percent of 2,000 stories analyzed were negative and 20 percent were positive. "Fox News Channel was twice as likely to be positive than negative, while CNN and MSNBC were evenhanded." Also, "with the exception of Republicans who prefer Fox News," Americans don't seek out news sources that reinforce their beliefs.[12]

ETA: I see the H man beat me to the post.