AJ and Rightfield don't deal in reality. They have a religion.
Here's the difference between them and myself. I change my position based on what's observed. If these independent economic firms said the stimulus didn't work I would change my mind. I would spin on a fucking dime and say "Goddamit the stimulus didn't work and wasted a lot of money".
These two on the other hand (and Jen, Busy, MeeMie, off2bed, vette, you name it) do not deal in observation. They deal in "faith". And faith is the denial of observation so that belief may be preserved. They believe a certain thing because they want to. And this faith leads them to deny observable, objective analysis (Moody's) so that they can maintain their belief.
They're no different than a Christian denying the fossil record because it threatens their religious beliefs. They're no different than a Jehovah's Witness denying that being inside of a whale is a lethal experience. These guys are the "creationists" of economic debate. The lefties here might as well be trying to convince a church full of Pentecostals that snakes don't talk.
You can always spot a history buff.
So the claim he vetoed nothing in 8 years was some monumental Merc level horse shit, right?
Especially one listening to Jon Stewart.
Most of the FauxNews viewers would be better off listening to Stewart.
"Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? The most consistently misinformed? Fox, Fox viewers, consistently, every poll."
The quantifiable evidence is overwhelming. Eight years ago, just six months into the war in Iraq, the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland found that those who relied on the Republican network were “three times more likely than the next nearest network to hold all three misperceptions — about WMD in Iraq, Saddam Hussein was involved with 9/11, and foreign support for the U.S. position on the war in Iraq.”
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll out [in 2009] found that Fox News viewers were overwhelmingly misinformed about health care reform proposals. A 2008 Pew study ranked Fox News last in the number of ‘high knowledge’ viewers and a 2007 Pew poll ranked Fox viewers as the least knowledgeable about national and international affairs.
The problem is actually getting worse.
In December, PIPA published a report, this time on “Misinformation and the 2010 Election” (pdf). The point was to measure Americans’ understanding of a variety of key developments that news consumers would likely be familiar with. As was the case eight years ago, Fox News viewers were “significantly more likely” to be confused about reality.
Researchers found that Americans who paid more attention to the news were more likely to know about current events. But Americans who relied on Fox News were “significantly more likely than those who never watched it to believe”:
* most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses (12 points more likely)
* most economists have estimated the health care law will worsen the deficit (31 points)
* the economy is getting worse (26 points)
* most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring (30 points)
* the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts (14 points)
* their own income taxes have gone up (14 points)
* the auto bailout only occurred under Obama (13 points)
* when TARP came up for a vote most Republicans opposed it (12 points)
* and that it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States (31 points)
This point, in particular, seems especially noteworthy: in some cases, regular Fox News viewers would have done better, statistically speaking, if they had received no news at all and simply guessed whether the claims about current events were accurate.
It would take an unlikely twist of self-reflection, but at a certain point, Fox News and its audience might take a moment to ponder why these viewers are so wrong, so often, about so much. That almost certainly won’t happen, of course, in part because the network and its viewers aren’t quite informed enough to realize they’re misinformed.
That said, Wallace is certainly correct in his observation: the network’s viewers “aren’t the least bit disappointed” with what Fox News airs.
Why would they be? Ignorance is bliss.
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