One Out of Five Americans Don’t Know Sh!t From Shinola
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One out of five Americans are factually deficient, preferring the fictional narrative typically offered by Fox “News.” In my home state, it feels more like nearly one out of two who prefer the “truthiness” of Fox News to all those other liberal-elite news organizations.
A new Pew survey reveals that 40% of Republicans watch Fox News on a regular basis. That approximately equals 20% of Americans. Assuming that the United States has a population of 309 million citizens, more or less, that means that there is a robust 61.8 million among us that don’t have a inkling of a clue, but are certain that they do. Staggering.
Unfortunately for Democracy, all it takes to turn this country upside down is 61.8 million nutters that intend to vote for the guy or gal Fox News tells them to vote for. This had to be the very thing that our founding fathers feared the most: a majority of voters that don’t know shit from Shinola.
Source: HuffingtonPost/AP
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Question for you. If Fox is all what you say….dishonest,a shill for the GOP and out right liars why on earth are they and have been the highest rated cable news station on the air for some time now? Are americans stupid and Fox meets that level? Why would O’Reilly get three times the viewers Olbermann gets? Maybe they are beaming some sort of signal that attracts americans with lower IQ’s.
That sounds plausible.
Yep, good a theory as any.
I just am doing my best not to give any ‘oxygen’ to this Faux News syndrome. I effn’ sux… and the poor turn out down here at the last election … omg! I’m wondering what tonight will bring?
So,let me get this straight. You folks dont like Fox.Is’nt that why God invented the remote control.
Rusty, you got to understand. I have a pornographic fetish for insanity. That’s why I tune in to Fox from time to time. I’m a little old school in the sense that I believe if you are going to write about it, you need to be familiar with a primary source. Plus, with the right disposition, Fox is downright comical.
I’m afraid my liver can’t take that kind of disposition!
SJ did a really good post in that perhaps it isn’t the stupidity that Fox provides but the ability for the viewers to express their racial hatred and biases in disguised form.
We should do posts on the tea bagging bigots that infest our workplaces Oso.
God help the one at my place if I ever get a hold of a picture of him. It will be photoshop city of this asshole hugging Presidnet Obama.
Joe infest is the right word man!
I can’t stand to even see the ClusterFox logo. I work with teabaggers who worship at the Beck shrine of stupidity and it’s depressing as hell. Sort of reinforces my Christian belief that there has to be a Hell to truly punish the assholes who produce and staff and watch Fox.
An example of what I endure-Friday one of them explained how the Depression occurred (Beck had a Wall St Journal guy on discussing this-with a timeline) when Roosevelt jacking up taxes caused the economy to crash!
My explanation that Roosevelt assumed office three years AFTER the crash fell on deaf ears. Deaf ears which are attached to stupid teabagger heads.
Even my jaded atheist ass would be on board to mentally invent a hell if I was sure the morons at clusterfux were going to be sent there. But I’m pretty sure Satan would be intimidated by that emasculating tranny anny, the Coultergeist.
This is where the concept of karma wins my belief.
I have a permanent block on FOX NOISE so no peeking here.
Me too and the regular Fox channel also, is blocked at our house. I watch my shows from there, next day online where they are not counted as far as viewers for Fox.
I have to confess, every now and then I will force myself to watch a fifteen minute spurt of FOX because it is the intellectual responsible thing to do if I go around saying I hate it more than getting kicked in the crotch. I can’t blame anyone from not being able to tolerate it, though.
Well I figure nearly every night, Jon Stewart and Colbert show glimpses into Fox and I see videos from there on other blogs, so I don’t need to watch any of it. Once you see one of them talking, you know what the rest are talking about. I let other people watch so I don’t have to, I’m a coward like that 🙂
The shocking thing is, Fox is so successful, the other networks are beginning to imitate them, CNN hiring Piers Morgan to replace Larry King is a prime example.
Oh, it’s getting even worse than that with Fox. I saw a blurb on one a them commie, pinko, bloggie things this morning. Apparently Fox is getting into the education business as well in some town in England. I want to say Walding or Wadding something like that.
Guess they figure, get them in the schools, dumb them down and we can get them to vote the way we want. Apparently David Cameron’s PR person, was involved with some trickery while he was at Fox News also, with hacking into the royal families commuications and some MP’s stuff. Coulson I believe his name is. Maybe 4d can enlighten us on that story I read a couple days ago.
Well they also count the viewers in places where tvs are holding you captive, like in Jiffy Lube or the doctors offices. Remember also, Fox is part of basic cable, where MSNBC/ CNN is not for some strange reason *insert eyeroll here* Not that many watching when you really delve into the polling numbers. So what, they get maybe 2 million watchers every night, that leaves 300+ million watching something else. Don’t be scared now, Fox is being outed as the Pravda arm of the GOP and lots of people are doing it. Oh and the average age of those pubbies watching Fox, hint, it’s not young people. The last average was over 55.
It’s the same here. Every damn bank in this town has it tuned to Fox M-F, 8:30-5. It makes me want to approach the teller, or the first employee in sight and demand they change it, and explain some folks are extremely offended by it.
Do that, you would be surprised by the reaction you get. Or you could use the Jess method of changing when they don’t want to change the channel. Don’t know that I should spread this nefarious trickery around though, I might get in trouble, yeah I might. Aw hell, I’m in good company and it’s not like this is going out to the world or anything :). Get thee to a Radio Shack or electronics store and buy a universal remote control. Oh yeah, they totally work for this, before you ask.
Right on! I’ll change it to Nick Kids and see how long it takes for anyone to notice.
I change them to the weather channel or cooking shows, depends on my mood and how bored I will get sitting there.