Half apologies to Half of Fox's audience

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  1. Golem

    Golem Well-Known Member Donor

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    For years I've been saying that Fox's audience is nothing but a gullible bunch that will believe anything they see on their propaganda channel.

    Boy, was I proven half wrong! I feel like I really put half my foot in half my mouth. A new WSJ poll shows that only 50% of Fox's audience believes that the Mueller Report exonerates Trump.

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    https://www.mediaite.com/tv/poll-ju...-trumps-claim-the-mueller-report-cleared-him/

    So I must apologize to that half of Fox audience. I promise that from now on I will be 50% more careful on what I say about half of them.

    I was half wrong and I wish to half correct the record. Which is the half proper thing to do.
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So.............half the audience is 100% wrong about one of the seminal issues facing the country in the last 40 years.

    Roger Ailes would be proud of the disinformation machine he helped build had the misogynistic pig not died.
     
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    Prosecutors do not exonerate. They either charge or don't charge. In this case they didn't charge. It isn't any more complicated than that.
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That's funny. I could have sworn I've heard the Divider-in-Chief say the Mueller report exonerated him. Guess he was wrong.
     
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    fmw Well-Known Member

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    Yes, he was wrong. He was not exonerated for anything nor was he charged with anything. That is reality.
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And now for the more difficult aspect of the reality test. Why wasn't he charged?
     
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    Golem Well-Known Member Donor

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    They might want to consider hiring him back. Because now even half their audience doesn't believe them. And Fox is completely dependent on blind trust.

    Next thing you know... they could be questioning that... gasp!... there might not have been WMDs in Iraq after all! They can't have that!
     
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    Supposedly because there wasn't adequate evidence to indict. Remember no actual obstruction occurred.
     
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    I'm afraid you failed the test.
     
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    Why do you believe Trump was not exonerated?
     
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    For years I've been saying that CNN and MSNBC are nothing but extreme left-wing propaganda machines and fronts for the Democratic party and this poll proves it.
     
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    This is something that keeps coming up in different ways, but it seems that half of Trump's base know that he did wrong, but support him anyway.
     
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    I think that many conservatives are quite aware that their side is less than truthful. Yet,as long as they get what they want, or what they think they are getting, they really don't care how they got there.
     
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    I read the Mueller report. I have purposely avoided listening to or reading anything from William Barr, who I hear is a liar.
     
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    I read that Mueller punted to Barr, because there was no collusion, and because Mueller didn't have sufficient evidence to bring a case for obstruction. That pretty much exonerates Trump of any criminal liability, does it not? I hear Barr is one of the most respected legal minds of the last 30 years.
     
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    So FOX having half again as many viewers as MSNBC and triple that of CNN, must mean FOX has taken a large share of the other two leftie stations zombies. Tell us again how does the market determine advertising rates and revenue?
    Please God leave Chris Matthews on the air. Something about a man with no teeth that spits when he is angry that makes life so entertaining.
     
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    Because he's guilty.
     
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    I can't help but think that the 50% that thinks it doesn't exonerate him misunderstood the question.
     
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    Back when Cheney/Bush were gearing up to start the endless bloody Iraq turd hunt, Hannity, Hume and the disinformation crew at Fox had 70% of the hapless fools who watched them convinced that Saddam Huessien was behind the 9/11 attacks. Back then they were shilling for war profiteering scumbag neoCONs. Now they have transformed into Trump’s personal network. I guess in a way, that’s a step in the right direction. Fox’s motto should be: “You can fool some of the people all the time, so let’s just keep concentrating on them”....
     
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    The very concept of fox noise came about because Nixon wanted a propaganda channel for Republicans.

    Yes, we have Nixon to thank for fox noise. Shocking! Simply shocking!!! :rolleyes:
     
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    I have a feeling that it's much more than half. But only about half will admit it. I guess I can't fathom how any living breathing human being who follows any news... even wingnut news... would actually believe that Trump hasn't broken the law.
     
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    Or, half of the other 50% are lying. Keep in mind that trumpers have a history of intentionally misleading pollsters.
     
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    Yep, almost as popular and Dumb and Dumber. ;)

    The general rule of thumb is that the less real news provided, the higher the viewership. If you had a channel providing nothing but facts, it would have virtually no audience.
     
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    So are you calling the viewers that migrated over to FOX from the other two stations really, really stupid? Remember they are the ones that left Hillary and either did not vote or changed their vote to Trump. That number seems to be between 10-15% Sanders supporters that voted for Trump. More than enough to take the election from Hillary. So sad.
    Be aware the DNC is in all out mode to do the same with Sanders in the 2020 election. ie. "polls" showing Biden with a 32% lead over Sanders. Obviously, this is fake news but the DNC pulled it off just four short years ago and they are working it again suckers.
     
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    If Trump was guilty, why didn't Mueller make a criminal referral? And why did the AG and deputy AG both say there was not sufficient evidence to make such a referral?
     

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