You’ve got to hand it to the folks at Fox. Even after a University of Maryland study certified that people who watch Fox News are more misinformed than viewers of other networks, Fox still has the chutzpah to stick with their campaign to make idiots of their audience. These stories broke today on the Fox Nation:

With headlines like “Obama Brings Back ‘Death Panels'” and “Hey Gore, Eagles-Vikings Game Postponed Due To Snow,” Fox is proving their commitment to enhancing the ignorance of their audience.

Who would have thought that Fox would have the gall to revisit the thoroughly discredited assertions of “death panels” that were originally raised during the health care debate? Everyone knows that the advance-care planning that most medical professionals advocate are patient-directed conversations with doctors – not death panels. Well, everyone but Fox News viewers who still think they are government mandated arbiters of who lives and dies.

And the climate change deniers are getting another leg up from Fox with their utterly imbecilic assertion that global warming is a hoax because it’s cold in Minnesota in December. This ignores the recent heat waves and droughts in many parts of the world as well as the global average temperatures that set a record high for 2010 and for the past decade. It also ignores hundreds of scientific studies that affirm the warming trends.

The Fox Nationalists are not deterred by having been exposed as serial liars. In fact, they are taking the opportunity to spread the stupid on even thicker. It’s almost as if they are saying, “You think we were misinforming people before? You aint seen nothin yet.” And with that they take on death panels and snowstorms in the same news cycle. Perhaps their next move will be to combine the two into DeathStorm and release it for the Xbox. I’m sure the Fox audience will eat it up (recommended for ages 4-6).