{"id":10813,"date":"2013-10-31T13:28:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T20:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10813"},"modified":"2013-10-31T13:28:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T20:28:39","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-bigfoots-epic-battle-with-obamacare-and-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10813","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Bigfoot’s Epic Battle With ObamaCare And Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

In takes a monumental heaping of chutzpah for Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to criticize the approval rating for ObamaCare when he is the lowest ranked<\/a> political leader in the nation with 22% favorability. He lands well below President Obama (49%), Nancy Pelosi (35%), House Speaker John Boehner (27%), and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(27%). But even this act of audacity is eclipsed by Fox Nation’s brazenly deceitful presentation of it.<\/p>\n

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The Fox Nationalist’s headline reads “McConnell: More Believe In ‘Bigfoot’ Than Obamacare.”<\/em> However, that is not what McConnell said. The source article<\/a> from the Washington Examiner quotes McConnell commenting on ObamaCare’s implementation saying that “just 12 percent of Americans think the rollout<\/strong> has gone well.”<\/em> So this is not a referendum on the Affordable Care Act itself, just the admittedly glitchy launch of the website. McConnell failed to note, though, that the job approval rating for Congress<\/a> is only 11%, so the nation regards Congress in even lower esteem than the ObamaCare website’s botched debut.<\/p>\n

McConnell went on to note that 14% of Americans believe in the existence of Bigfoot (which is a sorry reflection on America). However, there is no argument that the vast majority of the country believes that ObamaCare exists. So the comparison doesn’t make any sense. If, instead, they had polled on the public’s approval<\/em> of Bigfoot we might have a more apt (and interesting) comparison. But I still suspect that Bigfoot would have kicked McConnell’s ass off a cliff (figuratively and literally).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In takes a monumental heaping of chutzpah for Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to criticize the approval rating for ObamaCare when he is the lowest ranked political leader in the nation with 22% favorability. He lands well below President Obama (49%), Nancy Pelosi (35%), House Speaker John Boehner (27%), and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(27%). 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