{"id":11276,"date":"2014-01-16T12:33:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T20:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11276"},"modified":"2014-01-16T12:33:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T20:33:59","slug":"gun-permits-vs-obamacare-fox-news-makes-absurd-comparison-and-fails-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11276","title":{"rendered":"Gun Permits vs. ObamaCare: Fox News Makes Absurd Comparison and Fails Math"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its unending campaign to malign the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare), Fox News posted an article that adds to the evidence that they are so blinded by their extremist ideology that they can’t think straight.<\/p>\n

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The article was sourced to Watchdog.net<\/a>, an affiliate of the Koch-brothers financed Franklin Center. It makes an absurd comparison between the number of new applications for permits to carry concealed guns, and the number of new enrollments in ObamaCare. What they have to do with one another is never explained. They might as well have compared the ObamaCare enrollments to the number of new Illinois driver’s licenses or how many shoppers visited the Skokie CostCo.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, Fox slapped a headline on their article that said “In Illinois, gun permit applications outpace ObamaCare sign-ups.”<\/em> But the first two sentences in the article contradict that assertion:<\/p>\n

“In two weeks, nearly 22,000 Illinois residents have applied online for a permit to carry a gun, according to the State Police. About 61,000 have selected an insurance plan through the state\u2019s Obamacare website, according to numbers from the state.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So to the editors at Fox News, 22,000 applications for gun permits outpaces 61,000 ObamaCare enrollees. That’s a pretty far reach, even for Fox. Something else they don’t mention is that the 61,000 newly insured Illoisians in December represents a nine-fold increase over the previous month. There are no numbers for the previous month of gun permits because January was the first month that they became available.<\/p>\n

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You’ve gotta give Fox credit for finding a way to promote gun fetishism while bashing ObamaCare. And while they may not have intended it, there may be a connection between the gun permit and ObamaCare numbers after all. With thousands more people in Illinois carrying firearms, there may soon be a need for greater access to medical care by the people they shoot. Isn’t that a fortunate coincidence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In its unending campaign to malign the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare), Fox News posted an article that adds to the evidence that they are so blinded by their extremist ideology that they can’t think straight. The article was sourced to Watchdog.net, an affiliate of the Koch-brothers financed Franklin Center. 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