{"id":24930,"date":"2015-01-27T13:55:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T21:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24930"},"modified":"2015-05-13T12:25:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T19:25:42","slug":"politifact-on-the-new-improved-fox-news-now-with-even-more-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24930","title":{"rendered":"PolitiFact On The New Improved Fox News: Now With Even More Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact checkers over at PolitiFact have updated their Truth-O-Meter scorecards for the cable news networks and the results are not particularly favorable for Fox News (which is not particularly surprising).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-politifact-lies.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News PolitiFact\" width=\"550\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24935\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1031215516893243\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Like me on Facebook\">Click here to SHARE this On Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/punditfact\/article\/2015\/jan\/27\/msnbc-fox-cnn-move-needle-our-truth-o-meter-scorec\/\" target=\"_blank\">According to PolitiFact<\/a>, the current results breakdown like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At Fox 61% of the claims have been rated Mostly False or worse.<\/li>\n<li>At MSNBC 44% of the claims have received a rating of Mostly False or worse.<\/li>\n<li>At CNN 20% of the claims have received a rating of Mostly False or worse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The change from their last analysis in September of 2014 shows that both CNN and MSNBC have improved their record, while Fox has sunk deeper into the abyss of dishonesty. Although, from Fox&#8217;s perspective that would be regarded as an improvement since it is their intention to deceive.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the types of stories that contributed to Fox&#8217;s downward spiral include the ludicrous assertion that Birmingham, England was a totally Muslim city that no one else can enter, and that France has 741 no-go zones itself. Those claims were mercilessly mocked and produced the Twitter hashtag <em>&#8220;#FoxNewsFacts&#8221;<\/em> as well as a brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24511\" target=\"_blank\">response from Le Petit Journal<\/a>, a French television satire show.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the report by Fox that a proposal by the Obama administration to close tax loopholes for the wealthy and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24590\" target=\"_blank\">cut billions of dollars of taxes<\/a> for the middle-class was actually a tax increase. And Fox also reported repeatedly that the Keystone XL pipeline would create tens of thousands of jobs, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/punditfact\/statements\/2014\/nov\/11\/anna-kooiman\/fox-news-host-keystone-pipeline-would-create-tens-\/\" target=\"_blank\">only 35 of them<\/a> would be permanent. Megyn Kelly did a lengthy segment revealing how Colorado Democrats were plotting to engage in massive voter fraud, except that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=21421\" target=\"_blank\">none of her reporting was true<\/a>. And Fox&#8217;s George Will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/punditfact\/statements\/2014\/oct\/19\/george-will\/george-will-claims-sneeze-cough-spread-ebola\/\" target=\"_blank\">fear mongered about Ebola<\/a> saying falsely that it could be transmitted by a cough. And we haven&#8217;t even touched on the lies about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10758\" target=\"_blank\">ObamaScare<\/a>, ObamaPhones, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=22519\" target=\"_blank\">ObamaCars<\/a>, or any other fabrication to which Fox appends the <em>&#8220;Obama&#8221;<\/em> prefix.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s only the tip of the iceberg. Every day there are new fallacies presented as truths by the practiced liars at Fox. The result is that Fox is the only network that has more false rulings than true by PolitiFact, by a wide margin. And Fox really has to work at failing the truth test 61% of the time. If you had any intention of being honest, you could do better than that by flipping a coin. Which makes it all the more incomprehensible that anyone still considers Fox to be a legitimate news enterprise.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>News Corpse Presents: The ALL NEW 2nd volume of<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact checkers over at PolitiFact have updated their Truth-O-Meter scorecards for the cable news networks and the results are not particularly favorable for Fox News (which is not particularly surprising). Click here to SHARE this On Facebook According to PolitiFact, the current results breakdown like this: At Fox 61% of the claims have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"PolitiFact On The New Improved Fox News: Now With Even More Lies","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,8],"tags":[33,908],"class_list":["post-24930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-propaganda","tag-fox-news","tag-politifact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-politifact-lies.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-6u6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9761,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9761","url_meta":{"origin":24930,"position":0},"title":"Study Confirms That Republicans Lie More Than Democrats","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/28\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Let their lying lips be silenced.\"According to a new study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, Republicans were found to be significantly more dishonest in their public statements than Democrats. 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