{"id":41427,"date":"2019-05-07T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41427"},"modified":"2019-05-07T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T19:55:35","slug":"poll-fox-news-viewers-are-hopelessly-gaslit-victims-of-trumps-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41427","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Fox News Viewers are Hopelessly Gaslit Victims of Trump&#8217;s Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent release of the redacted version of the report by special counsel Robert Mueller has resulted in a couple of the worst weeks to date for Donald Trump. And that&#8217;s despite the fact that much of the most damaging material is still undisclosed. He is being barraged by legal experts who affirm that the report <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41421\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">contains ample evidence<\/a><\/strong> of crimes and obstruction of justice that warrant consideration of initiating impeachment hearings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-whitehouse-hannity.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Sean Hannity, White House\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38314\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2713221352025976\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The public&#8217;s view of these matters leans decidedly toward a consensus that Trump is dishonest and likely guilty of criminal offenses. They may be related to the hundreds of contacts by him and his campaign with Russian operatives, or his suppression of documents and testimony that points to his guilt. But there is one notable constituency that is oblivious to the reality of Trump&#8217;s wrongdoing: Fox News viewers.<\/p>\n<p>A new NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll breaks out the opinions of voters by their cable news preferences. And the disparity between those who watch Fox News and those who watch other networks is profound:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In this morning&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MTPFirstRead?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MTPFirstRead<\/a> \u2014 the Fox Effect. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ikXvEAXBPY\">https:\/\/t.co\/ikXvEAXBPY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eRlP5WRxxm\">pic.twitter.com\/eRlP5WRxxm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carrie Dann (@CarrieNBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarrieNBCNews\/status\/1125740759804710913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>These results reveal that Fox News viewers have totally bought into the propaganda that Trump and his fluffers in the right-wing press feverishly disseminate. They are the victims of deliberate lies that don&#8217;t remotely resemble reality. This is evident by the extreme differences among the Fox News viewers with their fellow citizens. If the pro-Trump numbers were just a little higher, that might indicate some measure of media bias. But when the numbers are so radically far apart, that can only be the result of cult-like indoctrination.<\/p>\n<p>It simply is not normal for 69 percent of the viewers of one network to say they aren&#8217;t worried about Russian interference in the U.S. election, when less that 50 percent of the viewers of all other networks feel the same way. It&#8217;s extraordinary that 50 percent of Fox viewers falsely believe that the Mueller report cleared Trump, when everyone else believes that by less than 25 percent. And how can 61 percent of Fox News viewers say that Trump has been honest about Russia, when less than 30 percent of the rest of the nation says that?<\/p>\n<p>These numbers, of course, are reflected in the overall approval of Trump as president. And once again, 73 percent of Fox News viewers are blindly adoring of Trump, while significant majorities of all other respondents vehemently disapprove. What this tells us is that the Fox News audience is living in an alternate world. They are hypnotically devoted to Trump regardless of what he says or does. They even obediently agree with him when he contradicts himself.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/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\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And for that reason &#8211; along with many others &#8211; it is absurd for Democrats to consider gracing Fox News with their presence. It&#8217;s ludicrous to lend their credibility to a network that hasn&#8217;t earned it. And it makes no sense whatsoever to support a brazenly biased channel that exists &#8211; from its inception &#8211; to malign them, and whose viewers overwhelmingly despise them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent release of the redacted version of the report by special counsel Robert Mueller has resulted in a couple of the worst weeks to date for Donald Trump. And that&#8217;s despite the fact that much of the most damaging material is still undisclosed. He is being barraged by legal experts who affirm that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,1200,8],"tags":[554,33,101,430,1247,34],"class_list":["post-41427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-nbc","tag-polls","tag-robert-mueller","tag-wall-street-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-aMb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42267,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42267","url_meta":{"origin":41427,"position":0},"title":"SO WHAT? 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