{"id":9789,"date":"2013-05-30T07:49:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T14:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9789"},"modified":"2013-05-30T07:49:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T14:49:29","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-math-challenged-poll-analysis-on-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9789","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Math-Challenged Poll Analysis On ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"

In yet another attempt to turn their audience into blithering idiots, the Fox Nationalists have posted the results of a CNN poll on ObamaCare with a thoroughly misleading headline and commentary: “Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose ObamaCare.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nFor more Fox Nation mangling of the truth, get the acclaimed book,
\nFox Nation vs. Reality<\/a><\/center>
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Rather than linking to the actual poll results<\/a> on CNN’s web site, Fox Nation links to a little known blog, Red Alert Politics, an affiliate of Clarity Media. Ultra-rightist billionaire Philip Anschutz owns Clarity as well as the conservative Weekly Standard. The excerpt that Fox extracts from Red Alert says merely that “54 percent of Americans still do not support President Obama\u2019s signature domestic policy, compared to the 43 percent of Americans who support it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, that is not the whole story – or even an honest representation of the limited story. A cursory glance at CNN’s web site fills in the details that Fox has deliberately suppressed. Although CNN also distorts the lede, at least they include the data that puts the poll’s results into context:<\/p>\n

“A majority of Americans still oppose the nation’s new health care measure, three years after it became law, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n

“But a CNN\/ORC International poll released Monday also indicates that more than a quarter of those who oppose the law, known by many as Obamacare, say they don’t support the measure because it doesn’t go far enough.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, many of those who are being counted as opponents are actually supporters of a more liberal national health care plan. In a rational world, these people would not be lumped in with the Tea-publicans who want to repeal ObamaCare. They would be regarded as supporters who advocate an even more comprehensive policy.<\/p>\n

Since 43% of respondents said that they support ObamaCare, and another 16% said that they support a more liberal version of it, a more accurate presentation of the poll’s results would say that 59% of Americans were in favor of the legislation – including some who want it to go further – and only 35% were opposed. That’s a solid majority of supporters.<\/p>\n

But it may be too much to expect that Fox could grasp the complexities of math after they spent the last couple of years rejecting it along with pretty much every other principle of science and academia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In yet another attempt to turn their audience into blithering idiots, the Fox Nationalists have posted the results of a CNN poll on ObamaCare with a thoroughly misleading headline and commentary: “Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose ObamaCare.” For more Fox Nation mangling of the truth, get the acclaimed book, Fox Nation vs. Reality Rather than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","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":[1,361],"tags":[42,33,1142],"class_list":["post-9789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-healthcare","tag-cnn","tag-fox-news","tag-healthcare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2xT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11178,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11178","url_meta":{"origin":9789,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Misquoting Michael Moore: ObamaCare Is An Awful Godsend","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/2\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the favorite methods of distorting the truth that Fox News uses frequently, is to quote liberals out of context or to leave out significant portions of their statements in order to create the false impression that they have abandoned their liberal allies and\/or their principles. 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