Fox News personalities are on the forefront of spreading misinformation about health care reform and here’s one example that takes the cake.
Bill O’Reilly, citing the New England Journal of Medicine stated that “46.3% May Leave Medical Profession” and “If half of the nation’s doctors are considering bailing on the profession if Obama-care passes, that is [...]
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) calls Fox & Friends hosts out for spreading lies and disinformation about health care reform… Enjoy!
Brian Kilmeade of Fox & Friends made the following factually-challenged statement regarding economic growth and unemployment, both things he spun in George W. Bush’s favor…
KILMEADE: I did not think the President was going to do this. He said, let’s just remember what I got when I walked in the door. What I had [...]
Fox & Friends questions whether Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) are defecting to the Republican party. They are retiring, Plain and simple. Only Rep. Parker Griffith (AL) has announced that he is switching parties.
This is another example of Fox News taking an obvious falsehood and putting a question mark after it to [...]
As reported, Fox & Friends manipulated a Rasmussen poll to show that more people think that scientists falsified data to support Global Warming. The error was obvious and inexcusable, especially in light of the new Fox News “zero tolerance policy” for such mistakes.
Media Matters for America sent an open letter to Fox News senior vice [...]
Fox & Friends used a Rasmussen poll to show how people feel about scientists falsifying research to support Global Warming. Fox News then took the poll results, did some manipulation, and displayed the results… totaling 120%.
Apparently, the actual poll results were as follows: According to the poll, 35 percent thought it very likely, 24 [...]
When President Obama spoke at West Point about sending more troops to Afghanistan, there were several instances where he mentioned success. However, Fox & Friends would have you believe he didn’t:
DOOCY: Interestingly enough, of the 4,581 words in his speech, one word was missing. That word was “win.”
Similarly, The Fox Nation web site [...]
Organizing for America director Mitch Stewart has come under attack by the trio from Fox & Friends over a comparison they made involving Sarah Palin and terrorists.
Here is their discussion (emphasis added):
DOOCY: All right, meanwhile, as we talk about those Gitmo guys, you know who’s really dangerous? Is it Khalid Shaikh Mohammed? Is it [...]
Fox & Friends ran the caption shown below stating, “Republicans’ hope rekindled; Wins send shockwaves thru Congress.” If they were referring to Republicans’ hope that the Democrats would win both congressional seats up for grabs, then they were right… Otherwise, Fox & Friends was misleading its viewers. Again.
Here are the results of the two [...]
Last month, George Will revealed that Fox & Friends host Gretchen Carlson’s former babysitter is Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN).
When [Bachmann] was a teenager in Anoka, Minn., she was a nanny for a young girl named Gretchen Carlson. Today, Carlson, a Stanford honors graduate who studied at Oxford, is a host of “Fox & Friends,” the [...]
