In 2014, a fact-checking website, Punditfact, found that Fox News told the truth about 18-percent of the time. Punditfact is a division of Politifact, they looked at 83 statements Fox News had made and found 15 of them to be true. Most liberals know that Fox News is lying, but conservatives may be surprised by this.
Of course, conservatives are probably looking at this and thinking it is the “liberal agenda.” Conveniently, many conservatives think the Fox News is the truth, and the rest of the media is “liberal propaganda.”
What are the true statements? Here’s a few from 2015:
George Wil said:
“We spend more money lobbying than campaigning.”
Megyn Kelly said:
“Science is “very certain” that vaccines don’t cause autism.”
Most of the ones on the list are pretty simple statements.
Nine-percent of the facts checked were considered “pants on fire” lies. Here are some of those:
Dana Perino said:
“…the temperature readings have been fabricated, and it’s all blowing up in their (scientists’) faces.”
Tucker Carlson said:
“Far more children died last year drowning in their bathtubs than were killed accidentally by guns.”
Just this month, Obama came out and debunked a popular story shown on Fox News. They have been talking about how Obama made the country worse during his administration. Obama had this to say about that:
First, he presented the facts:
“By almost every economic measure, America is better off than when I came here at the beginning of my presidency. That the truth. It’s true. Over the past six years, our businesses have created more than 14 million new jobs. That’s the longest stretch of sustained private sector job growth in our history. We’ve seen the first sustained manufacturing growth since the 1990s. We cut unemployment in half, years before a lot of economists thought we could. We cut the oil that we buy from foreign countries by more than half. Doubled the clean energy that we produce. For the first time ever, ninety-percent of the country has health insurance. In fact, a poll that was out just last week says that two out of every three Americans think their own family’s financial situation is in pretty good shape.”
Then, he dished out an awesome takedown of Fox News:
“Now, I haven’t turned on Fox News or listened to conservative talk radio yet today, but I’ve turned them on enough over the past seven and a half years to know I’m not exaggerating in terms of their story. That’s the story they tell. You can hear it from just about every member of Congress on the other side of the aisle. Instead of telling you what they’re for, they’ve defined their economic agenda by what they’re against, and that’s mainly being against me. And they’re basic message is anti-government, anti-immigrant, anti-trade, and let’s face it, anti-change.”
Here is a lovely video of the most “WTF?” moments on Faux News:
https://youtu.be/GWuE3KSgnOw
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