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Fox Host Eric Bolling To Rep. Maxine Waters: ‘Step Away From The Crack Pipe’

Clearly the experts on contraceptives: these guys.

From last night’s Colbert… “Again with the math!”

Don’t give those in need anything, discriminate, pay what you want and change your mind on a whim on the reg without repercussion. Sounds like a plan.

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Fox’s Graphics Department is Having a Very Bad Week

And it’s only Wednesday.

The unemployment graph where 8.6 is magically greater than 8.8 or 8.9 floated through the Tumblr on Monday (the horizontal lines have been added to the original Fox graphic).

Now it’s on to geography. Let’s admire how New Hampshire replaces Vermont and Utah is now Nevada.

Images via Media Matters.

Today in Dishonest Fox News Charts

The Muppets: liberal, socialist pigs. And, you know, frogs and chickens and shit.

People who watch Fox News, the most popular of the 24-hour cable news networks, are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government than those who watch no news at all (after controlling for other news sources, partisanship, education and other demographic factors).

A new study from Fairleigh-Dickinson University, assessing which news outlets are the most informative. The most informative sources were, on the whole, NPR, The Daily Show, and Sunday morning shows as a whole. The least informative were Fox News, MSNBC, and “a local TV news broadcast.”  (unanswered: what about people who watch Fox News Sunday?). People who watched MSNBC were the most likely to mistakenly believe that Occupy Wall Street is a predominantly-Republican movement.  

(via shortformblog)