Ventures into scepticism
Media Matters recently posted about a new survey that actually showed that Fox News viewers know less about current events than people who watch no news at all. Now we already know Fox misinforms and is incredibly bad at getting the story right. And it shows every time you poll their viewers. But this is quite the whopper. Read more
I almost didn’t catch it in this compilation, but Greg Gutfeld from Fox News actually says the following:
Isn’t green jobs the biggest hoax since the moon landing? [@1:38]
Crude Coverage: How Fox Tips The Scales For Fossil Fuels
Seriously? How can you even have a normal discussion with these folks at Fox News? It’s blindfolds on, push your own agenda and shout the most inane claims and nonsense to further it. Read more
On the show The Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert mocked Rush Limbaugh for claiming that the heat index is a government conspiracy, joking:
The heat index is just more big government numbers telling you how hot to feel — just like their time index tells you how sleepy to feel.
He also mocked Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson for claiming that a recent episode of SpongeBob SquarePants was “pushing a global warming agenda” and falsely suggesting that there is doubt within the scientific community about whether or not global warming is man-made.
I didn’t believe it when I first heard it, and I am still amazed that they devoted a section about this on Fox & Friends, but according to them Spongebob Squarepants is indoctrinating your children and just telling one side of the global warming controversy:
If you didn’t catch it, this is what they Steve Doocey said: Read more
