JONATHAN TURLEY

22 Responses to “The Fair and Balanced Pie: Fox Finds 193 Percent of Voters Support GOP Candidates”

1. 1 Buddha Is Laughing 1, November 27, 2009 at 8:12 am

   Mathi-ness.
2. 2 anon nurse 1, November 27, 2009 at 8:16 am

   BIL:

   Thanks for the early morning laugh.
3. 3 Buddha Is Laughing 1, November 27, 2009 at 8:19 am

   One lives to be of service. And thank you for being a nurse, anon nurse. I’ve got both nurses and doctors in the family so I know who really keeps hospitals running.
4. 4 Dredd 1, November 27, 2009 at 8:37 am

   They are doubling up on a lot of things, which has the clone conspiracy theorists all atwitter.

   http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/11/book-politics-makes-strange-duplicities.html
5. 5 eniobob 1, November 27, 2009 at 8:53 am

   So if this is right,the DEMS should just mail it in,since their cause is lost.
   According to these numbers.:)
6. 6 Anonymously Yours 1, November 27, 2009 at 8:59 am

   And my bank balance is fairly large, so long as I do not take a deduction on paper. Math makes sense to be as most play glof.
7. 7 Elaine M. 1, November 27, 2009 at 9:30 am

   Fox evidently is using REALLY new math to gin up these percentages. Would anyone with a brain expect the clueless–and dishonest–folks at that “news” channel to be good at 1)doing math 2)spelling words correctly 3)telling the truth? Remember when Glenn Beck spelled oligarchy: O-L-I-G-A-R-H-Y???

   Sometimes I’ll turn on FOX just to get a good laugh.
8. 8 rcampbell 1, November 27, 2009 at 9:43 am

   I wonder who first noticed this Fox Faux Fact. Maybe JT himself. Maybe a watchdog group. Maybe MSNBC or CNN…. Certainly it wasn’t one of Fox’s regular viewers. They accept whatever nonsense that comes through the tube with mindnumbing obedience.
9. 9 Elaine M. 1, November 27, 2009 at 9:57 am

   rcampbell–

   I believe it was Think Progress who caught the “Fox Faux Fact” at Fox News’ local Chicago affiliate. Here’s a link to the post at Think Progress (11/23/2009):

   http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/23/fox-pie-chart/

   P.S. I like your use of alliteration!
10. 10 mespo727272 1, November 27, 2009 at 10:28 am

    Fair and balanced math!
11. 11 Former Federal LEO 1, November 27, 2009 at 10:34 am

    After all these years, I finally understand what irrational numbers mean…

    1 *potatoe*, 2 potatoe, 3 potatoe, 4, Fox *always* adds more…
12. 12 Stel Pavlou 1, November 27, 2009 at 11:19 am

    Erm… Just — erm….
13. 13 Dredd 1, November 27, 2009 at 11:19 am

    Hey Fox maverickyness is simply greater than the sum of its parts.
14. 14 eniobob 1, November 27, 2009 at 11:49 am

    So far I have read some”fair and balanced”commentary.:)
15. 15 Blouise 1, November 27, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    Do you think anyone who watches FOX News watches NUMB3RS on CBS?
16. 16 lottakatz 1, November 27, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    Maybe it was one of those “if candidates X, X, X, X were in a primary race who would you vote for’? kind of survey with alternate or sequential questions being asked with different or decreasing numbers of candidates … oh, wait, you said it was a Faux news story? I’m over-thinking it for sure.

    Nevermind.
17. 17 lottakatz 1, November 27, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    Good one Blouise.
18. 18 Elaine M. 1, November 27, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    lottakatz–

    Two excerpts from the Think Progress article I made reference to in an earlier comment:

    HARLAN (the anchor of the FOX affiliate in Chicago): “It looks as if the rogue route is helping Sarah Palin. Her book tour has meant new support. A new Opinion Dynamics poll for 2012 shows her on top when it comes to landing the nomination. Palin is at 70 percent, about a third higher than this past July. Mike Huckabee stands at 63 percent. Mitt Romney’s 60.”

    **********

    “In fact, the poll Harlan referred to did not ask Republican respondents to pick their favorite candidate. The numbers he cited merely represent favorable ratings among Republicans surveyed for each individual.”
19. 19 rafflaw 1, November 27, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    That was an example of Texas-type Math. I think the IRS should check some tax returns with that kind of Republican math.
20. 20 Gyges 1, November 27, 2009 at 9:41 pm

    Elaine,

    So what you’re saying is that while their math skills aren’t quite as suspect their command of the English language rivals that of my two year old son?
21. 21 Elaine M. 1, November 27, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    Gyges–

    I think it might suggest that they don’t have a clue how to interpret polling data provided to them by another source–which probably means that both their mastery of math AND English skills is suspect.
22. 22 Anonymously Yours 1, November 27, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    What do you mean you can’t deduct the cost of driving to the mall as a political fund raiser anymore?