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Fox Reverses Poll Results To Falsely Claim Most Americans Favor Ending Collective Bargaining

source: http://mediamatters.org/research/201102230006

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On Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade claimed, along with an on-screen graphic, that a recent USA Today/Gallup poll found that "61 percent" of Americans are in favor of taking away collective bargaining rights from public unions. In fact, Fox aired the results of the poll completely backward: the Gallup poll found that 61 percent of Americans are opposed to taking away collective bargaining rights.

Fox Airs Backward Graphic To Falsely Claim "61 Percent" Of Americans "In Favor Of Taking [Bargaining Rights] Away"

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In Fact, USA Today/Gallup Poll Results Showed "61% Would Oppose A Law Similar To [The] Proposal In Wisconsin"

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UPDATE: Kilmeade issued a correction during the final minute of Fox & Friends - 44 minutes after the error - saying: "I want to correct a poll that we did about 22 minutes ago from Gallup. Sixty-one percent oppose taking collective bargaining away from those people in Wisconsin; 33 percent in favor. I had it reversed. I apologize." In fact, the poll asked if people would oppose a similar law in their own states. A graphic was aired correctly showing that 61 percent of those polled oppose taking collective bargaining away:
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132 comments // Fox Reverses Poll Results To Falsely Claim Most Americans Favor Ending Collective Bargaining // Video

  • spotlighting
    • +2
      spotlighting  

    • Did anyone see Hanidy last night? He had a panel on trying to say what they thought about the Wisconsin marchers.They Had a problem trying to get the people to say what Fox wanted them to say.
      Fox kept going back to the two Tea Party older ladies.
      They had the panel so confused they just didn't know what to say.
      Terrible to do this to the voters!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • M_Cubed
  • extracrazykiwi2008
  • spotlighting
  • Roldan
    • 0
      Roldan  

    • Posting this kind of “news” here is getting to be so goddamneddiculous, because most of us here know what Fox is all about. We know!

      Wouldn’t it be better to compile a catalog of these bits and lies and use them to perform intellectual interventions on those Fox viewers that could still be rescued? Oh, yeah, I forgot, there’s not enough raw material to work with in that segment of the population, so there goes my idea down the toilet.

      Well, then, at least post them in the “comedy” section, where they belong, or create a new section, Time Wasters, and throw them there for when watching paint dry is not tedious enough.

    • 1 year ago
  • spotlighting
    • 0
      spotlighting  
    • Roldan:

      The people at Fox news can only remember what was said at the time and think it is the truth. They don't wait for the corrections that Fox makes. Fox is counting on these people to spread their ridiculous comments. These people are so hypnotized that their is no way to even discuss the truth with them.

      Fox news people think Beck's chalkboard is jut the most wonderful education for them.
      No way to change their minds. They must just be left behind. No way to reason with these people. There are lots of seniors that just love Fox, and watch daily with this incredible crap.

    • 1 year ago
  • spotlighting
    • 0
      spotlighting  
    • Roldan:

      I think Keith is just sitting back and collecting all of Fox propaganda.
      We will hear from him in a few months.
      Can't wait to hear what he has to say.
      The Last Word is doing a good job now.

    • 1 year ago
  • PeteLeS33
  • Roldan
    • 0
      Roldan  
    • PeteLeS33:

      ". . .Gobbels would be proud"

      He is. I know, I am a medium, I speak with the dead, and he says he's a top consultant for Fox, I asked for evidence to back up his claim, and he said:

      "Evidence? just watch 10 minutes of their political commentary and you'll find your evidence, son. That's some of my best work and I am oh so proud of"

      And he added:

      "and by the way, what's with you smart people, so santorum with the fucking facts and evidence, why is it so important to you, those facts? we don't use them and see? millions and millions of loyal viewers and consumers, ja ja ja"

      Note: since he referred as "we" when speaking of Fox, I have to assume he's a shareholder of the News Corp conglomerate. I have not confirmed this. Yet.

    • 1 year ago
  • oroszdavid
    • 0
      oroszdavid  

    • I used to spend my time hating Fox News and it's constant right-wing propaganda. I've evolved enough over the years to simply chuckle at what they
      say...The only on-air Fox News personality I still love to hate is Dennis Miller, who
      appears on O'Reilly. That man always seems to be laughing at his own thoughts.
      Good for him...I've never found him funny....ever!

    • 1 year ago
  • navider
    • +1
      navider  

    • I smell the evil of the right wing!!

      They just expect their minions to blindly follow their lies.

      This is the reason we have so much ignorance and hatred in our society.

      The right wing knows that if it repeats the same lie enough it will become real to their listeners.

      These cons and billionaires will lie and say anything as long as it sinks into an uninformed individuals mind.

    • 1 year ago
  • Huffington_Ghost
  • Seauvan
    • +2
      Seauvan  

    • Do these guys eat Elmer's glue or something? I'm totally at a loss to understand how an entire news organisation can be so incompetent...and have a completely clear conscience about it.

    • 1 year ago
  • kvb1
    • +1
      kvb1  

    • Just another example of Fox manipulating their viewers with lies. By the time the correction happened, so far removed from the piece that many would have disregarded it, or not even heard it. The teachers in Madison were correct to yell "FOX Lies"!

    • 1 year ago
  • VanessafromDC
  • Ophiuchus
    • +1
      Ophiuchus  

    • Fox believes that a thief is a King until he is caught. The malfunction at the junction in the vestigial structure of their brain, where they ware their 'magic pants', is something they are proud of and don't mind playing the part of Bimbo's and cheap tricks.

    • 1 year ago
  • budsnews
  • Conniepae
    • +2
      Conniepae  

    • In the world of 'just say it', facts don't matter. 'Just say it and move along', some believe whatever is said, regardless of facts. Sad, sad, sad!

    • 1 year ago
  • xhuffpo
    • +5
      xhuffpo  

    • Remember fox went to court and won the right to lie legally. It is up to the people to sort out the lies.
      That is what they call fair and balanced.
      The people can watch them for any reason other than to help them vomit out a poison.

    • 1 year ago
  • August_K
  • Danny_Mcstotts
    • 0
      Danny_Mcstotts  

    • How is it they can legally call themselves a news organization? They intentionally do this, they have done it before because they know their viewers do not want hear the correction or the apology this tactic has been perfected by faux news, rush, beck, hannity and not so dr laura(not a doctor) by making the zombie right believe that when they apologize or make a correction its some kind of liberal conspiracy. So they ignore the apology and correction and go around all day saying 61% of people are against the public unions collective bargaining.

    • 1 year ago
  • Danny_Mcstotts
    • 0
      Danny_Mcstotts  

    • How in the world can they represent themselves as a news organization? They do stuff like this often and thats what people hear, they do not hear the apology!

    • 1 year ago
  • FLeggplant
    • +10
      FLeggplant  

    • What surprises me is that Kilmeade actually made a correction.
      Wow!
      Did Hell freeze over?
      The lie came first though so the damage was done.
      I'll bet the Fox viewers are soooo confused.
      The truth is poison to them.

    • 1 year ago
  • SFirman
  • WakeUpPeople
    • +4
      WakeUpPeople  
    • FLeggplant:

      yep. 44 minutes late and right before the end of the show, but at least they managed a correction. Almost impressed, except that it was a stupid "mistake" to begin with... And of course it was to their advantage.

    • 1 year ago
  • tlbuffin
  • FLeggplant
  • FLeggplant
  • FLeggplant
  • samthesixth
  • sla48
    • +2
      sla48  

    • I just start at ,,, they are lying and go from there. They have shown no evidence of being anything but liars.

    • 1 year ago
  • ArthurDent
    • +4
      ArthurDent  

    • You know what would stun me about fox. If they actually reported a straight up factual story with no spin of its warped agenda.

    • 1 year ago
  • Weedy_Seadragon
  • ecoalex
    • +3
      ecoalex  

    • The "tone of Fox is always from the right.Some can't notice this.Opinions are one thing,outright lies are another.Fox lies much of the time.Rasmussen is a well known right leaning poll. In how the questions are phrased,people will give different answers.Rasmussen polls are push-polls usually.Media matters has many articles on this,and Fox's bending of the truth.if you wish information don't even consider Fox.If you are right leaning,and want to be fed right wing pap,then Fox is for you.

    • 1 year ago
  • cmdinc
    • -7
      cmdinc  

    • i have in bits and pieces caught an entire day of FOX. The morning show is very similar to all the other ones such as good morning America, i will admit the morning show leans right, but as equal as GMA leans left.
      There are plenty others that are for the news...Shep i would say is a lefty, and basically from 9am to 5 pm its news. Beck and Hannity are opinion shows and are definate right. O'Reilly, in my opinion, makes efforts to give both sides of the case.
      Punk them if you want, it's a free country but to generalize all viewers as "whatever" is disingenuous.

      also anther "poll" you all might want to look at:
      http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/februar...

    • 1 year ago
  • the1union1man2organize
    • +2
      the1union1man2organize  
    • cmdinc:

      The fact are still the facts they switched the survey. So what is your point.
      Oh I see its the change the subject Oh look over there its Britney's new hair style or what ever the distraction! Move on there is nothing to see here.

    • 1 year ago
  • tlbuffin
  • cmdinc
    • 0
      cmdinc  
    • tlbuffin:

      I do agree the office of the president should be treated with more respect...that includes ALL presidents. O'Rielly was asked about the interuptions and he made a valid point...when he thought the president was spinning to eat up time he interrupted. He only was given 15 minutes. That he is an egomaniac...I agree...but he has earnd the right as being on top for so long

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
  • Chukarhunter
    • +1
      Chukarhunter  
    • littlwarrior:

      What is really frightening is that there are some that really do. I live in a Right wing, Red neck part of Nevada, and a lot of the people in this part believe that the only truth in news comes from Fox.

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
    • +5
      littlwarrior  
    • Chukarhunter:

      Oh i know I live in Idaho, there are people here who think Glenn Beck is the messiah. I will never forget one day back when bush was president I was still in High school and the class was having a discussion and I was operating on the assumption that everyone though Bush was shitty, cause well i mean duh, and this kid said that and i quote "Bush is the greatest president ever." I got in trouble becuase I started laughing hysterically and couldn't stop my self. Still makes me giggle. People like that are thick in these parts.

    • 1 year ago
  • Chukarhunter
  • fun_size
    • +4
      fun_size  

    • Fox News should be sued... they are in no way shape or form a "News" station. Their new tagline should be "the place where the truth goes to die".

    • 1 year ago
  • 2damax
    • +3
      2damax  
    • fun_size:

      They WERE sued...remember Jane Akre.
      the courts ruled that News media are allowed to lie.
      freedom of the press, includes freedom to lie (exept during war-time: where they would be forced to keep quiet.)
      aren't our constitutional kings grand?

    • 1 year ago
  • fun_size
  • Schnookums
  • BigAL72
  • BenjaminDover
  • BenjaminDover
  • Schnookums
  • BigAL72
  • jennilamb007
    • +1
      jennilamb007  
    • BenjaminDover:

      Hey, is that little black square in the middle of the picture the carriage holding Glen Beck and Michelle Bachmann, the Baron and Baroness of Bigotry? or maybe it's carrying Sarah Palin and Bill O'Reilly (sorry Hannity you can have her next time) the Count and Countessa of Corruption and Convoluted Crap.

    • 1 year ago
  • arigg
  • arigg
    • +4
      arigg  
    • hindotka:

      the guys in buffalo didn't try to lie to the whole wide world - they played a prank on this idiot governor in wisconsin, who was totally taken in by it, and then they told on themselves - fox flat out lies & then denies their lies - naughty naughty - fox = nonentity ha ha

    • 1 year ago
  • BrushwithDeathToothpaste
    • +6
      BrushwithDeathToothpaste  
    • hindotka:

      Yes because posing as a billionaire sugar daddy to get the governor on the phone is equal to telling millions of viewers that a poll favors your position when it clearly shows the opposite. You aren't so good at comparisons are you?

    • 1 year ago
  • 2damax
  • MizPiz
  • August_K
  • ecoalex
    • +3
      ecoalex  

    • Fox has been caught many times doing this.Each time they say Opps,yet the crap in in their viewers heads.Sometimes they correct many days later.This a pattern no mistake.Goebels-tell a lie enough ,the people will believe it.

      Fox viewers most misinformed on the news,no mistake.

      A misinformed public votes for morons.

    • 1 year ago
  • noxidereus
  • hindotka
  • 2damax
    • +2
      2damax  
    • hindotka:

      the people are forced by republicans to pay those taxes to support the corporations that don't. the unions are willing to stand by their state and country and pay more to help relieve the state. evil conservatives just don't care, they want rights taken away.

    • 1 year ago
  • bobbysgurl
    • +1
      bobbysgurl  
    • hindotka:

      I belong to a union. The only taxpayer paying to support me is me. My union has a two-tier tax system. Non-union members probably just pay into Social Security. Whoever gave you that information gave you some faulty information about union members being supported by "taxpayers".

      I pay taxes, and I don't bitch about it. Isn't that really the American way. For those who want less government, tell them to go back to pre-American Revolution days.

      We do not live in a democracy. This is a pure, unadulterated plutocracy.

      The first paragraph of the Last Poet's E Pluribus Unum is:

      "Selfish desires are burning like fires
      among those who hoard the gold
      As they continue to keep the people asleep
      and the truth from being told
      Racism and greed keep the people in need
      from getting what's rightfully theirs
      Cheating, stealing and double dealing
      as they exploit the peoples fears"

      These lyrics were written in the early seventies. If you didn't know any better, you'd think the Poets were talking about the here and now.

      The more things change, the more they remain the same.

    • 1 year ago
  • wyndesonge
  • downwitliberals
  • WallaB
  • Stoneyroad
    • +6
      Stoneyroad  
    • downwitliberals:

      Lies are the opposite of truth, and opposing truth is Fox news' prime directive.
      Flipping poll results around so they can say Obama is out of touch with mainstream America when in fact it is Fox who is disagreeing with the majority is disgusting.

    • 1 year ago
  • Stoneyroad
  • bundlebear
  • CalPal
  • noxidereus
  • moodyblue
  • sageohio
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
    • +2
      COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM  

    • What I now think is what I've known all along T.P. Which is that the cancerous corruption of America has metastasized far beyond the average suspicion or estimate. What I also think is that the source of a possible solution has moved far beyond blogging alone, and that we must start marching on our capitols if we expect to arrest this cancer before we no longer are the "home of the free and the brave".

    • 1 year ago
  • Tim_Patrick
    • +5
      Tim_Patrick  

    • Notice the lack of our conservative friends on these types of postings. No where to be found.

      @theAmericanPatriot -

      What do you think now after having seen Fox News lie about poll numbers, and David Koch talk candidly with Gov. Scott Walker. The Republicans are selling this country to the corporate wolves. Republicans are now, nothing more than corporate sell outs and pawns of big business.

    • 1 year ago
  • TheAmericanPatriot
    • -5
      TheAmericanPatriot  
    • Tim_Patrick:

      Like I told the lefty the other day, I can't be on the internet all the time like you guys. I have a job and life. I don't watch Fox News because I don't have super duper digital cable like you guys so you can watch olbermannn on channel 356.

    • 1 year ago
  • Proud_Progressive
    • +4
      Proud_Progressive  
    • TheAmericanPatriot:

      "I can't be on the internet all the time like you guys. I have a job and life"

      And yet it only took you 16 minutes to reply.

      "I don't watch Fox News because I don't have super duper digital cable like you guys so you can watch olbermannn on channel 356."

      1. FOX News is on basic cable.
      2. If we all have super duper digital cable, we must have some pretty nice jobs to afford them.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • TheAmericanPatriot
    • -6
      TheAmericanPatriot  
    • Proud_Progressive:

      Wow, someone is stalking me. I just happen to log in. Check my records. I am on lunch break. Is that alright with you sir? I have an antenna on my house that is how I get cable if I watch TV. I have maybe 8 channels. I have a local fox news I think.

    • 1 year ago
  • downwitliberals
  • hindotka
  • kennymotown
  • fun_size
    • +3
      fun_size  
    • hindotka:

      No actually they werent. In fact the very first people Hitler rounded up were the LABOR UNION LEADERS. Im sure Walker is just itchin to call in the National Guard on his own people.

    • 1 year ago
  • Proud_Progressive
  • Proud_Progressive
  • Proud_Progressive
  • Varex_Sythe
    • 0
      Varex_Sythe  
    • hindotka:

      Actually, fascist brown shirts dissolved unions in Germany. Hitler conned some labor unions to follow behind him, as well as other people. Once he dissolved the unions he threw the union leaders into concentration camps.

      Hitler got unions to follow him and ended up dissolving them.

      Right now the GOP is trying to get people to follow them and are trying to dissolve the unions.

      Are the GOP Nazis? No. But as a whole they are just a wee bit closer than the unions.

    • 1 year ago
  • bobbysgurl
    • 0
      bobbysgurl  
    • Tim_Patrick:

      I must ask you to refrain from equating the Koch's with wolves. ;-) Wolves are communal animals. It is all about the pack with wolves. With the Koch's and others like them, it's about how much wealth and power they can amass.

    • 1 year ago
  • bobbysgurl
  • sarasarasara
    • 0
      sarasarasara  
    • Proud_Progressive:

      TheAmericanPatriot
      "Like I told the lefty the other day, I can't be on the internet all the time like you guys. I have a job and life. I don't watch Fox News because I don't have super duper digital cable like you guys so you can watch olbermannn on channel 356."

      Proud_Progressive
      "TheAmericanPatriot: "I can't be on the internet all the time like you guys. I have a job and life"

      And yet it only took you 16 minutes to reply.

      "I don't watch Fox News because I don't have super duper digital cable like you guys so you can watch olbermannn on channel 356."

      1. FOX News is on basic cable.
      2. If we all have super duper digital cable, we must have some pretty nice jobs to afford them."

      Ahaha. What's the phrase I'm searching for? ...Oh, right: PWND. :)

    • 1 year ago
  • mcjk
    • +4
      mcjk  

    • Not that surprising. Thank you Media Matters for toughing it through watching FOX News in order to find the lies.

    • 1 year ago
  • the1union1man2organize
    • +5
      the1union1man2organize  

    • We all need to keep the pressure on this corrupt lie station, I believe we have them on the defensive.
      They are afraid of free speech while other reporters put themselves in arms way in other countries they on the other hand are afraid of someone pointing out they lie and hide there true identity.

    • 1 year ago
  • Progresshiv
  • arigg
    • +3
      arigg  

    • I noticed when the tea party protests that were orchestrated by the COCK brothers earlier last fall by shipping paid 'protesters' to places, 99.9% of the people were white - now when you see all these pro-union people spontaneously protesting all over the U.S.A. you see all manner of people, all the different color people, all mixing together - now which group of protesters truly represents the real population and will of the people ??? TRUTH will win in the end. POWER TO THE PEOPLE - Cock brothers & their ilk = NON-ENTITIES. Peace on earth with love.

    • 1 year ago
  • WakeUpPeople
  • espressobeans
  • Arizona_Huey
  • espressobeans
  • Arizona_Huey
    • +2
      Arizona_Huey  
    • espressobeans:

      espressobeans - Yeah I know but the fact that they actually admitted they're wrong is what has me light headed! I'm sure Rupert and Roger have already fired off vicious emails to ensure no future admissions of mistakes and/or errors are every uttered on the air again.

    • 1 year ago
  • Stoneyroad
    • +8
      Stoneyroad  
    • Image

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