Hannity: ‘If You Don’t Listen To Talk Radio, If You Don’t Watch Fox News,’ You’re Misinformed

[ProfessorPlum]

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via ThinkProgress: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/03/hannity-viewers-misinformed/

Last night, Fox’s Hannity & Colmes hosted John Ziegler, author of a push poll attempting to prove that voters who supported Barack Obama were misinformed. Hannity used Ziegler’s study to complain that Obama supporters didn’t know about “really significant issues” like Bill Ayers and Obama’s views on coal. He insisted that only those who watched Fox News understood the real issues:

HANNITY: If you don’t listen to talk radio, if you don’t watch the FOX News Channel, you’re not anywhere nearly as informed as people that are just hearing the bumper stickers, the slogans, the snippets of the commercials of the media. So, journalism died in 2008, and it influenced a lot of people on the way out.

ZIEGLER: That’s exactly right.

Studies have consistently shown Fox viewers to be among the most misinformed Americans. A 2008 Pew study ranked Fox News dead last in the number of “high knowledge” viewers, with only 19 percent of Fox viewers able to correctly identify the majority party in Congress (Democrats), the name of the U.S. Secretary of State (Condoleezza Rice), and name of British Prime Minister (Gordon Brown).

Fox viewers are particularly misinformed about the Iraq war. A 2003 study found three common misperceptions about the war held by many Americans: first, that US troops found evidence of close pre-war links between Iraq and al-Qaeda; second, that troops found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; and third, that world public opinion favored Washington’s going to war with Iraq. Fox viewers were the most likely to believe these falsehoods:

Eighty percent of Fox viewers were found to hold at least one misperception, compared to 23 percent of NPR/PBS consumers. All the other media fell in between. … As to the number of misconceptions held by their audiences, Fox far outscored all of its rivals. A whopping 45 percent of its viewers believed all three misperceptions, while the other commercial networks scored between 12 percent and 16 percent. Only nine percent of readers believed all three, while only four percent of the NPR/PBS audience did.

Yet Hannity and Ziegler were convinced that media malfeasance was the only reason for Obama’s victory. Ziegler even claimed, “Bush would have won 65-35 with fair coverage in 2004.”

[LynneSin]

1. Well if Sean Hannity says it, it must be true.....

:sarcasm:

[Zenlitened]

2. FACT: Listening to right-wing media is like...

... opening up your skull and letting someone take a shit inside your head.

It is THAT bad.

If you are listening to right-wing media, relying on it as your source of "information," you are being used, duped and manipulated on a daily basis.

[Javaman]

3. two dogs sniffing each others ass. nt

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Black is white and up is down

Lies are truth
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
Occupation is liberation
The Fundamentals of the Economy Are Strong

[Buzz Clik]

5. I won't click the link to listen to Hannity's stupidity.

But I find it interesting that he thinks he can criticize anyone about ignorance.

Sean Hannity is, without doubt, the dumbest human with a tv show. That includes all the crap on MTV -- Hannity is THAT stupid.

[Mad_Dem_X]

6. "Journalism died in 2008" - uh, what?

Journalism died right around the time of the 2000 election, thanks to assholes like you!

[AspenRose]

7. They are preparing their argument against reinstating the Fairness Doctrine

by continuing to tell their idiotic base that it's the REST of the media that can't be trusted, and FOX that is trustworthy.

So when actual FACTS are brought into the equation, they'll just ignore them and say the facts were biased.

And we ALL know facts have a liberal bias. :eyes:

[Hutzpa]

8. I must admit, I have a lot of respect for you guys listening to Sannity

how the hell you stomach that ignoramus is way beyond me.

[awoke_in_2003]

10. Some people

are masochists.

[Hutzpa]

13. ha... unfortunately that

we cannot run from, its a mojor problem for some people.

[defendandprotect]

17. And then they drag this garbage into DU ....WHY...????

[HopeHoops]

9. Fascism requires an 'informed' population of morons who know what they are expected to think.

[EnviroBat]

11. Couldn't have said it better.

Hannity is a good little Nazi propagandist.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

12. ShitinNanny

Dude does not have a clue about the scientific method and its relation to polling.

[ihavenobias]

14. Thanks for posting this Plum.

Very entertaining, in a sad way.

:)

[zbdent]

15. I wonder how many (non-NRA) RWers (and some NRA ones, for that matter) would know

which amendment starts out "A WELL-REGULATED militia," ...

[defendandprotect]

16. Who cares what these idiots are say...??? And why does anyone watch them...????

Why does any intelligent person go on a Fox show --????

[quidam56]

18. HANNITY'S AMERICA sure isn't MY AMERICA !

Hannity says Obama will bankrupt THE COAL INDUSTRY. Get your facts straight. To inform you Mr. Hannity, THE COAL INDUSTRY comes to Appalachia, gouges, pilfers, rapes, clear cut, blast the mountaintops off, fill their greedy pockets then file for bankruptcy so no one is held culpable for all the environmental destruction left in their wake. http://www.wisecountyissues.com Our coal is being shipped to China to run their country while the schools here in this COAL County are so old and outdated they can't even power up the latest technology kids in Appalachia deserve ! Of course the trade off is we can go to walmart and buy cheap toxic products ! Thanks to Presidebt Bush ( his mango's ) and THE COAL INDUSTRY for turning Main Street Pound and Appalachia, Virginia a third world America...

[pattmarty]

19. "92% of Fox viewers can't find their ass with both hands"

[Hyper_Eye]

20. This country is doomed.

I've watched thousands of Fox News clips. I have watched video from both extremes to the middle. But it did not dawn on me until just now while watching this video that this country is un-repairably fucked. As long as someone can sit on national television and talk about this "poll" as if it were an unbiased and scientific representation of the voter pool while Americans sit and watch and accept this complete load of crap... we have no way out. Would Americans have watched this dribble 20... 30 years ago? I don't know what it is about this particular video but it makes me depressed about our future.

And that is all I have to say about this Faux reach-around.

[HopeHoops]

21. FOX NEWS - When facts don't matter.