President Obama: "Nice try, Fox News. You fail." (White House photo by Pete Souza)
Via Talking Points Memo, Fox "News" is clearly flailing on the job:
Twenty-nine percent of those polled by Fox said they would be “scared” if Obama were re-elected, 21 said the same about Texas Gov. Rick Perry, 18 for businessman Herman Cain and 14 for former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney.
But not everyone is so afraid. A combined 37 percent said they would be “enthusiastic” and “pleased” if the president were to get a second term, while Romney only saw 21 percent in that group, Cain 23 and Perry 17.
Ever since, oh, say, January 2009, Fox has devoted itself to non-stop fear-mongering about evil, scary Kenyan socialist Marxist communist arugula-eating Obama. And yet for all that fear-mongering, even Fox couldn't round up that many dumb people (a.k.a. Fox viewers) to endorse the Fox propaganda that it will be the end of life as we know it if the president is reelected.
And there are other fun facts in the Fox poll. Like how 48 percent of respondents have a favorable view of the president, which is higher than the favorable view of any of the Republican presidential candidates. Or how only six percent of Republican primary voters say that "social issues, such as abortion and gay marriage" are the most important factors in deciding whom to support in the primaries. Turns out even the overwhelming majority of Republican voters are more concerned about the economy than banning homosexuality or birth control. Who'd have thunk it?
Fox reports; you decide. And you, America, (except for that 29 percent of you without functioning brain cells), have decided not to believe Fox's reporting.