So here's a typical example of how Fox misinforms its viewers. It was broadcast Thursday morning around ten o'clock Eastern time, and it features Fox correspondent Jim Angel claiming that President Obama has said that federal stimulus spending "didn't work very well the first time around."
You had Democrats yesterday asking that we include more spending in the deficit reduction talks, spending to help create jobs, something that President Obama said didn't work very well the first time around.
Obviously, that's complete bullshit; President Obama said the stimulus saved the economy from a Great Depression and helped begin the recovery. In fact, he's even suggested that he wishes he could have gotten more stimulus spending, but Republicans and conservative Democrats wouldn't agree to additional funds.
But according to Fox, President Obama is now a critic of stimulus spending. Of course, this is the same Fox that accuses President Obama of socialism for having pushed the stimulus in the first place, so it's not like consistency is something that matters to them.
This isn't the biggest deal in the world, but it's the kind of thing that happens every day, every hour on Fox. And it's the kind of thing that reminds you just how amazingly dense PolitiFact was to accuse Jon Stewart of being wrong when he said Fox misinforms its viewers. As Stewart said, public opinion surveys prove that Fox misinforms its audience. Despite PolitiFact's rebuttal, Stewart was right. But you don't need surveys to know that's true. All you have to do is watch it for ten minutes.