Saturday, April 04, 2009

Fox once again showing how "fair and balanced" they are

Fox News poll asks if increasing taxes for the wealthy means ‘nobody gets to be too rich.’

Fox News/Opinion Dynamics polls are known for often including a few loaded and misleading questions. In their latest survey out today, Fox’s pollsters asked a question that assumed that raising taxes would mean that “nobody gets to be too rich“.

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Another question asked respondents whether they believed that President Obama “wants the financial crisis to continue so government can take over more businesses and grow the federal government.” Twenty-three percent said they thought Obama wanted it to continue while 68 percent said they think Obama wants the crisis to end.

(Think Progress)
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How could anyone seriously answer that question? It's not like it was based in reality in any way, shape or form. The answers are meaningless because if anyone actually answered the full question - rather than simply the logical first part - there would be far more "no" answers than if they just asked if we should raise taxes on the wealthy.