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[arcane1]

1. That damn 29% pops up everywhere.

[gordianot]

29. In one form or another since the Nation was founded.

Just think 1 of every 3 persons you meet is an ignorant asshole.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Where did they ask this question?

Rush Limbaugh break room?

[Scuba]

10. Klan meeting.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

30. I'm going to guess people who were home during the day to answer their landlines.

The older unemployed and the retired.

[virgogal]

34. Nonsense.Quinnipiac has been polling too long to restrict the demographics that way.

[muntrv]

3. 29% also approved of the job Shrub did as POTUS.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Funny how those numbers keep coming back to us...

somewhere between 25 and 35% of the American populace and voting public are stone cold idiots.

And they're running shit.

[JonLP24]

12. The voting public certainly has a voice

but I think political contributions give a more accurate picture of who is running things or certainly is listened to.

[Wounded Bear]

24. Well, votes do matter...

assuming the Diebold crew haven't completely hacked the process. The big donors just provide advertising money. The problem is that informed voters stay home while misinformed voters get their idiots elected. The current congressional 'majorities' were elected by about 17% of the actual voting population. That's why turnout is so critical.

[JonLP24]

45. It affects much more than advertising money

op Senate Recipients Funded

Recipient Amount
Mitch McConnell $248,259
John Cornyn $184,809
Lisa Murkowski $126,850
Orrin G. Hatch $126,600
John Barrasso $101,000
Ted Cruz $99,500
Rob Portman $90,750
Cory Gardner $81,707
David Vitter $78,950
Roy Blunt $78,050

http://maplight.org/us-congress/interest/E1110

An internal GOP memo was leaked over a decade ago I believe similarly saying deny global warming & recruit scientists sympathetic to their POV which should alone put global warming denial to bed so it started with basically calling it nonsense to "it isn't man made", Palin actually answered yes and didn't stumble when asked that in the Couric interview. In Alaska, you can easily measure the methane coming from the ground but when she was asked the VP debate after her handlers coached & trained her stumbled on the man made question, hit a wall but managed a no out of it all. It was so absurd, the whole transition.

Recently it evolved to "I'm not a scientist" though there were was a ridiculous Senate vote over whether global warming is fact or fiction which some of the Republicans I suspect as to smarter than that still either pretended to or officially believe it to be a hoax. I'd mention Inhofe bringing in the snowball but he likely believes that it isn't real & also factoring in Bernie Sanders conceding him as an idiot.

When Sanders was a guest on Real Time, Bill Maher mentioned the global warming rhetoric indicates they're idiots which Sanders quickly countered that they are very smart referenced the big money contributions which has affected both the parties and when Maher said, "What about Inhofe" Sanders said, "He is a very nice man who believes what he says" Maher than said, the Republican party "a coalition of the greedy cynical & the truly stupid" which sums it up perfectly.

Regarding why they do all this, it is so obvious as to why. It threatens a penny the oil & gas industry won't make because of potential public support for regulations to cut back on the factual truth that the oil & gas industry is the primary source of the emissions. Everything from producing it, storing it, transporting it all of it releases the emissions.

I think overall Republicans receive either 82% or 88% of the overall contributions from oil & gas.

[hifiguy]

42. About 30-35% of the population in this country

have ALWAYS been morons who can barely figure out each morning which shoe goes on which foot. Someone has to fill up the bottom part of the bell curve distribution. And it's Faux zombies who have the critical thinking skills of lower plant life and fungi.

[dissentient]

4. lol. Perfect headline from The Onion

It just shows how many dumbos are out there who have been totally brain washed by Fox news.

God help this country.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Who is doing the trusting?

Oh, yeah, the FoxBots that sit around all day with their noses pressed against the screen.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. Trusted=popular./NT

[MBS]

8. That's also the % Republicans in US

No less appalling, though -
No wonder so many people are so unhinged from reality.

[JonLP24]

9. Are you shitting me?

I have long had this certain gut prediction that human civilization is basically heading in this direction to best explain it, greedy sociopaths, while humanitarians & populists are stamped out & the end result isn't pretty & I basically see it as practically impossible to stop it since they can figure out some tricks & schemes to deal with shit that gets in their to achieve to popular support of their eventual oppression.

I don't really know enough about the others or don't follow their reporting much if at all. I don't trust Fox & MSNBC regarding personnel changes or like when they fired Phil Donahue MSNBC always slides into untrustworthy ways. It was pretty good for brief period with editorial shows at night & the CNN style reporting in the daytime. But one of the last few times watching MSNBC where one of the anchors basically said let's hear Kerry defend himself this or something. Basically kept slipping one way after the brief period they show judgment it letting talent go or hiring the talent for something such as Meet the Press. CNBC, not even wort6h mentioning how untrustworthy they are. CNN, eh. Like all 24/7 they sell the battle more than inform. So much history could be referenced to discredit Republicans. Truman thought trickle-down economics was discredited because of the great depression. He urged business to urge the vices of monopoly, they can explain very truthfully why it happens & while is bad for the overall economy given that it depresses spending or at-the-time, it was well known under consumption doomed the great depression after it occurred.

The roaring 20s followed by the Great Depression a number of recessions ah I give up.

However this just tells me it is even worse than I thought and bad estimate of where we are heading & what we are facing to stop it.

[yeoman6987]

16. I watch CNN one night every other year

I find their election coverage decent. Yes even Wolf Blitzer. The rest of the news is DU. I occasionally watch ABC World News with David Muir if I am not busy. At most once a week.

[JonLP24]

28. The last time I watched any of was last summer

I remember ISIS & Ebola there was a lot of reporting of Ferguson protests which the media which focused on how long they have been continuously occurring, still out there at 3am but very little as to why. At first references to a shooting but no reporting during the brief times I did catch coverage as to what the specific details are.

MSNBC during the mid to late 2000s era, had CNN style reported all day before the Keith Olbermann or the Hardball which I never watched. I recall reporting that I only vaguely recall the details which mentioned (which I view a lot of inside knowledge reporting with skepticism) jealously on the part of Chris Matthews regarding MSNBC primarily interested in Donahue's show, I don't know if he played a part in getting him fired but they canned him simply because he was anti-war voice, he also had the highest rated show so that reeks of un-trustworthiness.

Out of the 3, CNN I view as more trustworthy, they need to can Don Lemon if they haven't already. He was the worst guy in CNN to send to do field reporting in Fergeuson. Or following the grand jury decision he opened up with some "tough love" which included pulling up your pants like blaming the victim for the discrimination.

I will say, Larry King in the first time I ever seen him interviewed who I value if he says something as likely to be true when he had nothing bad to say about CNN, said no if he ever noticed a direction in bias, said no. Mentioned, very favorably of Turner calling him the "greatest guy I ever worked with" said no one ever told him to "lets go get this guy" or "back off" on this one. Larry King alone improved CNN's stock in my eyes a great deal in that one interview.

Pay no attention to the title of the video that isn't close to what he really said. The interview mentioned the opinion style journalists which she considers herself to be one -- Larry King simply said that isn't the way he operated mentioning he never "brought his opinion" to the air. He didn't say they aren't journalists or Greenwald isn't one though he was the example to highlight the discussion. He just mentions he came from a different era but he says he doesn't knock it, that he "loves the business", it is what it is, & that there are so many choices out there. But my favorite quote during the whole interview is "I never learned anything when I said something". In another rare Larry King being interviewed on the same network he referenced when people used to guess if Conkrite was a liberal or conservative because you really couldn't tell which was the era of journalism he came from.

[edhopper]

11. Most of the population

Are skeptical and this reflects that.
But Faux watchers need to believe they get the truth (though we know they are less informed than anyone).
To say otherwise would be sacrilege.

[Dawson Leery]

13. 1) 29% +- are stood by Bush after

he ravaged Iraq, the reputation of the United States, and the global economy
2)RT is more trustworthy than Fox in any occasion.

[Initech]

14. And people wonder why we cant have nice things.

[Hutzpa]

15. They can continue watching their propaganda network

as long as the news section is dropped, that should be the campaign.

29% can't be right as this member is thrown every time there is a poll connected to fox news, it could also mean they're combining their local channels with cable, who knows, I just don't trust some of these polls.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

17. The breakdown is telling.

Among Republican voters, 58 percent say they trust Fox News the most, with 13 percent favoring CNN, 7 percent for NBC and CBS, 5 percent for ABC and 2 percent for MSNBC.

With Democrats, CNN is the top choice with 32 percent, 15 percent for NBC, 14 percent for CBS and MSNBC, and 8 percent for ABC. Only 3 percent trust Fox News most.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/fox-news-trusted-network-poll-115887.html#ixzz3Tv5kSQIx

Republicans trust the conservative media a lot more than Democrats trust the so called liberal media.

[Erose999]

20. Who are these 3% of Democrats who watch Fucked News? Turn in your Dem cards and exit the tent, now.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

22. "with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points."

[Erose999]

23. That still leaves .03%. Names, lets go!

[City Lights]

18. That's the base of the GOPee.

I'm actually relieved that it's not a higher percentage.

[moondust]

19. Somewhere

in a stinking little corner of Hell...Goebbels is giggling.

[Yavin4]

21. Trusted for promoting right wing bullshit?

Yes. They are indeed trusted on that scale.

[JonLP24]

36. I don't even see how they can believe

are they that blinded? I can understand if they favored their coverage, I like liberal news sources though but I have a big preference for honesty bias overall.

I remember after debates, I'd always switch to Fox News their bias is so obvious but they pretend they aren't biased for some reason. It had a text voting poll number immediately following so viewers can vote for who they feel who won the debate, without fail all 3 times plus the VP debate the Republican was yellowed. The Democrat was white but this kind of apparently is trustworthy to them which came across as trick to subconsciously tell the viewer who won or try to do it anyway.

Or slip in ask is it a "terrorist fist bump? " which is really WTF way to lead into a boring body expert language interview who happened to be the best body language expert I ever heard from. Pointed out a problem many body languages in box in a meaning to a specific movement, mentioning that is very unscientific.

[JaneyVee]

25. Dumb people trust dumb media.

[oldandhappy]

26. PBS for me

[Jamaal510]

27. They're the

most trusted, which doesn't necessarily equate to high quality. Some of the higher quality (and less biased) news like Al Jazeera and BBC aren't as widely-known or as accessible as FOX. If someone goes into a political science classroom on a college campus, saying that they watch FOX, they'd get laughed out of the school.

[stopbush]

31. So, 71% of people trust someone other than Faux News.

Isn't that the right way to read the statistic, as Faux News caters exclusively to republicans?

[iloveObama12]

32. What In Theee F***! What Poll Was This

[Spazito]

33. I always find it helpful to go to the Sample and Methodology detail to see what's

below the surface of reported polls. Here's the link to their detail:

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/us/us03042015_demos_Uic472gg.pdf

[CincyDem]

35. The reality is that the marching right know the party line.

Day in and day out, it's drummed into their heads and they take every possibility opportunity to regurgitate it without thought. They're lemmings marching off the cliff. They're the marchers in Mac's iconic 1984 Super Bowl commercial. But, say what we will about their message and/or their motivations - they are disciplined.

They may fight among themselves about Jeb's education policies or Christie's scandal issues or Mitt's irrelevance...but when the time comes to "fight the enemy" they show up all day every day and they drink the Kool-aid of the party.

I have to admit - I envy their message disciple.

[blm]

37. American Sniper a box-office hit. 3 decades of Moonie News propaganda WORKS.

.

[Sheepshank]

38. Ask the 1939 German rank and file how they felt about their fearless leader

the Public consensus would have been he was a great dude 80-90%. The others would be hiding from the census taker or already at the front lines. Clearly, history says otherwise.

Remember when Bush had an approval rating of 70%...remember how long that lasted?

That revolving 29-35% that seem to revere Republicans and their policies and their detractors, will also have a historical correction made some time down the road. I am 100% sure about that.

[immoderate]

39. We are observing a law of normal distribution.

About a third of the population will assert a wacko, reactionary view. If the views evolve, the numbers will adjust. Political necessities may also contribute.

The poll means nothing. FOX is unique here. The others surely have journalistic conflicts, but FOX is a propaganda mill. They have staked out the territory that most of humanity won't venture into, and left the others to fight over the rest, corporately speaking, of course.

--imm

[Downtown Hound]

40. 29%. That's roughly the same percentage of Americans that approved of Bush during the final

years of his administration. In other words, that 29% of reich wing America that gets all of its talking points from Faux News. A better title for this article would be, "American media scores terribly among trust with the public. Faux gets the highest with an abysmal 29% because that's about how many die hard Republicans there are that worship it."

Another way of saying it would be that nearly 71% of the American population trusts someone other than Faux to deliver the truth.

[samsingh]

41. what this means is that the same buffoons who've always liked and followed fox

have not changed

everyone else has realized the media is a sham. msnbc should do better, but i think scarborough brings it down.

[samsingh]

43. i trust some part of MSNBC and comedy central

[samsingh]

44. was jon stewart in the survery?