FOX "News" Poll Asks Loaded Questions

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That is perhaps one of the least shocking headlines I've ever written. Of course FOX "News" would ask leading questions in their polls. To not do so would be completely out of character for a channel that lays its political agenda out there for the world to see.

Still, many people--almost universally conservatives--will maintain that FOX isn't biased. They buy into the "Fair and Balanced" slogan, just like they buy into anything the hosts of the programs tell them.

I remember back in the late nineties, a time when most people were blissfully unaware that The O'Reilly Factor, and Hannity & Colmes even existed, a drive in Las Vegas to get Prime Cable to carry FOX "News." The drive was headed by local right-wing talk radio host Alan Stock. Stock and his listeners cajoled Prime (now Cox) into slotting the network alongside CNN and CNN Headline News. MSNBC was there too, I believe, but to this day it exists many numbers up the dial, for unknown reasons.

So why, if FOX is unbiased, are such campaigns waged by conservatives? Enquiring liberal minds want to know. . .

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Fox News Poll: Do You Have A Neighbor Who Says Obama "Scares Them"?

Hmmm. It looks like Fox News is asking some rather loaded questions in its latest poll:

Have you heard any of your friends and neighbors say there is something about Barack Obama that scares them?

Yes 49%
No 50%

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