Day: December 20, 2010

Verbatim

Buck Banks

The first thing a president’s going to have to do when he takes his hand off the Bible is start lobbying. He’s going to need to lobby Congress. He’s going to need to lobby the bureaucracy. He’s going to need to lobby the governors. He’s going to need to lobby our allies and our international competitors. And I’m a pretty good lobbyist.

— Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R), telling the Weekly Standard why he doesn’t think his background as a highly paid Washington, D.C., lobbyist should disqualify him from running for president.

Fox Issues Nixonian Non-Denial Denial When Confronted with Evidence It Deliberately Deceives Viewers

Jon Ponder

In case you missed it in the pre-holiday bustle last week, the University of Maryland has released results of a study that found the Republican Party’s Fox propaganda channel deliberately deceives its viewers by presenting disinformation as “news.”

Even if you heard about the survey, what you may have missed is that, given an opportunity to debunk the findings, to provide a point by point refutation of the results, Fox’s point person chose instead to attack the University of Maryland as a “party school.”

First, here are the findings from the survey showing for each assertion both the anti-factual information Fox viewers believe to be true (with the share of Fox viewers versus non-viewers shown in parentheses) along with the reality-based fact:

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Verbatim

Buck Banks

The one target for us in two years is no longer extending the upper income tax credit for millionaires and billionaires, and scaling back what we had to do to get the compromise.

— Vice President Joe Biden, in an interview on Meet the Press, renewing the Obama administration’s vow to end the Bush-era tax breaks for wealthy Americans.