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Unfair, Unbalanced Fox News Poll On Health Care Reform

Leave it to "fair and balanced" Fox News to come up with a reader's poll about health care reform in which none of the answers favor a public option. Screen grab after the jump. (H/T readers Jon S. dmw and Rich H.)

Fox & Friends Do A Poll Dance

Guest blogged by Notveryhow

Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade, collectively known as the Fox and Friends couch, were all in a lather on Wednesday (10/21/09) about a new Washington Post/ABC poll that shows 57% of Americans now support the inclusion of a “Public Option” in health care reform legislation. They were joining the gathering (orchestrated?) chorus from the Right lambasting the poll. As Kilmeade said, “That is a dramatic change” from previous polling. Which it’s not. What is outstanding is the contrast of Fox polling with the rest of the field. With video.

Fox News Poll Asks, "Do you think Obama is still sneaking cigarettes at the White House or do you think he has completely quit smoking?"

That question sounds like it might come from one of Fox News' viewer polls but it was one of Fox News/Opinion Dynamics supposedly neutral and scientific telephone polls which they conduct periodically. H/T Sam Stein, at Huffington Post for catching this one. Funny, I never saw any poll questions asking if George W. Bush might be "sneaking" alcoholic drinks at the White House.

Sorry, Hannity, Obama Has NOT Endangered The US

We know this will come as something of a disappointment to Sean Hannity, who is just itching for a new war (for other people to fight, of course), maybe even hoping we'll be attacked but it's just not true that President Obama has endangered our country. Media Matters has done a roundup of 100 days of (media) myths and falsehoods about Obama's first 100 days and has some substantial evidence that Hannity's near-nightly accusations that Obama has weakened our standing abroad and that he has endangered the country are false. Don't hold your breath waiting for that information on "fair and balanced" Hannity, unless some Democrat on the "Great American panel" uses it during one of their 30-second soundbites. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for much more investigation into the report in any other show on "we report, you decide" Fox News, either.

Despite Biased Poll, 40% Of FOX Business Readers Not In Favor Of Tea Parties

A look at FOXBusiness.com just now shows that despite a biased poll in which the top two out of four questions are positive about the tea parties, 40% of respondents - presumably a pro-FOX and as pro-tea party a crowd as you could find - are not in favor. Screen grab after the jump. (Thanks to News Hounds contributor Dan for the tip)