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Why do some people still swear by Fox News although they are proven wrong again and again?

Bush was a great president-wrong

Romney will win by a landslide-wrong

Obama is a muslim-wrong

Obama bows to arabs-wrong

All news media but Fox News is liberal-wrong

Obama was not born in the US-wrong

Update:

I see a tendency of avoiding facts from Fox News fans.

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  • 9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    people tend to watch the news that tells them what they want to hear. This doesn't apply only to Fox, although Fox News has taken it to an all new level of distortion for a tv news source (newspapers have been doing this forever). And you must recognize, from time on forums where Fox news watchers throw out (repeat) what they heard on Fox, that the truth isn't really all that important. You can tell them the truth, point out where the falsehood lies in what they are claiming, with proof, and they still will believe what they want to believe.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Im stumped.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    You didn't mention all the Benghazi corruption and cover up stories they had before there was even a hearing on the attack. Fox News is only entertainment they said it themselves while defending their right to lie to the public in court.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Now show a link to where Fox News said those things.

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  • ICH8TE
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I was just about to ask a question about why so many GOPers are afraid to admit that they listen to and watch Fox ______, and listen to Rush Limbaugh. But I didn't because all they'd do is come in ranting and calling childish names *yawn*. They brag so much how much "money" those two shows of lies make, but they won't ADMIT that those shows are making all that money because of THEM, the ignorant GULLIBLE sheep who watch and listen faithfully to get their barking orders LOL. So WHO'S being duped there lol? It ain't Fox or the Limbaugh show, they KNOW what they're doing to the sheep! You know how many of them will believe some sh*t just because they heard it on Fox or Limbaugh? The numbers would ASTOUND you, it's just that HUGE!

  • Don M
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Obviously you don't actually watch Fox News, or you would know that many of the accusations you regurgitated are false.

    Fox News covers stories the other networks largely ignore due to their partisan bias.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Getting your already set in stone world view regurgitated back at you is a hard habit to break bro.

  • 9 years ago

    Same reason why other people still swear by CNN, MSNBC, NPR and all of the other networks. Partisan blinders. You've got all of the other networks telling you what you want to hear, why not let the conservatives have just one telling them what they want to hear?

  • 9 years ago

    Because they just want their country to be back to traditional values. Most of the people that vote for these kind of people are narrowminded and ignorant of minorities. The case is..as long as I am voting against a party that support minorities and the change from a country that I once knew, I will continue to vote for them. Most people who voted against Obama still do because he is black. They just cannot seem to see that color is meaningless when we are all human. It's uneducatedness at best.

    Source(s): good luck
  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    For the same reasons that people believe anything Obama says, saying that the economy is in "recovery mode", that he's "creating jobs", that he's a "good president".

    Saying that someone was a good or bad president is a matter of opinion anyway. You can't be wrong or right on something like that.

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