What did I say!

Last week in the wake of the Jon Stewart interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, I challenged the lefty claims of Fox News viewers being "uninformed" by suggesting that poll questions and answers are reported based on the pollster's opinion of what the answer should be. It's one thing to ask "Which party controls the Senate?" but entirely another to ask "Is Obamacare going to fix the current issues with medicare?" The first question is one that has a definite wrong answer. The second is basically asking one to predict the future, and judging the answer right or wrong depending on whether it matches your prediction.

And now we have proof that the polls are asking that very kind of question.

Chris Wallace:

The Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact looked into that statement, and on its Truth-O-Meter it rated Jon’s claim false. But the details are even more interesting. In a survey called “Misinformation in the 2010 Election,” people were asked a series of fact questions like which president signed tarp? But the poll also asked questions like this. “As you know, the American economy had a major downturn starting in the fall of 2008. Do you think that now the American economy is ‘a,’ starting to recover or ‘b,’ still getting worse?” "Starting to recover" was the so-called right answer. If you said, "still getting worse" you were officially misinformed. And if you questioned whether climate change is occurring or whether ObamaCare will add to deficit, you were also mistaken.

What did I say? Didn't I say exactly that?

Liberals say "You disagree with our completely un-verified stance that we will continue to cling to no matter the mountain of contradictory evidence, therefore you are uninformed."

Irony at its highest.

Concludes Wallace:

Then there was last year's Pew Poll which asked four fact questions like what job did Eric Holder have? It turns out Fox News scored better, not worse, than MSNBC, CNN, the network evening news and the network morning news. As for individual shows, 31 percent of “Hannity” viewers got all four questions correct. 29 percent for “O'Reilly.” And all the way down near the bottom viewers of Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show" at 22 percent.

So folks, all that talk about you’re the most consistently misinformed viewers? I guess the joke is on Jon Stewart.