What's utterly fascinating about this relentless FOX bashing is not so much that FOX lies, but the cognitive dissonance involved in avoiding the fact that they ALL LIE.

It's as if calling FOX on doing it settles the matter of honesty in media across the board. Plus it is cool to bash FOX.

Fair point.  People are fallible and bias exists everywhere.  Okay. I accept that.  Yet still, Fox News seems less like all the other News sources.  their commentary and reporting has a targeted bias.  They seem to hold tight to an ends justify the means philosophy in that they have a vision of how they want the world to look and find stories and spin "facts" to get there, regardless of the veracity of those stories or facts. 

If Obama said the sky was blue, Fox would show you pictures of a cloudy day and call the president a neo liberal nazi trying to impose a homosexual vision of of color on the world.

Obviously you hit the biggest ugliest target first.

hilarious foot-in-mouth segment!

Stewart wasn't even wrong in the first place. He said Fox News viewers were the "most consistently misinformed in poll after poll", and that was and is true. The countervailing evidence Politifact provided were a few instances in much less exhaustive studies where regular viewers of some other shows (including the Daily Show) scored lower than viewers of some Fox News programs. All well and good, but it wasn't a refutation of Stewart's point in the first place...but it was a great segue into showing the laundry list of super-lies that Fox keeps getting a pass for...

Why isn't PolitiFact comparing the lies coming from that other cable program, the one with more viewers than Bill O'Reilly, falsely claiming theres a sponge living in a pineapple in the bottom of the sea?

You mean that one that routinely issues corrections?  You mean that one that has a whole section on debunking news myths, including its own?  That show?  That same show that uses politifact on a regular basis?

Gah, more false equivalency, its one thing to make a mistake (even one fostered by your perspective) and then issue a correction. It's quite a different thing to intentionally misinform your viewers and never issue a correction..  Stewart's point. (set, match)

All Fox News needs to do is bill their network as comedy and then they can lie all they want... 

pssst, Fox already lies all they want...

You know what I meant.  Anyway, it was actually a potshot at Stewart.  Yes, he's a comedian on a comedy network, but a lot of people who get their 'news' from him believe it to be infallible, so he could be considered just as guilty as O'Reilly.

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i don't know anyone who gets news from the Daily Show, do you? its more like he makes us laugh, so we don't cry or freak out at the absurdity of it all.

and by bringing up O'Reilly it seems like you're perpetuating that false equivalency between Fox News and Comedy Central. come now...

O'Reilly just makes me want to choke him.  You and I may not know anyone that gets their news from the Daily Show, but I'm sure there are people who do.  There are a LOT of dumb people on both sides of the political spectrum.  A LOT.  And I enjoy watching Stewart make an ass out of the idiots at Fox News and in Congress, but I don't enjoy seeing liberals act like pompous wieners that think their shit don't stink.  That's all.

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haha, i hear ya!

"Fox Comedy News"... problem solved. It's a much more accurate description of their network anyway.

Cool.  Now dress up Bill O'Reilly as a clown and that will make me want to punch him in the throat even more than I do now.

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woohoo!

Anyone who believes everything anybody tells them will be grossly misinformed.  It's about educating yourselves everybody.  Don't trust the media to tell you truth, to get the real facts you need to check multiple sources and find the common denominator or use your common sense.  Both sides lie. 

and the most obvious comment of the day award goes to......

yeah, we know this. the thing is, what fox does is insidious.. they create the narrative in the morning and report it as news in the evening. this coupled with repetition and the fact that most viewers are a) inherently lazy and b) watching fox to confirm something they already believe is a dangerous combination.... and one worth talking about.

So you are saying that if one reads enough falsehoods, then one can develop a personal delusion which fits nicely into their worldview?

that's actually the opposite of what I'm saying.  Facts are facts no matter which way you slice it.  ALL media outlets have been bending the truth to their worldview for a long time now.  In order to have your own educated opinion on a subject you need to see how all sides present the 'fact' and use your common sense to determine your position.