Fox News lies about Obama approval rating (VIDEO)

December 4, 2012 | Filed under: Headliner,News,RIght-Wing Myths,Videos | Posted by:

Fox News lies about Obama approval ratings

Fox News pretends that President Obama’s approval rating is falling, when it’s actually rising.

Fox Nation has put up a post entitled Poll: Obama Job Approval Drops to 49%. However, the problem is that Obama’s approval ratings are rising and not falling.

The Fox post is actually just a link to Gallup’s latest tracking poll results of Pres. Obama’s approval and disapproval and if you click on the link to Gallup you can see Pres. Obama’s approval ratings have been rising since November of 2011, while his disapproval ratings have all been falling.

The final irony is that while Fox accurately described Pres. Obama’s approval rating at the time (last Thursday, 29NOV12, of the posting at 49%) between then and now, it has risen 4 points to 53% as of today, 04DEC12.

Comments

  1. Ed Bradford says:
    December 5, 2012 at 8:18 am

    Economic analysis of the past is is interesting and educational. Using knowledge of the past
    to predict future events or guide policy is about as risky as stock market model predictions (look where
    that got us), weather models and climate models.
    Economics is a science when studying and analyzing the past
    and
    hocus pocus and religion when recommending policy or predicting the future.

    Economics is properly titled “POLITICAL ECONOMICS”.