Here is the ticket...Political if it bothers you...avoid.

AZ Jim

R.I.P. With Us In Spirit Only
Do you ever wonder why the people who stand to lose the most from a Republican agenda vote for them? Here is the formula:

Take positions on all wedge issues. Abortion, "attacks" on religion, environment, same sex marriage, guns, guns, guns, amnesty, Welfare, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and a few others. These are the ingredients of division. It's us or them. Now if you look at who is hurt most by supporting these people who use those "tools" to win election, local, state and national it is the very people who most benefit from the social programs but does it matter to them. No! As long as Billybob can keep his ak47, they can go to their church functions and brag about how much they've done to hurt those "commie" atheists and "minorities". Not as long as they are satisfied they are getting all those "freeloaders" off their Obamacare, not so long as all those "disabled" get jobs. TILL, it hits home.
 

That is a good example of how the far far left like to operate. They love to use shame and fear and little ever seem to appreciate truth or facts.
 

A lot of less than affluent, less than well educated, white, religious voters not only support the Republicans they do it with a rabid fervor that this Democrat can only shake his head in envy at. The Republican success in keeping their base fired up is largely accomplished by continually lying about the dangers that will befall the nation if Republicans aren't elected to protect them. This is what Fox does this is what talk radio does scare and lie, lie and scare and tell the same lie over and over again and it works. It works very well.
 
One of the problems with left comments about FOX NEWS is that they are wrong. FOX tries to give balanced news and FOX also has lefty types on the air too. One was full time in the evening but in the last year or so he left to run his own radio show and only comes back part time now. FOX also tries to have well known left thinkers as guests on their shows. Nothing wrong with that at all. But fortunately they do have some very strong right leaning folks too, which makes their listening a lot more balanced and interesting.

Nothing wrong with FOX NEWS at all. I don't listen to it all the time but NBC, ABC, etc., can also become quite boring if listening to nothing else. So I try to mix them up. I have to on some days as sports comes on and then I have to try different channels for variety.
 
Fair and balanced... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

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Oh come on Bob... Fox news is the media arm of the Republican party... they are hardly fair and balanced... everyone knows that.. They have hardly made that a secret.
 
Well look here. One of this forums most narrow minded and biased posters. Sorry, if you just want to see and hear only far far left stuff you have to switch to something only one sided and not general in coverage as those channels I posted of NBC, ABC, CBS. I don't like one sided coverage so I avoid those far left biased ones. FOX NEWS does cover the same news as other channels but do spend time emphasizing the errors of the far left politicians. I have NBC on most of the day but for certain shows I switch to FOX NEWS. In cases of certain national news NBC and FOX NEWS are both broadcasting identical news.

MSNBC is the worst as far as broadcasting for the far left political stuff. But there is hope for the listening audiences.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/20/report-msnbc-ditch-liberal-hosts-move-left-wing-tv.html

Report: MSNBC To Ditch Liberal Hosts And Move Away From “Left-Wing” TV

By: Jason Easley more from Jason Easley
Friday, February, 20th, 2015, 2:26 pm

The cancellations of Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid were just the beginning of the changes at MSNBC. It is being reported that the network is going to get rid of their liberal hosts and move away from “left-wing TV.”


Lloyd Grove at The Daily Beast reported:
In the longer term, these sources said, the Rev. Al Sharpton—a larger-than-life personality who attracts a 35 percent African-American audience but continues, after 3½ years of nightly practice, to wrestle with his Teleprompter—could eventually be moved from his weeknight 6 p.m. slot to a weekend time period, as MNSBC President Phil Griffin attempts to reverse significant viewership slides by accentuating straight news over left-leaning opinion.


“Everybody in the food chain from top to bottom understands that the Olbermann era is over,” said an MSNBC source, referring to the glory days during George W. Bush’s administration when incendiary liberal Keith Olbermann regularly attracted a million viewers—many of them seeking refuge from White House and Republican talking points.


The MSNBC source said, “Going left was a brilliant strategy while it lasted and made hundreds of millions of dollars for Comcast, but now it doesn’t work anymore…The goal is to move away from left-wing TV.”


This move away from liberal hosts would likely mean that Ed Schultz, Al Sharpton, Chris Hayes, and Lawrence O’Donnell will all be gone. Rachel Maddow will move up to 8 PM, and the rest of the night would be a to be determined question mark.
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Last year it was reported that the network views Morning Joe, Hardball, and The Rachel Maddow show as their three keepers. Maddow is still beloved by the left, but both Hardball and Morning Joe elicit loud complaints from some sections of the network’s viewership.
The fear is that MSNBC will overreact to their recent rating slide by making a knee jerk move to the right. There is a huge liberal audience that will watch left-leaning programming. The mistake that Phil Griffin made was offering viewers boring liberal programming. Griffin’s cookie cutter strategy of trying make more shows look and sound like Maddow created a redundancy of tone that caused viewers to flee.


The fear is that MSNBC will overreact to their recent rating slide by making a knee jerk move to the right. There is a huge liberal audience that will watch left-leaning programming. The mistake that Phil Griffin made was offering viewers boring liberal programming. Griffin’s cookie cutter strategy of trying make more shows look and sound like Maddow created a redundancy of tone that caused viewers to flee.

The problem with MSNBC wasn’t that they were liberal, but that they treated their audience so badly for so long that viewers didn’t trust the network to keep their favorite hosts, outside of Maddow, on.
It all started to go wrong for MSNBC when Keith Olbermann departed. The MSNBC viewers used to know could be leaving soon. If my suspicions are correct, get ready for the era of Scarborough at the former Lean Forward network.
 
A new Gallup poll exposed Fox News for the fraud that it is by finding that instead of being fair and balanced, the cable news leader caters to a viewership that is 94% Republican.
The Gallup poll on where Americans get their news painted the clearest picture yet of why Americans are so under informed, and who is really watching Fox News. Americans still overwhelmingly rely on television for their news. 55% of Americans get their news from television. A majority of those polled didn’t specify one network as their source of news (26%), but Fox News (8%), CNN (7%), and local news (4%) were the top three named sources. (Only 1% of Americans get their news from MSNBC.) The Internet (21%) topped both print media (9%), and radio (6%) to be the second most popular source of news.
Republicans (63%) get more of their news from television than Democrats (54%) because of Fox News. Twenty percent of Republicans listed Fox News as their news source. Democrats divide their loyalties, but CNN not MSNBC is their favored network.

Gallup dug into the demographics to paint a clear picture of who is watching Fox News. Sixty six percent of Fox News viewers are over age 50. Sixty nine percent of them are married. Fox News viewers are more likely than CNN viewers to be white, Protestant, attend church weekly, and earn over $75,000 a year. 66% of core Fox News viewers identified themselves as Republicans, and 94% of Fox viewers identified or leaned Republican.
Fox News’ audience mirrors the Republican Party, because it is the Republican Party.

For years, the mainstream media has been playing along with the lie that Fox News is just like all of the other networks. However, no other media outlet has such a partisan audience profile. An example of how partisan Fox News viewers are can be found in the fact that they gave President Obama a 2% job approval rating in the same Gallup poll.
Fox News has been selling a lie for decades. The network isn’t fair and balanced. Most Americans already knew that Fox was ideologically biased, but FNC has been able to spread its bias because other networks have adopted the Fox News model and talking points. By giving Fox News legitimacy, the rest of the mainstream media legitimized pro-Republican bias in their own reporting.

The media’s willingness to copy what Fox News has done has led to a disconnect between who the media thinks America is, and who America really is. Democrats have won the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. The reason why Fox News is the cable news ratings leader isn’t because the country is more Republican. It’s because Republicans as a unified group watch Fox News. If Democrats rallied behind a single news network, that network would be larger than FNC.
Fox News made news partisan by pulling off one of the great frauds of all time.
Fox pretended to be a legitimate news operation when they have always been a tool of the Republican Party that was made by Republicans and for Republican viewers.
The numbers don’t lie. There is nothing fair and balanced about Fox News.
 
Not sure where you got your Gallup information at all. You did not list your source.

I asked for Gallup poll information about FOX NEWS and this is what I got.

http://www.businessinsider.com/gallup-poll-fox-news-cnn-msnbc-2013-7

Gallup Poll Shows How Badly MSNBC Is Lagging In The Cable News Wars





  • Jul. 8, 2013, 6:17 PM


A new Gallup poll released Monday confirms Fox News' status as perhaps the most powerful brand name in news, while also promoting the still-valuable role television plays in how Americans get their news.

Most Americans (55%) turn to television as their "main source of news about current events in the U.S. and around the world," and 8% of those say they turn to Fox News. That makes Fox the most popular specific brand name for news. CNN comes in a close second, as 7% of Americans say they turn to the network for their news. MSNBC, meanwhile, sits far down the list and didn't warrant a further demographic breakdown from Gallup.

Beyond Fox and CNN, brand names no longer dominate the news landscape. No more than 1% of Americans say they get their news from MSNBC, ABC, NBC, BBC, or CBS. The non-specific newspaper (6%) and radio (4%) both also lagged well behind the television category.

A further breakdown of the networks in the poll clearly reveals Fox News' strength as the conservative and Republican network of choice. 67% of people who turn to Fox News as their primary source identify as Republican, and that number jumps to 94% if Republican "leaners" are included.

CNN, meanwhile, is where self-described moderates and Democrats turn for news. Of the responders who said CNN was their primary source, 51% were moderate, and 63% at least leaned Democratic.

MSNBC, though, couldn't be further broken down demographically because not enough people said they watch it as their primary source of news.

"With only 1% selecting MSNBC, there weren’t enough cases," Gallup's Lauren Kannry said in an email. "However, most of the story focused on the demographics of broad groups – TV, Internet, Radio and Print news consumers – so in that sense all outlets were covered. Fox and CNN were just the only specific media outlets that had sufficient cases to look at individually."

Here's a better look at the demographic breakdown of those who primarily watch Fox News and CNN:
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Absolutely Jim... When a group of people only are exposed to one aspect of the political climate day after day... Is is a wonder they believe it..? AND that they erroneously think everyone else believes it too.. It's called group think and comes from living inside the FOX echochamber.. Like the blind man feeling only the tail of an elephant and telling everyone an elephant is very much like a snake.
 
Hey BOB.... why did the country elect Barack Obama by a large margin? TWICE! The country is really center left... despite what FOX likes to tell everyone.

http://mediamatters.org/research/2009/05/27/report-america-a-center-left-nation/150537

As far as I can see, we did not do that even once let alone twice. His second margin was less than his first win. The Presidents do not win on popular votes. They only win with electoral votes. Obama had 365 and 332 for the second term. Bill Clinton had 370 and 379. Reagan had 489 and 525.

Obama was not near as popular as some seem to think.
 
If I only watched FOX NEWS I might get concerned. I also watch NBC much of the time and when NBC is busy with its overdone sports programs we watch other TV channels. We do watch a couple of FOX NEWS programs as a good balance to the one sided left news that so many other use. Best to try to keep balanced and not just stick to one channel only or one biased thought process only. Then you have cheated yourself.

Again, I represent myself as a mid voter and I do not make party anything I consider on vote day. I also consider others than the Republicans being pushed. Again, I say we should take political parties off the ballots and cause all to have to think about the candidates more than the parties. I sure don't think you agree with me on that type of ballot. Parties are nothing but pressure groups for political stuff and definitely not the best ideas for the country at all. Our votes are for specific states of districts to take care of their own people rather than thinking all about just certain political candidates.

It would be nice to get our government back to operating as it was designed.
 


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