Fox News gets the gold medal for "most misleading bar graph depicting a 4% tax increase" ever.

[HarveyDarkey]

[crim son]

1. A repuke "friend" of mine on FB is questioning this,

saying Fox never put up such a graph. Any idea where I can find the original broadcast or some proof it's real? I mean, something that would convince this woman who thinks of herself as "reasonable."

[nilram]

6. hm, the screenshot has 8:01p in the lower right hand corner, and some closing market prices...

So I'm thinking it was July 31st, 2012. Per Yahoo Finance,

S&P500 closed at 1379.32
DJIA closed at 13008.68.

Looking at foxnews.com, O'Reilly himself airs at the 8pm hour -- eastern time. Dunno how to find specific video, though.

[crim son]

13. Yeah, I can't find it.

I just want to shut this person up so bad! Heh.

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. You can try this - its from MediaMatters.

They put up a comparison next to it:

http://twitpic.com/ae795e

Edit - full article: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/07/31/dishonest-fox-chart-bush-tax-cut-edition/189046

[spanone]

2. they need to be dismantled. ministry of republican propaganda.

[jillan]

3. We deceive - You believe.

[part man all 86]

5. +1000

[JoePhilly]

4. You just know that Steve Ducy uses a similar technique to prove that he

has a large "member".

Very thick bars, and a truncated measurement scale.

[MindMover]

7. The question is,

What is the intelligence of someone that looks at this crap and then believes it ...?

[Grassy Knoll]

9. Three groups actually.......

1) Fox news Viewers
2) Idiots who love lies about Obama
3) Fox News Viewers

[DCKit]

10. Thanks for the ROFL!

I'm so gonna be watching FNC on December 20th... guaranteed to be apocalyptic smash-up.

[Wounded Bear]

11. The problem is....

most automated graphing programs will do that. They are typically programmed to accentuate the differences, not portray true relationships.

It is up to the presenter to reformat the graph in a way that displays the info accurately, or as in this case, present it in a way that influences one's audience.

[EnviroBat]

12. THIS HURTS MUH FREEEE DUMMMM!!!

[Major Nikon]

14. Here's something else Faux won't offer up

This is only a 4% increase on income that exceeds $388K.

So let's say someone made $400K. The effect of an additional 39.6% tax bracket would only be 4% on $12,000 worth of income, or $480. This really only affects people who have millions of dollars in yearly income.