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pokerfan

(27,677 posts)
Mon Mar 31, 2014, 10:16 PM Mar 2014

Lies, damned lies and Fox News' biased charts

Host Bill Hemmer introduced Obamacare critic Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) by showing the image below, showing that as of March 27th 6 million of the Obama Administration’s 7 million goal had signed up for insurance. But, contrary to what you might see in said graph, 7 million is not almost three times more than 6 million:



http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-airs-seriously-misleading-obamacare-graphic/
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Lies, damned lies and Fox News' biased charts (Original Post) pokerfan Mar 2014 OP
Fox should have included a column for what they were hoping for - zero. JEFF9K Mar 2014 #1
I'm surprised they even bothered to include numbers pokerfan Mar 2014 #2

pokerfan

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2. I'm surprised they even bothered to include numbers
Mon Mar 31, 2014, 11:11 PM
Mar 2014

Such transparent manipulation so I guess it's fortunate that they are so clumsy.

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