Ignorance Is Fox News' Most Important Product

(C)onsider that on the most important news event of 2012, the election of the President of the United States, all the “experts” at Fox News got it wrong. Yes, all of the good folks at Fox News (more appropriately called “Bullshit Mountain News” by comedian Jon Stewart) got it wrong. Bill O’Reilly got it wrong. Sean Hannity got it wrong. Karl Rove got it wrong. Ann Coulter got it wrong.
Dick Morris predicted a Romney landslide, 325 Electoral College votes for Romney and but 213 for President Obama. If that difference constitutes a landslide, then it was Obama who actually won in a landslide. In the fact-based world, Obama actually won by a landslide, 332 to 206.
Newt Gingrich got it wrong. So did Steve Forbes, who told Greta that Romney was going to win by more than 5 points and 320 electoral votes. And, all along, the pitiful true believers who live in the conservative media bubble swallowed their bullshit – which explains their shock and dismay when the real world smacked them across the face....
Do you want an indicator that speaks volumes about Fox News? Simply compare the people who host the 9 p.m. shows for MSNBC and Fox. Rachel Maddow earned a degree from Stanford, won a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford and earned a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in politics from that university. Sean Hannity is a college dropout.
— Walter C. Uhler