Hillary Clinton’s Fox News Problem
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Like much of the rest of Fox’s recent
coverage of Clinton, the impression made is that Clinton has
about three weeks before she will drop out of the race and
report to prison. |
Posted by Mark NC on August 21, 2015 at
11:13 pm. on
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This evening on
Fox News Shannon Bream, filling in for Megyn Kelly, did a
segment about how dismal Hillary Clinton’s future is now that
she her poll numbers have descended to unfathomable depths,
particularly with regard to favorability.
Like much of the rest of Fox’s recent
coverage of Clinton, the impression made is that Clinton has
about three weeks before she will drop out of the race and
report to prison. To open the segment Bream gleefully reported
that…
A new poll now
showing Clinton may be more disliked than she has been in
decades. As a brand new survey from CNN shows her unfavorability
rating is now at a whopping 53%. A number that Clinton has seen
just one other time in twenty-three years of polling.
What the “fair and balanced” propagandists
at Fox are leaving out is that Clinton’s favorable rating in the
CNN poll that they referenced is better than all of the
Republicans that were polled. Clinton scored 44% favorable. That
compares to Donald Trump at 36% and Jeb Bush at 34%. What’s
more, Clinton’s unfavorable rating is lower than her most likely
opponents. She pulled 53% while Trump and Bush were higher at
59% and 56% respectively.
Clinton has had the honor of being ranked
as the most admired woman in the world nineteen times in
Gallup’s annual survey. She received that honor the last
thirteen years in a row. It is not particularly surprising that
in an election year where seventeen Republican candidates are
bashing her relentlessly her public image might suffer. Add to
that the effect of the smear job that Fox engages in every day
and it would be a miracle if her numbers didn’t decline a bit.
Notwithstanding those assaults, Clinton is
still faring better than her GOP rivals who have had very little
mud thrown at them. She is still beating them in head-to-head
match-ups. And her support in the Democratic Party is
unwavering.
What Fox News is trying to do is project
their open disgust for her in the hopes that it will harm her
electoral prospects next year. That’s also why they keep
promoting Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. They obviously hate them
just as much as they hate her, but for the time being they are
happy to use them as wedges to create chaos for the Democrats.
If Clinton’s 53% unfavorable rating can be
characterized as “whopping” by Fox News, then what would they
call Trump’s 59% or Bush’s 56%? Of course the answer is that
they wouldn’t call it anything at all because they wouldn’t
devote a segment of a primetime program to their “favorability
problems.” In the Fox world everyone loves Republicans and they
always will win every election. At least that’s how they present
it to their dimwitted audience who are later shocked when they
lose. |
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