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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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From: tejek12/8/2009 1:51:52 PM
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Ooops, they did it again

by Jed Lewison

Dec 08, 2009 at 09:30:08 AM PST

Poor Fox, always having those problems with on-screen graphics. Today's "Fair & Balanced" snafu: During President Obama's speech on jobs, he said that at least $200 billion had been saved from the TARP program, savings that he plans to use to help fund his new job creation initiatives.

A few minutes later, Fox took that $200 billion figure and lopped off the zeros, reporting it as a $2 billion savings in their on-screen graphic, understating the President's comments by $198 billion.

[see video]

Update (9:39AM): Here's another "Fair & Balanced" slip by Fox in which they claim 120% of the public is skeptical of global warming science. Now that's the definition

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