Wonder Why the Country is Polarized? This Poll Explains A Lot

Research 2000 just completed a poll and the results are frightening. The poll is of self identified Republicans, not the baggers, so I'm sure if their numbers were added in the numbers would be even more disturbing. Click here for the full poll.

If you don't think the rhetoric of the Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh's of the world are affecting public opinion in this country, at least among their viewers and listeners, this poll should convince you that Beck, Limbaugh and other conservatives on the public airwaves are indeed dangerous to our democracy.

# 39 percent of Republicans believe Obama should be impeached, 29 percent are not sure, 32 percent said he should not be voted out of office.

# 36 percent of Republicans believe Obama was not born in the United States, 22 percent are not sure, 42 percent think he is a natural citizen.

# 31 percent of Republicans believe Obama is a "Racist who hates White people" -- the description once adopted by Fox News's Glenn Beck. 33 percent were not sure, and 36 percent said he was not a racist.

# 63 percent of Republicans think Obama is a socialist, 16 percent are not sure, 21 percent say he is not

# 24 percent of Republicans believe Obama wants "the terrorists to win," 33 percent aren't sure, 43 percent said he did not want the terrorist to win.

# 21 percent of Republicans believe ACORN stole the 2008 election, 55 percent are not sure, 24 percent said the community organizing group did not steal the election.

# 23 percent of Republicans believe that their state should secede from the United States, 19 percent aren't sure, 58 percent said no.

# 53 percent of Republicans said they believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than Obama.

Roger Ailes Called Out Over Beck Incitement

Roger Ailes, of Fox News, made a mistake yesterday, and he was exposed for the lying ideologue he is and the "news" station that he heads. Arianna Huffington and Paul Krugman were on the panel with him and Huffington went after Ailes on the language used on Glenn Beck's show and Ailes tried to defend Beck, whose language and theatrics are indefensible. In another exchange Ailes was called out for Fox "News" consistently broadcasting misinformation, such as in the health care reform coverage, by Paul Krugman, calling it a "government takeover" of the health care system.

Fox "News" is NOT a news organization. They are a propaganda unit for the Republican party. They need to be called out as often as possible for their misinformation and lies.

Fox "News" Should Lose Its License for This

Who knew Jon Stewart and his team at The Daily Show would become real investigative journalists. Last night Jon Stewart did a piece that catches Sean Hannity and his producers, while talking with Michelle Bachman about a recent "press conference", using footage of the crowd from the 9/12 rally, that had 60-70,000 people at it and show that footage while talking about the "press conference" from last week.

A real news organization just doesn't do things like that, and that's another reason why Fox is not a real news organization. They don't report real news. They are as much a fake news show as The Daily Show, only Jon Stewart does it by design. Fox "News" does it by design too, but the design is to mislead its viewers.