Fox News VP Neil Cavuto admitted that all of his network’s pundits were all wrong about Romney defeating Obama because they based their predictions on the Wisconsin recall polls.
Here is the video:
On Imus In The Morning, Cavuto explained that all of the Fox News pundits were wrong about Romney defeating Obama because of the Wisconsin recall exit polls, “You were focusing on polls that a lot of people were focusing on the fact that they didn’t represent an adequate number of Republicans.” Imus told Cavuto that they did, and the Fox News VP then gave the basis for their belief that the polls were wrong, “Ok. Now it’s easy to be Nostradamus…Do you remember the time of the Wisconsin recall? The polls were dead even going into the final weekend. It turns out he won by five or six points, so there was a sentiment expressed that maybe there was something wrong these polls, and maybe they undercount Republicans.”
Fox News thought all of the national polls were wrong, and based their predictions of an overwhelming Romney victory on nothing more than the fact that pollsters were off the mark on the Wisconsin recall election. Instead of looking at what the data was telling them, Fox News and the rest of the right wing media dreamed up a reason for the polls to be wrong.
Hysterically, Cavuto went on to say that viewers should trust the predictions of Newt Gingrich, Dick Morris, Karl Rove, and rest of the Rupert’s crew because of their track record. (Cavuto conveniently ignored that the Fox’s track record is a laughable history of wildly inaccurate predictions.)
Cavuto and Fox looked for a reason for the polls to be wrong, and then converted their bogus reasoning into predictions of a big Romney victory. The ability to twist facts to fit their reality is one of the dominant traits of current right wing thought.
Just like when the intelligence didn’t justify invading Iraq but Bush and Cheney twisted the intel into a justification for war, the data didn’t justify a prediction of victory for Romney, so Fox News twisted the data until they got the result that they wanted.
The biggest problem facing conservatives and the Republican Party today isn’t President Obama’s reelection. Their biggest issue is the culture of systemic denial of reality and facts that they have built up around themselves. Until the right gets on the same page as the rest of the country, they will not win another national election.
The right’s Fox News fueled war on facts has pushed the Republican Party to the cusp of national irrelevance.
Fox News isn’t the solution. It’s a big part of their problem.
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Reynardine
Nov. 7th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
Fox is a huge part of the problem. I have never seen so much ignorance promulgated on so massive a scale.
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robyn ryan
Nov. 7th, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Has anyone considered that Fox might have ‘information’ about what voting numbers might be? Rove might have lost it because he suddenly realized that the fraud wasn’t going to happen – that he’d been duped.
Anonymous DID warn him not to tamper. Hmmm….:)
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KrisKringleKahn
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 5:41 am
Fox is a cancer on America. Fox, Rush, Beck, Hannity, and their ilk have caused more division in this country than Al Qaeda or any other outside enemy could have ever hoped for. WE ALL need to express our concerns to the appropriate government agencies and get these buffoons shut down. Freedom of speech and the press should not include hate speech that pits one American against another because of race, religion or political affiliation.
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KatzKids
Nov. 7th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Way to validate yourselves guys! Bwahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Your reasoning is as valid as your “news” and just as ridiculous. Hang your heads in shame Fox – oh wait – you have no shame.
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Maranon
Nov. 7th, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Did their glass ball had a crack on it?
Or is it that they do not believe in education, therefore the statistics and scientific methodology used to predic stuff, is not acceptable.
Maybe is best to use their belief system and acknowledge that:
It was god will to keep those crazy people out of the leadership!
Praise the lord and pass the margaritas
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Thomas Bishop
Nov. 7th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
If anything, this shows that reliance on the conservative echo chamber is not good reality testing.
Whenever Romney gets smugly decent, that’s cause for alarm, because — as noted yesterday, Romney acts meanly when he thinks he is losing. Romney acted ‘decently’ yesterday because his pollsters informed him – contrary to post-Sandy polling trends — that Obama’s onetime strength among independents in Wisconsin appeared to be neutralized, and that “independents” were siding with Romney at the polls in the key states of Ohio, Virginia, Florida and Wisconsin.
That proved to be very bad information. The nation dodged a bullet in avoiding Romney. Bad reality testing and a lack of critical analysis is never something we want to see in a commander-in-chief.
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Gee Jay
Nov. 7th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
When Fox and other GOP mouthpieces tried to discredit Nate Silver by describing him as effeminate and gay, I knew their internal polling was wrong. They wanted to bully Nate just like Limbaugh bullied Sandra Fluke. After all, anyone who believes in ideology over science will generally be wrong. Fivethirtyeight uses polling data in a scientific manner to determine what the trends are. The right wing pollsters don’t understand how science works so they depend too much on subjectivity and their own narrow opinions. Similarly, they don’t believe in climate change.
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laingirl
Nov. 7th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Maybe they’ll believe Nate Silver next time, but I doubt it. Their basing predictions on one state is beyond stupid. Republicans only listen to themselves or other Repubs; they need to get out more. The Wisconsin recall was a very special kind of election.
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Heidi A Wilkinson
Nov. 7th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Nate Silverman was dead on the money. Joe Scarbrough will be growing that mustache and pay $1000 to Nate Silverman’s charity.
But I told my mom last night, people who try to win based on lies and self gratification don’t win.
Mitt needs to take a lesson, be yourself, stop your lying. Lucky for you, you have a life you can go back to and you can continue to make money. Tell your boy Donald to give that $5 million to a charity regardless.
Koch Brothers, Sheldon Aldeson, Donald Trump, the people have spoken, money doesn’t win the day, our right to vote wins the day and that was the main message, you thought you could spend 2 billion dollars and have your miniorty/majority adgenda, but the majority spoke which is the Amercian people, we will not let you take this country without a fight.
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Cheryl
Nov. 7th, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Unbelievable. Faux News needs to get out of their bubble. They are the height of stupidity. They were so busy thrashing the President and didn’t even have common sense. They deserved just what they got.
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Gary Vaughn
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 12:42 am
Keep spinning guys. Gotta keep those low IQ and low info idiots happy. You will need them in the 2014 election.
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Ingrid Buxton
Nov. 9th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
I still wonder if there wasnt something fishy about the election returns from the recall.
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Doris~
Nov. 10th, 2012 at 10:39 am
The Repugs did to go to the school of fools and learn some rithmetic’
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Gilbert Okoye
Nov. 10th, 2012 at 11:04 am
The GOP and Fox News picked a few lines from Dr Goebelles book and twisted them to fit the american politics. The failure of the policy shows the Nazi propaganda machine was based on intelligence while the GOP was based on ignorance and pretense. When you allow men like Rush to speak on behalf of your party, you are actually digging your own grave. All the filthy and indignifying abuse heaped on Obama, which he endured without a fight, should be atoned for, or else!!!!!
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Anne
Nov. 11th, 2012 at 4:53 am
When the Republicans are told they are wrong about something, they tend to stoop to personal insults. It’s painfully obvious that they chose to ignore Nate Silver at their peril, and that they chose the Wisconsin recall results because they were favorable to a Republican. But it was head-shakingly stupid of them to use the results of an effort in just one of 50 states and try to apply them to the national election. It’s obvious that this was one of many straws they were grasping.
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