Here are two pieces of news that may seem unrelated, but aren’t. President Obama’s job approval rating has hit a four year high of 60% at the same time as Fox News’ ratings plummet to a 12 year low.
In January, Fox News has its worst prime time month in the key age 25-54 demographic since August 2001. Greta Van Susteren had her worst month ever on the network, and her show registered the lowest prime time ratings for 10 PM on Fox since July of 2008. While MSNBC’s ratings were up 9% in total viewers , Fox News registered their single worst day with viewers age 25-54 July of 2008.
Meanwhile, a new poll released today by ABC News/Washington Post revealed that President Obama’s favorability rating has reached its highest level since November 2009. Obama’s favorability is now at 60%, and has grown ten points since the summer. Obama now has more more people strongly in favor of him (39%) than strongly opposed (26%). The president has a 60% favorable rating with Independents, and a 68% favorable rating with moderates. The president also has a 66% with young adults, and middle/lower income people.
It is isn’t a coincidence that as approval of President Obama soars, Fox News’ ratings plummet.
The wave of change that was expected in 2009 appears to be arriving in 2013. Just in the past month, the country has moved to the left on gun control, immigration reform, and women in combat. The leftward shifts on gun control and immigration join the country’s shift left on taxes. Taxes, guns, and immigration have been three of the tent pole issues that kept the Republican coalition of evangelicals, fiscal conservatives, and libertarians united. In the past two months, the Republican Party has seen the nation move away from their positions on all of these issues.
The national shift left is also reflected in the cable news ratings. As with the results at the ballot box, the key demographic in cable news are people age 25-54. These viewers have been steadily fleeing Fox News for a while now, but their losses have grown from a trickle to a tidal wave. Like the Republican Party, Fox News is out of step with where a key demographic is right now.
More research would have to be done to determine if there is a direct causal link between Obama’s approval and Fox News’ ratings, but these two events taken together with the president’s landslide reelection and the nation’s policy shift left hint at a significant shift in the political winds. After the Bush years, the left is living a bit of dream right now. The Republican Party is in disarray. Fox News is on the decline, and a popular second term incumbent Democratic president is pushing a center/left policy agenda.
It may have taken a few years longer than some thought, but it looks like hope and change have finally come.
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Mike
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 10:52 am
Ive never watched fox news. Always was a CNN kinda guy for no particular reason other than that CNN seemed very unbiased in either direction. My uncle used to watch fox news particularly during 9/11 and I remembered fox news as the “flashy” news network, what with all the graphical oooh and aaaahs they used to dress up their broadcast, but I never really remembered them as being such a right wing propaganda machine.
During the presidential election, I kept hearing about how crazy fox news was, so I had to flip the channel and see for myself.
I sat there, slackjawed, for ten minutes and watched the most disgusting live “news” broadcast stylized attack on our president. The most biased news ive ever seen. The most hate filled, unproffessional, childish disgraces I have ever seen on tv. I couldnt stomach it long enough to get through the commercial break and watch the end of the segment.
Now, I turn to fox news occasionally to “see what the loonies” are barking about. When I watch fox now, I think to myself, “how can anyone take this seriously?” I laugh my ass off at the crazy shit they say, but then when I realise that around 1/3 of the country (or more) actually ascribe to those beliefs, it just troubles me deeply.
As for the presidents approval rating…
Woot! Great job Obama! Keep it up! :)
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Chris Moses
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 11:51 am
Funny you say that! I do the SAME thing. As the old saying goes: Keep your friends close, and your enemies CLOSER. That is the only way I can justify tuning into Bulls*it Mountain News, aka FOX! They are a clown show!
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bluerose
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 12:19 pm
Fox News still suffering from Romnesia.
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Rita Nicholson
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 12:21 pm
I used to watch Fox News to get another perspective, but turned it off as it is such biased, nasty piece of work comprised of individuals who are really quite soulless. I’ve watched as they parade their “so called experts” in front of the cameras sounded just like Rush Limbaugh. It is my belief that they offer nothing constructive to move our country forward in a positive direction.
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Nancy
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 12:53 pm
Fox News was sued for firing an employee at a local FL affiliate for refusing to lie. They argued in court they have NO LEGAL OBLIGATION TO TELL TBE TRUTH!! Guess what, they WON!!
I’d sooner watch C-SPAN with an empty chamber! Fox is not news, but rather obnoxious commentary. Bill O said in public, on the View, I’m not news, I’m commentary. Bias, blustering, with not one iota of truth. Why would anybody tune in?
I couldn’t even tell you which of my hundreds of channels they air on. BOROWITZ’S satire is more news worthy!
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Nancy
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 12:55 pm
The*** (iPad, stop the nonsense)
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robyn ryan
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 1:31 pm
Looks like those ‘free market remedies’ they love are working!
The market for willful stupid is disappearing.
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TZONE
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 12:59 pm
This is just BS! Langer research and associates conducted this polling. Not Gallop, not Rasmussen? Why? Rasmussen shows a -6 approval rating for Obama. Gallop released a state by state poll showing that Obama’s biggest approval came from Hawaii and Washington DC. But nearly every swing state showed only 3 in 10 approved of Obama. 3 in 10! I voted for Obama in the first election and now I honestly wish I hadn’t. Under Obama’s watch 3 close friends of mine have lost their businesses! They didn’t do that Obama did. I wish it was illegal for the media to receive money from politicians with Liberal agenda’s. MSNBC, CNN and even ABC disgust me now. I’m sorry but it has to be said, wake up America! OBAMA is a nice man but a REALLY BAD PRESIDENT! As far as Fox is concerned… Just another media giant with its own agenda. What ever happened to reporting news with no opinions given and letting people decide for themselves?
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djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 1:09 pm
“Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand.” ~-Atticus Finch, “To Kill a Mockingbird”
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Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 1:18 pm
Well thats your opinion. In my area in the industrial park 7 out of 11 factories closed under Bush. 750,000 a month were losing jobs the day Obama took office.
I am not sure where you are getting the 3 of 10 numbers, but hey, Obama got elected and proves those numbers wrong.
Next to Bush, Obama is a presidential God
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UncaJoe
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 8:59 pm
The DOW is at a near record high, housing prices are recovering in the areas most affected by the bubble bursting, 192,000 new private sector jobs added in January (9.7% greater than Wall St. predictions), initiating gun violence and immigration reform, etc.
So, what could have President Obama accomplished without all the obstructionism? It sure makes one wonder.
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djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 9:04 pm
Please let me use this PRETTY PLEASE
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UncaJoe
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 9:47 pm
tis’ yours, do with it as you please. ;-)
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Jamie Carter
Feb. 5th, 2013 at 4:21 pm
They can’t stand his awesomeness lol and they know hes the peoples champion :)
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ktrav
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 1:33 pm
Yeah, that ’3 out of 10′ line is impossible. Obama wouldn’t have won re-election if that were true. Sounds like more Fox ‘News’ dishonesty.
And if your friends lost their business it was due to the economic conditions that Bush created. Blaming Obama for that is ludicrous.
The problem with Fox is that they’ve had to continually ratchet up the crazy in the past to keep people interested. Now they’ve gone too far in the crazy direction and the only ones watching are crazies themselves. Moderate voters have abandoned them.
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fedded-up
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 1:52 pm
I must thank you for announcing at the outset that your posting was gonna be “just BS!” You were so right. It is.
There was a HUGE lesson given out just a couple of months ago…when a poll result is obviously skewed erroneously and flies in the face of reason, you really shouldn’t put much stock in it. If “every swing state” polled the way you’re reporting, Obama would not have won re-election.
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mjh
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 4:04 pm
“Under Obama’s watch 3 close friends of mine have lost their businesses! They didn’t do that Obama did.”
I’m sorry — unless President Obama actually ran your friends’ businesses hands-on, day-to-day, he had nothing to do with their losses. It’s called the “free market.”
So much for that “personal responsibility” rightwingers are always crowing about …
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deb
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 12:43 am
Boy, is that ever the truth! Personal responsibility!
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TS
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 7:19 pm
When things go right: I did it all by myself!
When things go wrong: The evil government screwed me over!
Just the typical conservative republican philosophy: privatize the profits and socialize the losses.
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amy
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 9:28 am
I work in collections, and the only people who blame others for their situation are the ones who hate Obama and blame the government for their troubles (it’s always part of the rant during which they usually also call me names). Last week someone told me they can’t pay their December mortgage bill because of “obama’s new payroll tax” – she was not pleased when I told her that Obama had given her a 2-year holiday from a 2% payroll tax that was put in place by the Republican Congress and that the only way the end of that could make it impossible to make her payment would be if she made over 100,000 per month. Math is really tough for right-wing whiners.
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majii
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 4:40 pm
You’re an uninformed little individual, aren’t you? It’s not President Obama’s fault that your friends didn’t receive any help for their businesses, it’s the fault of the republicans in Congress who refused to allow any of the president’s bills to help small business owners receive a vote!
*’Senate Republicans Block Small Business Aid Bill’
By Sam Gustin
Posted 4:00AM 07/30/10
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/07/30/senate-republicans-block-small-business-aid-bill/
*’GOP Blocks Senate Small-Business Tax Cut Bill’
By Humberto Sanchez and Emily Pierce-Roll Call Staff-July 12, 2012, 3:24 p.m.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/gop_blocks_senate_small_business_tax_cut_bill-216100-1.html
*’Amid tax posturing, Senate GOP blocks bill to encourage small business hiring’
By Rosalind S. Helderman,July 12, 2012
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-07-12/politics/35486244_1_bush-tax-tax-cuts-senate-gop
*’Updated List of Bills The Republicans Have Blocked’
by GuitarPlayer CYA on 12/22/2012 Posted April 04, 2012
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/updated-list-of-bills-the-republicans-have-blocked/question-2562781/?link=ibaf&q=reppublicans%20block%20small%20business%20bills
I’m a retired high school American History, economics, and history teacher, and I’m still trying to figure out why millions of Americans blame a president when Congress doesn’t do its’ job. The job of passing legislation is granted to Congress by the Constitution. Too many Americans seem to think that the president is a dictator and/or that he is responsible for running the executive and legislative branches. Nope, nope, nope–not according to the Constitution. If this were true the Constitution wouldn’t contain separation of power, checks and balances, and three branches of government. Americans need to stop talking about the Constitution and begin to read and study it. If more Americans actually knew and understood our federal government, they’d stop allowing our…
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majii
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 4:47 pm
Cont’d
…they’d stop allowing our congress-members to collect their nice salaries and benefits packages while they refuse to fulfill their constitutional duties. If we allow them to do this, we shouldn’t listen to one word they have to say about some Americans being “freeloaders” or say that they “are looking for the government to give them something,” because every time they collect a salary and use a benefit provided by our tax dollars, and don’t do their jobs, its means they’re sucking off the government teat and are the people they’re describing when they disparage other Americans.
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Boston123
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 1:08 pm
Good point. People should continue not only to look for information, but independent analysis which is harder to obtain. One of the Fox “loonies” as some call them, Hannity, presented last friday Jan 25th a special call “Boomtown” about Government and Lobbyists in D.C. Very interesting. I voted for the President but one of his promises was that there were not going to be room on his government for lobbyist….i wonder what happened?
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Donna
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 8:30 pm
Excellent comment, and totally true. These extremists who crow about the constitution interpret it like they interpret their bible. (Cherry picking and misinterpreting).
They believe this propaganda from Fox, because that’s the kind of tripe they enjoy listening to. My family are smart people and should know better. Yet, they listen to this garbage because they are racist and bigots and want someone to stoke their hatred.
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Brent Slensker
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 11:47 pm
Rasmussen is about as reliable as a broken clock…Well not quite.
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ken
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 2:09 pm
Atleast a broken clock is right twice per day.
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Mike
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 8:30 am
What is a – 6 approval?
Wut are you smoking?
Its one thing to claim a poll could be slightly off.
It amazes me however that anyone can believe obamas approval rating could somehow be below the 51 percent popular vote he received just three months ago.
Wooosh!
Thats the sound of common sense going right over your head.
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jason fisch
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 4:04 pm
come out of the bubble son, and scott rassmussen polls are obviously biased toward the right. by the way how accurate were those guys with their presidential polling. they sure had romney convinced
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Lori
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 2:36 am
Did the president take control of your friend’s businesses, that made them lose it?? Did he run the day to day operations?? NO. Obama inherited an already failing economy from BUSH. We were in a recession when he left office. Bush was spending millions of dollars every month in Iraq!! He was still spending that money in Iraq years after we captured Saddam and he was executed!! Mission Accomplished…..Let’s go to Afghanistan and find Bin Laden….he didn’t do it, Obama did!! Know anyone serving over in Afghanistan?? They;ll be home real soon….because of….OBAMA!! Keep watching FOX News, and you’ll be just as disillusioned as the rest of the Republican party!!
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Lorne
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 9:45 am
Please do tell me how someone can receive a -6 approval rating? These are percentage numbers. It can only go from 0 to 100. Are there dead people being polled? Its the same thing as saying 120% or 200%. Its called an exaggeration so do consider the sources you have are wrong. I know this has been said already but if this were anywhere close to being true, Obama would not have won.
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 9:49 am
Math not your strong point?
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Declanp
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 4:30 pm
Rasmussen also had Romney winning in a landslide. Biased much?
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clee
Feb. 2nd, 2013 at 11:20 am
You’re kidding, right? Rassmussen? They are continually incorrect!! They NEVER get any numbers right… haven’t you ever noticed that? Obama is doing a great job as Pres… despite the hateful, obstructionist GOP congress people. Can you imagine what could have been accomplished if the conservative haters of women, minorities and non Christians would step the hell down and let us grow as a diverse country? The old, white, conservative man is no longer the majority. THANK GOD. Obama UP! Fox DOWN! Sweet.
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Karen
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 1:07 pm
Spin it anyway you want…but the truth is that a lot of
people like myself have chosen not to watch the news
after this last election. Ingnorance is bliss.
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Brian Taylor
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 1:34 pm
Ahhh the old head in the sand routine, enjoy being left behind by the world that you chose to ignore. I hope when you need it, it chooses to ignore you as well.
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mjh
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 4:06 pm
More like the old head up the ass routine . . .
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Ex-Dominionist
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 4:28 pm
That’s strange.
You don’t seem all that blissful, but I’ll believe the “ignorance” part.
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Cindy
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 4:34 pm
Karen, is this because your “side” lost and so you think things will or are going badly? What will it take for you to know when things are going well? When somebody at Fox News says so? Sorry, honey, but there comes a time when it might be a good idea to reexamine your beliefs.
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djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 4:46 pm
I would say STOP MAKING SENSE but I fear that would go over tzone head to
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majii
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 4:57 pm
I read a report on Crooks and Liars last week, Cindy, that showed that for some reason, southern whites and fundamentalists think that things will get worse over the next five years. Where this comes from in an obvious period of slow economic recovery could only be from RW media. Fox, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Alex Jones, Drudge, etc, have made a fortune over the last four years peddling lies, fear, conspiracy theories and propaganda. I wasn’t surprised when I read after the election that although Romney spent millions meant to create a real-time way to contact voters on election day, most of the consultants made hundreds of thousands of dollars and delivered almost nothing. The information I read said that these consultants’ main interest was in making fast money. Romney’s campaign was a consultant’s paradise, and this is the man that 47.1% of the American voters thought was the answer to our fiscal problems! Not by a long shot.
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Cindy
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 5:05 pm
Majii, I hear you! I live in the South so I know of what you speak. My hair stylist is a liberal and we have tokeep our voices down in the shop! But maybe, just maybe, some folks will reexamine their ideologies. Don’t the low Fox rankings say something? And I don’t hear much from the right at the moment. It’s almost, I said “almost” hard to find things to pick on them for at the moment on FB! The Republicans were even told to stop talking about rape….
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Ashwin
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 9:54 pm
Cindy, we have a saying that goes
“Don’t read a Bible in front of a donkey, he’ll never understand it”
Let Karen be ignorant
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Brent Slensker
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 11:49 pm
Karen- Look up “cognitive dissonance”.
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april
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 12:41 am
No Karen ignorance is not bliss, it’s ignorant and its also the way laws like “personhood” and UltraSound requirements got passed. It is also how the way we count elector votes could be changed making a fair election impossible.So please do not continue to glow in your “ignorance” and become aware,
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jason fisch
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 4:17 pm
im confused. “alot of people turned off the news after the election”thats what lower ratings mean. where’s the spin? well at least you’ll be more informed that any fox viewer
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carolyn sumners
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 1:11 pm
Are more people really coming to their senses? This is the change that I hope for.
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David
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 1:24 pm
Is anyone surprised about fox look who own and controls it. News corp which is owned by r murdock and equal partner is saudi arabia royal family!! Divide and conquer!!
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Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 1:29 pm
The sheik in Saudi Arabia only owns about 7% of the empire. Not an equal partner
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Ex-Dominionist
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 2:25 pm
I had read that Al-Waleed bin Talal, the Saudi Prince, IS the third largest stockholder.
Perhaps a 7% share is enough to qualify.
Besides Murdoch, you have Roger Ailes, a man who loved Richard Nixon, and swore, years ago, to make destroying Democrats and Liberals his number one priority, since they shamed his Beloved.
*Ailes* is the one with the most evil agenda there at Fox. Murdoch just loves money, and, therefore can be reasoned with.
Ailes is a creepy old ideologue with an ax to grind … and a country to destroy … so he can replace it with a Corporate Utopia (aka Fascism).
He also looks a great deal like Jabba the Hutt. Not as fat as Rush, but his face, like Jabba’s, appears to have melted.
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majii
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 5:04 pm
Roger Ailes is a also a paranoid freak. I read on Media Matters that he is so paranoid that he has an armed guard outside his office at Fox and everywhere he goes. I guess when you know you’re a ratf*cking b*stard, you expect others to be the same as yourself. Little does he know that I’m one of millions who wouldn’t touch him with a 10,000′ pole. If I saw him on heading toward me on the same sidewalk, I’d cross the street to the other sidewalk for fear of being contaminated with his evil and paranoia.
‘Traveling With Roger Ailes Is ‘Like a Scene Straight Out of 24’
‘Ailes is certain that he’s a top target of Al Qaeda terrorists. “You know, they’re coming to get me,” he tells friends. “I’m fully prepared. I’ve taken care of it.” (Ailes, who was once arrested for carrying an illegal handgun in Central Park, now carries a licensed weapon.) Inside his blast-resistant office at Fox News headquarters, Ailes keeps a monitor on his desk that allows him to view any activity outside his closed door. Once, after observing a dark-skinned man in what Ailes perceived to be Muslim garb, he put Fox News on lockdown. “What the hell!” Ailes shouted. “This guy could be bombing me!” The suspected terrorist turned out to be a janitor. “Roger tore up the whole floor,” recalls a source close to Ailes. “He has a personal paranoia about people who are Muslim – which is consistent with the ideology of his network.”
Or maybe he’s just afraid the Republican Party will want to get revenge on him for what he’s done to them.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2011/05/traveling_with_roger_ailes_is.html
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Bentley
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 7:04 am
David,
It may be that I’m mistaken, but your comment seems to pander to Islamaphobia. Rather ironically, that same technique is very often employed by Fux VIews.
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Doris ~
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 2:05 pm
Oust the TGOP…save our country!
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Ex-Dominionist
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 2:21 pm
Fox News!!
All those “Go, Wolverines!” rebels adore it and think it is the Only Station That Tells the Truth. They will not listen to *anything* that comes from *anywhere* else.
Their watchers all have this fantasy that the government needs to be violently overthrown. With lies and exaggeration, Roger Ailes’ Propaganda Station whips them into fear and fury.
They think that, if they manage this little Civil War, they will have more freedom and their prosperity will return.
They do not understand that they are the dupes of Ailes’ scheme to raise up an army of idiots to attack Liberals and our legitimate government, and turn this country over to the Corporations, never to the People.
Should this Idiots’ Coup succeed, they will NOT be rewarded; they will NOT be freer; they will NOT be more prosperous.
They will then be, like the rest of us, just shit on the 1%’s shoe, as the 1% will not need them anymore.
And we will all be living in a perfect Feudal/Fascist Dystopia for the 99%; but a beautiful Utopia for the 1%.
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David Shane
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 4:19 pm
Fox News: “Unfair & Biased.”
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charlie
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 6:32 pm
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djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 6:38 pm
I think gallup need to reboot their computer models
Romney 49%, Obama 48% in Gallup’s Final Election Survey
http://www.gallup.com/poll/158519/romney-obama-gallup-final-election-survey.aspx
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majii
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 7:13 pm
You know if some companies like ABC News broke their long time ties to Gallup, something is wrong with their polling. After the election, polling companies were ranked, and Gallup came out near the bottom. I think it is because when PBO’s poll numbers didn’t sink below 47%, even though the economy was bad, one of its’ bigwigs expressed “extreme” concern about it. After that, the president’s poll numbers at Gallup plunged, and Romney’s increased.
‘NATE SILVER: Here’s The Truth About That Gallup Poll That Shows A Huge Lead For Mitt Romney’
Joe Weisenthal
“Silver’s post is broken down into two parts. The first is a technical discussion of how Gallup fits into his own model (which still gives Obama a 70 percent chance of winning the election). The second part talks about Gallup’s reliability.
The basic gist is twofold. One, when Gallup is far apart form other polls, Gallup is usually wrong. The second is that Gallup’s history of Presidential tracking is very odd, and prone to huge swings that don’t show up in the results of other pollsters.
Here are a few examples he cites:
*In 2008, Gallup put Obama 11 points ahead of McCain on election eve. Other polls averaged an Obama lead of 7 points. The other polls were correct.
*In 2000, Gallup put George W. Bush a stunning 16 points ahead of Al Gore in August.
*Then later in 2000, in September, it put Al Gore up by 10 points.
*Then in October 2000, George W. Bush was back up by 13 points. No other pollster had swings remotely this wild.
*In 1996 at one point, Bill Clinton was up by 25 points over Bob Dole. And that was just 4 days apart from Clinton’s 9-point lead. A ridiculous swing.
Bottom line: Gallup swings wildly and it frequently has results not in line with other pollsters.”
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/nate-silver-on-the-gallup-poll-showing-huge
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charlie
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 7:29 pm
Okay, here, pick a poll…any poll. No one has the presidents job approval at 60%.
http://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
And trust me, I’m hoping for the day I can add my name to the list of those that approve of his job performance.
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djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 7:44 pm
Charlie lets not nitpick over polls.Can we agree on this “Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand.” ~-Atticus Finch, “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Thats the second time today I have use that.All we have to do is look at the facts. Stock Market up 67%http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/10/21/a_booming_stock_market_under_obama.html
Oil Production highest in over 20 yearshttp://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2012/12/18/the-energy-sector-under-president-obama-ignore-the-drama-big-oil-will-do-just-fine/
You seem reasonable now can you honestly say we are worse off today than 6 years ago?I think not.There will always be haters of course his approval is not 60% but to nitpick between that an likeability is grasping at straws
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charlie
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 8:50 pm
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djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 9:01 pm
You right but seeing the post that dont make it on here one wonders about people motivations.Maybe I should ask limbaugh and fox if I am wrong
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charlie
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 9:22 pm
Yes, I’m sure you see it all…but I don’t for one minute believe the vast majority of Mr. Obama’s critics are motivated by bigotry. I know there are plenty like me that would love nothing more than to see him as a great American president.
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djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 9:44 pm
Sorry Unca joe but you get lazy after dealing with knuckleheads all day.Not you Charlie
The DOW is at a near record high, housing prices are recovering in the areas most affected by the bubble bursting, 192,000 new private sector jobs added in January (9.7% greater than Wall St. predictions), initiating gun violence and immigration reform, etc.
So, what could have President Obama accomplished without all the obstructionism? It sure makes one wonder.
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rhoneyman
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 5:50 am
realclearpolitics site has not been updated with the abc poll cited in this column. your link is out-of-date and irrelevant to the discussion.
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charlie
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 11:19 am
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 9:44 pm
Lost power last night…ha! that’s always fun.
I’m looking for good news too, dj. It seems the housing trend in 2012 provided the best reason for a bit of optimism going forward. Job numbers are always flighty so I’ll do the wait and see before I get too excited about that. And the DOW? Like I said above, Bernanke has probably been playing around with the market a bit too much…and so it may not be the indicator it once was.
Oy, and don’t get me started on the gun control/immigration thing going on right now. All of Washington has their priorities screwed up again… if anyone cares what I think.
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rhoneyman
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 5:50 am
I don’t believe they will include this poll. This one, like I said, is based on “personal popularity”. RCP is a compilation of “job approval” polls. Different questions entirely.
I gotta go guys…see ya soon.
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djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 11:21 am
I care
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KenSanDiego
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 7:26 pm
Fox on election night was the best programming on television. Never seen so much egg on so many faces.
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ken
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 2:35 pm
I actually watched fox on election night because i want to see them report unbiased news for once. haha
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Anne
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 9:34 pm
The best thing would be for this so-called news outlet to fade into well-deserved oblivion. I tried watching them for 2 weeks a few years ago, and after a while I had to stop. The non-stop negativity absolutely turned my stomach. I agree, it WAS funny to watch them in meltdown mode last November 6th when the president won re-election. They were part of the machinery in place that was supposed to ensure he was a one-term president.
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LookingForward
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 12:31 am
It’s a joke among my friends if you want to get depressed…Just turn it to the Fox Channel ….they are a doom an gloom Channel. Always angry, bitter, hating life , and wishing the economy will tank! Hannity is so angry his veins pop as he yells his Guests down while slandering our President!
Make sure you turn to fox for accurate news just like election night……How can they still be on the air? That’s beyond me…..
Proud of our President….we stand with you, beside you, behind you….where ever you need us to be.
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april
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 12:35 am
First Guiding Light, then all My Children and now Fox News. I guess all “soap operas” some day must come to an end. To bad they don’t qualify for “reality TV” they may have a future.
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cindileaningforward
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 2:26 am
WONDERFULL……. WONDERFULL…. this has been the best reading I’ve read lately…. so glad to hear from people that believe in president Obama….. and know that congress is the real problem!¡ LOVE LOVE LOVE IT…
THANK YOU!!!
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FauxPalin
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 2:50 am
One could not pay $$$ me to watch Fox News for all the haters and liars on that channel.
What a great day it is to see Fox’s ratings fall.
The best of all. Pres.O’s ratings. Hallelujah!
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Colin
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 7:51 am
Watching fox news is kind of like having your face lit on fire, then extinguished with a bicycle chain.
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Josh
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 7:56 am
It serves Fox News right.Keep soaring higher and higher Mr. President!
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Dan
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 8:20 am
It seems people believe FOX NEWS is the only insane news network. Has anybody ever watched the tactics of MSNBC? Before the election they campaigned 24/7 for Obama and are still at it today. You would think the election had not taken place.
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jason fisch
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 5:05 pm
you know its funny how people on your side of the argument always tend to equally distribute blame for something. i watch msnbc and find your statement factually incorrect. please show me one instance of mindless factually absent “campaigning” from anyone on msnbc. it should be easy since they did it 24/7 and are still doing it today. what you are confusing is facts that show the party and message that you ascribe to are out dated, overtly racist, and negatively affect 98% of Americans. their polices have been proven not to work and their top representatives have zero compassion for the poor, women’s rights, minorities, organized workers, the sick or the old.
apparently by your reasoning; logic, compassion the truth, empathy and equality are all liberally biased.
for someone who probably claims to love america you sure do seem to hate amreicans
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PeaceOfMind
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 10:07 am
What pisses me off is when I take my kid to a certain “Emergency Center”, I immediately get sick to my stomach knowing that what greets me is Faux News all over the place.
They conveniently placed the televisions at all angles,so you don’t have any choice but to see this crap! Try reading, it doesn’t work, because you hear those people barking at you all the time uugh..
I personally believe that Faux News is paying them for having them on 24/7. I feel sorry for the workkers who have to go through this everyday!
Needless to say, I don’t go there anymore – if push come to shove, I send my husband :)
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Matthew
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 10:41 am
It’s coming! We will be called United Socialist States of America.
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Ray
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 4:26 pm
Matthew, if you don’t like the direction the country is going, don’t let the border hit you on the way out.
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Matthew
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 10:44 am
Fox News is the best news cable show still. Hannity still though needs some work.
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Andrew
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 10:39 pm
Hummm where to start with this one . . . I guess just a solid NO should do just fine. Uh yep, that pretty much covers it.
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Ray
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 4:25 pm
You don’t have to say anything Andrew. Most of us know a troll (like Andrew) when we see them.
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Rusty
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 1:12 pm
Here are some other News Media we should ignore as it is run by the same people and they spread havoc all over the world.I feel that the association with the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Queda is a National threat.It is my belief they want to start a civil war over here just like we have done over there. Boycott them all. They are into far more than just our media. It may be of interest they are also in the banking business and have recieved bail outs from us.Why are we giving our tax dollars to these non americans? Is anyone else concerned about this?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_Corporation
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Gregory
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 2:33 pm
I watch MSNBC on a regular basis and absolutely love their evening lineup. I’ve tried to turn to ‘Fixed commentary’ just to hear some other perspective. They don’t have one! All they do is whine and attack President Obama and anyone else from the Democrats. They ARE the voice of the right. They both are rapidly becoming NOTHING! The last time I will ever tune into them was when they accused Hillary Clinton of faking her illness. Keep up the great job Rev.Al, Chris, Ed, Rachel, and Lawrence! And especially President Barack Obama!
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Sue Ann Todhunter
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 7:08 pm
When I posted this on Facebook, a friend sent me this link (which I hope isn’t true, but don’t know how to counter — help!)…http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/01/29/fox-news-channel-is-again-top-rated-cable-news-network-for-the-month-of-january/167281/comment-page-2/#comment-1375320
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Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 7:14 pm
Looks like thats right. Not much counter to it
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skinner
Feb. 2nd, 2013 at 4:08 am
You must understand that fox news is viewed by both sides, where as msnbc and cnn is viewed by democrats. this is why republicans can continuously by fed bull and biased junk and continue to believe it. Even considering this, the total for msnbc and cnn come close to fox. Democrats look at fox to see what junk is being fed to the blind side of our country.
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djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 7:21 pm
I checked and they seem to have won the week.Look on the bright side they lost and President Obama was no a one term President
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Ray
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 4:22 pm
You can counter with the fact that those numbers are based on total Fox viewership, not just their news. Even I watch a lot of shows on Fox and even most of their news stories are fine. It’s only their political news that makes them the single most biased news agency on the planet. (and the reason they’re losing viewership)
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Jo
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 7:42 pm
I am looking forward to 8 years of Hillary and 8 years of Cory Booker.
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Jack Bauer
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 9:20 pm
Fox News sinks to new low? Yet it is still the highest rated cable news network by FAR. The other cable news networks have a long way to go before they catch up in the ratings especially in the primetime slot.
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Ray
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Too bad those numbers are based on total programming and not just the news. Fox has quite a few popular shows on TV which have nothing to do with their news. THAT is why they still rank high in total viewership. Even most of Fox’s news stories are fine, it’s only their political news that makes them the single most biased news agency on the planet.
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Brett
Jan. 31st, 2013 at 10:22 pm
I think a commentator on CNN said it best on election night!
“Republicans are Madmen live in a Modern Family World!”
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Lori
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 2:20 am
I, personaly,cannot stand Fox News. That channel is so completely pro-Republican!! They were totally pro-Romney during the campaign!! I thought news channels were supposed to be objective!! As a volunteer for the Obama campgain in 2012……to Fox News: HE WON!! GET OVER IT!!!
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sarah
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 10:28 am
The difference between Fox and MSNBC is that MSNBC don’t try and pretend that they are not leaning to one side. Rachel,freaquently calls herself a liberal on her show, Lawrence is a self proclaimed socialist. You know that they are leaning or running left, and yet they still blast the President when they don’t think he is being liberal enough and they give (when given a chance) conservatives a chance to argue their point. On Fox the claim to be “fair and balanced” when they lean or run to the right. In Canada Fox News is considered an entertainment channel not a news channel and so you have to pay to get it.
Look if you are a channel that swings to the right, fine ok go for it, but please don’t pretend to be fair and balanced.
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J Bartram
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 11:44 am
I try to find news that is as impartial as possible. While I do recognize that CNN, MSNBC, NPR, NBC and perhaps others are skewed in favor of liberal views and lean in support of the POTUS, they don’t seem as extreme as FOX News is. I’ve never seen a news source dedicated so blatently against a standpoint or office as this one. It compromises my trust in a fundamental value important to the news… The unvarnished truth communicated in a responsible manner. I now ignore them as I do the rantings of men on soap-boxes in the streets of the city shouting “The sky is falling, the sky is falling”.
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That Guy
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 3:40 pm
Hmmm,
Maybe all yall should look at the raw numbers on viewership.
In Jan 2013, Fox had more viewers than MSNBC and CNN…..combined.
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Hmmmmm maybe you should take reading comprehension 101. Fox’s ratings are down to a 12 year low. No one said Fox’s not still the leader, but I will repeat for your complete understanding, Fox news ratings are down to a 12 year low.
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Susan Levine
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 3:47 pm
It’s about time that Fox’s ratings went down, down and down.
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Misty
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 4:14 pm
You forgot to mention that even though some numbers may be down slightly, they are still WAY ahead in numbers over everyone else (as in you would have to add the other networks together to even be in the same league) FNC is Fox
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/01/31/cable-news-ratings-for-wednesday-january-30-2013/167445/
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 4:18 pm
the point is that they are down to a 12 year low and ratings. Not that they are or are not still ahead of everyone.
MSNBC is the only network that is gaining. During the elections and after, Rachel Maddow was routinely beating Sean I can’t stop lying Hannity. She is not now but she’s not that far away.
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Steve Crosmer
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 4:33 pm
TV is not the only place to get your news from, especially when they repeat the same things over and over.Glad I kept my TV off, except for sports and weather.
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Deirdre
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 6:59 pm
How about instead of picking a poll or a news channel or a poll we poll we pick an election…let say an election that happened in November of 2012. Can we determine from the results of that election that Obama’s approval ratings are at least OK?
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Rob
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 8:24 pm
It will all change in 6 months. The Fed has propped up the economy with funny money and quantitative easing. The smoke and mirrors only last for so long – that’s why there was a real estate bubble, a tech bubble, etc. Obama, as much as I respect the man, has been kicking the can down the road.
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Wenette Tot;h
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 9:42 pm
Yep…it just may have something to do with people FINALLY realizing that Fox News is and always has been biased, contrived crap.
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Frank
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 10:06 pm
Looks like Obama’s karma just ran over Fox News’ dogma!!!
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djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 10:12 pm
In order to prevent serious injury, please make sure you are smarter than the equipment you are about to use………
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 10:18 pm
Yes, and? No one disputes that. The fact is its losing viewers and is down to a 12 year low in ratings
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 1st, 2013 at 10:36 pm
I think its “hire”
You need those new teachers
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Douglas Kruse
Feb. 2nd, 2013 at 8:36 am
Prolly not causal, but correlated.
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