On Friday, January 29, 2021 at 10:24:14 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-01-29 2:23 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > On 1/29/2021 10:18 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> It's pretty sad the way that some media sources lie. From what I see,
> >> Fox seems to be the worst. As recently as 2015 there were news reports
> >> about the percentage of Americans who thought that WMDs had been found
> >> after the invasion of Iraq. G Dubya admitted to the press that none
> >> had been found. At least one article broke it down by media source and
> >> those who listened to FOX were way more likely to believe the old lie.
> >
> > I don't think that proves the media source lies unless they continued
> > after it was admitted no WMDs found. It does show the average Fox
> > viewer blieves what they choose to rather than truth.
> >
> I am not sure how long the various media sources kept up stores about
> WMDs found, but I did come across a recent on in a right wing source. I
> just thought it was interesting that the largest percentages of people
> who believed that they had been found were those whose primary news
> source was Fox.
> > I have a friend, very intelligent, but watches too much Fox, OAN and
> > such. She says she does not trust anything in the NY Times. As
> > sensible and smart as she is with everything else, she is sucked into
> > the strong right wing political news. I avoid talking politics with her..
> >
> I have a friend who hangs out at the dog park. She is a smart, well
> educated and well travelled woman. She things Trump is wonderful and has
> done great things.

I know a couple of guys that are Trump supporters. I love those guys! Not because they are Trump supporters but because they're smarter and more accomplished than I and are always available to answer my questions about anything. I consider them to be an invaluable resource. We just avoid talking about you-know-who.
OTOH, I knew a couple of ladies that thought Hitler was a wonderful guy. Mostly, they said he was a pretty good dancer. Of course, those were some pretty loony broads. The kind you run and hide when you saw them coming.