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Jon Stewart, Fox News & PolitiFact

Texas
By W. Gardner Selby
June 22, 2011

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart told the Fox News Channel on Sunday: “Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? … Fox viewers, consistently, every poll.”

That’s False, PolitiFact National determined.

Next, Stewart spent part of his latest program pointing out PolitiFact has found questionable several statements aired by the Fox News Channel — including two PolitiFact National lies of the year and a 2010 Pants-on-Fire statement about banishing Christmas from Texas textbooks.

Roll the video at right for what Stewart called his ascent of Mount Fib.

Our Sources

PolitiFact, Truth-O-Meter article, "Jon Stewart says those who watch Fox News are the 'most consistently misinformed media viewers," June 20, 2011

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