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Fox News Makes the Best Pie Chart. Ever.

It’s a sad indictment of the kind of garbage that Fox News and its ilk peddle that I’m not sure whether or not this is a genuine mistake, or an attempt to push the gullibility of its audience to new levels and convince them that ‘per cent’ actually means ‘out of 193’.

I don’t want to be perceived as unfairly criticising ‘the right’ or anything, and posting this picture looks like a cheap shot, but it raises an ugly point: that people on that side of the political spectrum seem to be living on another planet. Most of this kind of thing happens on the other side of the Atlantic as in this example, but this kind of sensationalist bullshit ‘journalism’ is becoming increasingly apparent in the UK too.

I don’t imagine for a minute that they are stupid enough to believe the things they say, sadly though, a lot of people are.

Unfortunately these are people who have cast aside the shackles of reason, which is a) why they believe the most outlandish arguments, and b) why you cannot change their minds.