Most of us in the reality-based world still remember how the entire media dropped the ball during the run-up to the Iraq war. But, with Fox "News", the misinformation was deliberate and toxic. As the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA-University of Maryland)has pointed out,

"those who relied on [Fox News] were three times more likely than the next nearest network to hold all three misperceptions — about WMD in Iraq, Saddam Hussein was involved with 9/11, and foreign support for the U.S. position on the war in Iraq.

Fox News viewers would have done better, statistically speaking, if they had received no news at all and simply guessed whether the claims were accurate. Matters have clearly not improved."

The exact same pattern of deliberate misinformation has continued throughout the subsequent Congressional and Presidential elections and the current Health Care debate.

Mike Williams