visagrunt wrote:
Word of advice: Listening to Rush Limbaugh and watching Fox News is not research.

When you can backtrack Limbaugh and Fox News reporting to the original source and can verify from that source (or usually sources) that they are reporting accurately based on the original source, then I hate to break it to you what they say then has credibility.
The people that have no credibility are media outlets on the left.
Does 2004's Memogate mean anything to you?
Okay I'll give you a refresher, CBS News used forged documents to try to smear President George W. Bush. I can say with certainty the documents were forged because it used a font style that didn't exist at the time these documents were supposedly made and had variable space typing which is only found on modern computers. CBS News continued to try to vouch for the authenticity of these documents and tried to keep it so that people couldn't view these documents for themselves and make their own determination. In the end however, they were forced to admit they couldn't verify the authenticity and they still kept claiming the story was true.
I'm recalling the incident entirely from memory btw.
2006
Media outlets involved: Reuters. AP, New York Times, CBS, BBC, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, PBS... Also included whatever Canadian outlets you have.
Used Doctored Photos to Accuse Israelis during the Israeli/Lebannon conflict of war crimes. Some of these photos were so blatently doctored that I could do a better job in 5 minutes.
Fox News was one of the few places that did not use those photos and in fact had a field day humiliating the other networks. Apparently the Fox News tech staff took one look at the pictures and thought it was a kind of sick joke.
2008
Media worshipping Barack Obama and not vetting him at all. They instead proceed to conduct witch hunts attacking Sarah Palin. It is also found out later that reporters were also in some cases coordinating with the Obama campaign to attack Palin.
Additionally, the New York Times ended up being sued (and they lost the suit) by a woman they claimed was having an affair with Senator John McCain. It goes without saying the story was bogus.
2009-2010+
Attacking the teaparty and constantly trying to claim they are racists or dangerous to this country. Any smear tactic they could think of they tried.
Journ'O'list is uncovered, reporters from Politico, Huffington Post, etc. are among the people named whom were coordinating attacks on Palin (they still have their jobs btw)
2010
Reports up in Alaska (I believe from a CBS affiliate) got caught on tape talking about trying to associate Republican Candidate Joe Miller with Child Molestors.
Now you want to tell me I should take their word on anything over Fox News when they have a track record of lieing and outright deceit as well as directly working with a political campaign to help smear an opponent.
visagrunt, I'm just giving examples that I can recall from memory I'm sure there are quite a few others that I have missed and the complete Journ'O'list still hasn't been uncovered. Excuse me but I'm not going to believe known pathological liars and propagandists. As far as I'm concerned Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have better track records. Hell, the National Enquirer has a better track record than the places you are telling me to take as the gospel truth.