Just like their branding the estate tax as a “death tax” and saying that Obama’s healthcare plan includes “death panels”—it’s always that element of fear that they like to insert into everyday conversation. Even if Obama were the best president in the world (and he certainly fails in many areas) there would be nothing this man could do to ever rate one positive comment because of their abject hatred.

This relentless partisan campaign against American products and American jobs has been so successful that GM CEO Dan Akerson suggested it contributed to lower than expected demand, “We did not design the Volt to become a political punching bag and that’s what it’s become.”

The above quotes are taken from the following link and is an apology, of sorts, from Fox regarding the false information they’ve been faithfully disseminating.
http://tinyurl.com/7hzyj39

Evidently not everyone has the same opinion of O’Reilly and Fox News.

After said Fox News turkey, there may well have been some backroom discussions between GM and Fox because, oddly enough, shortly thereafter, quite a few Volt commercials ran on Fox for which I doubt any money was exchanged.

So, the latest update: two nights ago, the imperious, self-glorifying O’Reilly, unquestioned ruler of the “No Spin Zone,” once again kicked the “Volt” around and proclaimed “several have caught fire.”

Read the whole Bob Luts blog post- http://goo.gl/hckBI

Chevy’s Volt draws GOP scorn as campaign … – Automotive News
Gingrich quote from article:

“The average family that buys it earns $170,000 a year and this is Obama’s idea of populism and in his new budget he wants to increase the amount given to every Volt buyer to $10,000, which is an amount which would allow a lot of people to buy a decent secondhand car but it wouldn’t be an Obama car,” Gingrich said to cheers in Peachtree City, Ga.
“But here’s my point to folks: You can’t put a gun rack in a Volt. So let’s be clear what this election is all about,” Gingrich continued. “We believe in the right to bear arms and we like to bear the arms in our trucks.”

Read more: http://www.autonews.com/article/20120310/OEM05/303109998#ixzz1qWAPmoCd

I don’t ding Fox, as you say, because it’s fun to do or to score political points. It’s that I find it very troubling that the American people are being misinformed. Yes, it’s disturbing that the misinformation forms political discourse, but it’s really very worrisome to think that a large segment of the population believes the incorrect information that the programming gives out. I want the country to be smarter, not stupider. Spieckerman gave some good examples, right on the air.

On a larger scale my beef is that I enjoy a debate of ideas but I feel like on this blog you really don’t want debate, you want to vent. I guess that is okay, it is your blog after all. However, it does bother me to read false information, know that it is false and let it slide. I think one of the tenets of the progressive movement is an acceptance of speech or actions that are considered out of the norm. However, my experience is that progressives are the least willing to hear an idea contrary to their own without dismissing the person and idea as “uninformed”.

What’s your beef here, Contrarian – that no one on Fox has ever used the phrase Obamamobile? The Volt is very commonly called that. No, I can’t prove that it’s been uttered on Fox, but Lee Spieckerman claims the Volt has been very much maligned on Fox, with misinformation given. Are you disputing him? Is that what you’re after?

Or do you have a problem with the research showing that Fox watchers are ill-informed?