are fox news watchers really this ignorant?

the program on international policy attitudes released a study entitled "US public beliefs and attitudes about Iraq" in August, 2004. here are some interesting findings...

most americans that got their news from commercial tv held at least one of three major misperceptions about the iraq war...that weapons of mass destruction had been discovered in iraq; that evidence closely linking iraq to al qaeda had been found [even this administration disavoys this now]; or that world public opinion approved of the US invasion [never mind the millions upon millions that emptied into the streets in opposition before the bombs started to fall].

and here is the really amusing part...fox news viewers were the most confused about these key "facts"...a full 80 percent of regular fox news viewers embraced at least one of the above falsities as fact.

the study noticed a correlation between this misinformation and support of the war...those that had the wrong info were more likely to support the war. not much of a surprise there...afterall, why did we think these assholes were lying to us?