Fox News Measures Tax Hikes The Way 13 Year-Olds Measure Their Penis
on August 1, 2012 at 8:14 pmAt that age, the name of the game at that age is “Exaggeration!” It’s not 7 and a half inches, it’s “almost eight.” You push that ruler as hard as possible to get that extra fraction of an inch. I suppose the female equivalent would be stuffing tissues into your bra or wearing a push up. Regardless, the idea is make what you have seem much larger than it actually is.
Fox is apparently staffed by awkward teenagers desperately trying to match a false narrative. In this case, it’s not “I want to be as big as the porn stars I see online!” but rather, “A 4.6% tax hike is as big as the porn stars I see online!” How else can you explain this graphic?
OH MY GOD! That’s HUGE! It’s just too big! How can America take it?!
Eh, you get the point. But is 4.6% really that much? Let’s say you make a federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour that the GOP thinks you can survive on. You get a 4.6% raise. That’s a whole whopping 33 cents. Does 4.6% still sound like an overwhelming number?
Media Matters provides a visual comparsion much more in line with reality than the adolescents over at Fox seem to be capable of:
It’s embarrassing to think there are adults that fall for this stuff. The new Fox slogan: “For children, by children.”