Fox News reported on some new presidential rankings, which purportedly show Barack Obama as the #6 president in U.S. history and Donald Trump dead last, and MAGA was not happy.

Fox News on Sunday posted an article about the new rankings by the Presidential Greatness Project, which Fox describes as “a group of self-styled experts.” It states that Abraham “Lincoln topped the list of presidents in the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project expert survey for the third time, following his top spot in the rankings in the 2015 and 2018 versions of the survey.”

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“Rounding out the top five in the rankings were Franklin Delano Roosevelt at number two, George Washington at three, Theodore Roosevelt at four, and Thomas Jefferson at five,” according to the report. “Trump was ranked in last place in the survey, being ranked worse than James Buchanan at 44, Andrew Johnson at 43, Franklin Pierce at 42, and William Henry Harrison at 41.”

The report states that Obama and Joe Biden “ranked an average of 6th and 13th, respectively, among Democrat respondents, and 15th and 30th by Republicans.”

    • Flumpkin@slrpnk.net
      17·
      10 months ago

      Step 1: Put out outrageous conspiracy theories or policies on twitter
      Step 2: Wait for crazies to comment and create a high engagement shitstorm
      Step 3: Now you can reference those outrageous things on mainstream media
      …
      Step 4: Profit
      Step 5: Armageddon

      • arc@lemm.ee
        2·
        10 months ago

        That is basically the schtick that every tabloid and every partisan site puts out. Visit the Daily Mail (actuall don’t) and every other story is some garbage from social media that they’ve decided to turn into click bait.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        12·
        10 months ago

        Ummm… It’s not new. Noam Chompsky may have gone off the deep end here in the last few years, but he had a point when he wrote that book in 1988, about events that happened between ≈1960 till ≈1980. This is a well known political strategy that has been used by multiple countries since 1898 when William Randolph Hearst declared, “You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war.”

        The only real “new” part is that we now have the ability to network so inefficiently that we constantly form echo chambers, emboldening the fringe elements, allowing them to connect to each other extremely efficiently, and maybe allowing the people that are supposed to be watching, to actually watch. I suspect the last part is severely corrupted though.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      there is nothing in this “article” that couldn’t be hammered out in 10 min on a smartphone.

      Bonus points if this article was published while on the can.

      Sad thing is: it’s generating clicks regardless of how crap the article is, because that title is just so bait-y. :(