According to a top official in the first Bush administration, Fox News is hurting the Republican Party. Bruce Bartlett who worked in the first Bush administration and was domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan commissioned the study. The study found that Fox News viewers are less informed about news and current events than people who watch other news outlets and people who don't even watch news at all. "Republican voters get so much of their news from Fox, which cheerleads whatever their candidates are doing or saying, that they suffer from wishful thinking and fail to see that they may not be doing as well as they imagine, or that their ideas are not connecting outside the narrow party base," Bartlett said. "It appears that right-wing bias, including inaccurate reporting, became commonplace on Fox," Bartlett said. He added, "many conservatives now refuse to even listen to any news or opinion not vetted through Fox, and to believe whatever appears on it as the gospel truth." A number of other republicans have also have also expressed concern with Fox News. Newt Gingrich said in 2012, "I think Fox has been for Romney all the way through," Gingrich said. "In our experience, Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than Fox this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of Fox, and we're more likely to get distortion out of Fox. That's just a fact." Also Senator Tom Coburn said last year that some Fox shows are "totally not fair and totally not balanced." Even Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), who often appears on the network, he said that its immigration coverage "makes it harder for me to get people on my side."

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