Fox's Bill O'Reilly has a solution to this problem: Union households shouldn't be polled. As he explained last night (3/1/11)

And the New York Times headline today reads "Majority in Poll Back Employees in Public Sector." But the poll is misleading because 20 percent of the responds say they are from union households. If you subtract them, those who favor cutting benefits win the poll. Wow, New York Times.

In case it wasn't clear, by "subtract them" he means exactly that--they shouldn't count in polls of the American public:

O'REILLY: You have a situation where you have 20 percent of the people polled being in the union families and you're telling me you can't throw that out? That that's a legitimate --

COLMES: You're saying -- yes, I'm saying that you are conflating numbers, 8 percent of people in the polls say are union members, 20 percent say they are in union families.

O'REILLY: Yes, families.

COLMES: You automatically--but you don't automatically take that 20 percent and move into it the other column.

O'REILLY: I'm not moving it anywhere. I'm just taking it out of the mix.

Following this "logic," the elderly shouldn't be polled on Social Security, blacks shouldn't be polled on civil rights legislation and Democrats shouldn't be polled on Barack Obama's job performance.

Until recently, professor Jane Hall was a regular guest on the O'Reilly Factor, debating conservative Bernie Goldberg. She's left Fox, and as she explained to CNN's Howard Kurtz (10/25/09), she never considered herself a liberal anyway:

KURTZ: When you appeared regularly on O'Reilly, were you there as a token from the dreaded MSM?

HALL: Well, I was there as a defender of the MSM. And you wouldn't believe how many famous journalists I talked to, who said better you than me. Let me tell you my side of the story. They didn't want to come on. It is hard to do, because it was like, when did you quit beating your wife? That was usually the question. But I felt it was worth doing.

KURTZ: Do you consider yourself a liberal?

HALL: No.

KURTZ: You were paired with Bernie Goldberg, the conservative point of view, who wrote a book about the media's slobbering love affair with Barack Obama?

HALL: Right.

KURTZ: So was that a fair pairing, to have someone who has that point of view, and you? You consider yourself a journalist.

HALL: I consider myself a journalist. I'm now able to say opinions because I'm a professor. I consider myself a moderate. In that universe, I was probably considered a wacky professor by O'Reilly. He would sort of pat me on the head and say, now, Jane, I know you liberals feel this way. And I'd say, I'm not really a liberal. So, yes, there's not necessarily a left/right comparison on there.

The Fox News Channel features a variety of opinions. We parade in scores of guests each week with all kinds of views. Glenn Beck believes the nation is in crisis. Alan Colmes believes Obama could be the next FDR. Sean Hannity believes the Republican Party has the right formula. And I believe both parties need an overhaul. They need to start looking out for the folks. So you get a wide range of views, while our hard news people deliver solid facts.

Huh. Three right-wingers and Alan Colmes--who lost his show on Fox two months ago.

Watch the whole thing--but the best part is the opening credits.