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FOX NEWS .. Did Anyone Hear This? (A Sorta Vanity)

Posted on 09/25/2010 4:38:31 PM PDT by plinyelder

Between 6 and 7pm (est) tonight, Fox News had on Doug Schoen, the Democratic pollster and some other A$$Hat whom I believe was an author.

The discussion was about the reliability and slant of polls.

What REALLY Pi$$ed me off is .. The author dude said a Good Example of misleading numbers was .. Ta Da .. Glenn Beck and his claiming of 500,000 people at the Beck rally.

This guy CLAIMS that there was REALLY only about 90,000 people in attendance.

Here's the KICKER.

The guy CLAIMS that Farakan's Million Man March was also misleading Because .. There was ONLY about 500,000 at That Rally and not a million!

Maybe I'm not being very clear here and I'm just rambling 'But' do any of you see Why I might be .. Just a little PI$$ED?

/Rant


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 828; beck; glennbeck; restoringhonor
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To: plinyelder

No point in getting angry. Just rest assured that they know they’re lying and they’re doing it out of fear.


21 posted on 09/25/2010 5:23:55 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly

“Charles Seif, professor at IEU, and author of the new book, Proofiness.”

Charles Seif who thinks “global warming” is real. End of his credibility.


22 posted on 09/25/2010 5:28:01 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: cripplecreek
No point in getting angry. Just rest assured that they know they’re lying and they’re doing it out of fear.

I think that what Really got me going was how the FOX host just let it ride as fact!

23 posted on 09/25/2010 5:30:56 PM PDT by plinyelder ("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: kcvl

dunno but he wrote a stupidass book titled ‘proofiness’ or some such nonsense.

he’s a loser.


24 posted on 09/25/2010 5:32:13 PM PDT by spacejunkie01
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To: spacejunkie01

I was there, too. I walked the whole crowd front to back, and personally estimate around 300,000, perhaps a little higher. Certainly there were more people at Beck’s rally than at the original MLK 1963 gathering, as one can easily determine by comparing the photos of both events.


25 posted on 09/25/2010 6:04:28 PM PDT by JTR1888
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To: Las Vegas Ron

“You sure it isn’t “Poofiness”?:

Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by Charles Seife

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_4?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=proofiness&sprefix=proo


26 posted on 09/25/2010 6:06:23 PM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly (Liberals lie.)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
It was a joke, I dropped the “r” out of Proofiness.

The guy is a flaming lib so I just figured he was a little "poofie" aka a poofter.

27 posted on 09/25/2010 6:13:15 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Moderates manipulate, extremest use violence, but the goal is the same.)
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To: plinyelder

These estimators need tell us how they came up with their estimate. Seems like you could count heads in a portion of a picture and extrapolate that to the entire crowd.


28 posted on 09/25/2010 6:15:44 PM PDT by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

“It was a joke, I dropped the “r” out of Proofiness.

The guy is a flaming lib so I just figured he was a little “poofie” aka a poofter.”

Sorry about that, right over my head. It could also be called, “Poopyness”. A light toilet humor never hurt anyone, lol.


29 posted on 09/25/2010 6:21:36 PM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly (Liberals lie.)
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To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
A light toilet humor never hurt anyone, lol.

Hehheh, my favorite kind!

30 posted on 09/25/2010 6:23:16 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Moderates manipulate, extremest use violence, but the goal is the same.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Was asshat a pollster? If he was, he just ruined any credibility he had.

There are some reliable pollsters and some who produce the requested results regardless of the facts. We're like lawyers in the sense that the decent ones don't like the way the other 90% of the profession makes us look.

31 posted on 09/25/2010 8:52:13 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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