Posted on 09/18/2004 6:15:04 AM PDT by kristinn
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I haven't had so much fun watching and reading the news in quite some time as this past week.
Dont they put polls online to get opinions? Is not a Freepers opinion worth getting?
We have all known for years that the way to get the answer you want in a poll is to word it correctly or to have that poll in a place where the answers will suit you. When you go online with a poll you ask the opinions of the world we who come to Free Republic are a part of that world.
ping.
From the essay: "Free Republic and the New Media":
...From our makeup, we are Americans: Conservative Americans. Americans united in one common goal: We wont stop till the mission is complete. For we are the new media. We are the new truth in America. We are the amateurs that have rocked the status quo. These merry bands of amateurs, known as Freepers, have shown their expertise at exposing the truth. This forum called Free Republic will supercede the admonishment of the liberal media and conquer all those that oppose us. After all, we are the best in the world. Ive said it before and Ill say it again: Free Republic is made up of some of the finest minds Ill ever know. And for that, I am forever grateful for their expertise. I am forever grateful for this new media.
Why don't they do a Dan Rather? There's no law of physics that says that the published results of an on-line poll have to reflect the actual votes cast (kinda like a Chicago Democratic precinct.) Determine the results first, let people pretend to vote and publish the facts that you "know" to be true, despite any evidence.
AAArrrrrrggggggghhhh!! Those damn pajama people keep messing up my liberal poll numbers!
Now I have to start up a liberal only web... Hey! just wait a friggin minute! I know!!! I'll have algore invent one for me!!!
Po-or Babies!
...got their feelings hurt, did they? Welcome to the real world, jugheads.
One person, one vote. What's the problem? Pure democracy at its finest.
"That's what the Free Republic Web site calls it when its fans jam a poll to mess up the results."
We FREEP online polls to show how worthless they are. If there's anything disingenuous, its using unscientific polling and then complaining when their flaws are exposed.
Leftist reporters are so stupid. Probably double majored in Femininst Theory and Environmentalism.
This is RICH.
I looked, but didn't see a new poll to FReep.
LOL-LOL-LOL!
Hey, it's what we do. Offer to pass out free beer at the Walmart and we will be there, too.
Monterey--They make a pretty good cheese.
Their next online poll: "How do you feel about Freepers participating in this poll? A. They have the right. B. They should mind their own business."
FReeping: The perfect antidote to DUmbing down.
Kewl! I guess it would have been nice if they would have put in a link to FreeRepublic, but all in all a nice article about us.
Inverse Corrolary...had the DU mobilized and the poll been "DUped", the results would have been fair and accurate.
We FReep.
They DUpe.
Or:
We didn't get the numbers we wanted so we'll blame it on the Freepers.
..or on the VRC.
..or George Bush.
Anything but admit that they might have actually gotten acurate numbers (could happen!) and they are just having trouble dealing with.. THE TRUTH!!!
Whine whine whine.
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