Posted on 01/15/2006 9:42:01 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
Look at the question:
"If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."
It's a deliberately inflammatory theoretical question that's carefully drafted to get a "yes" answer. It applies to all types of wiretapping, not just the NSA wiretapping that's being challenged. Zogby is deliberately thumbing the scale with this question.
Answering "no" to this question is a lot like answering "no" to the question, "Should people be allowed to slowly strangle loving, playful six week old Labrador puppies?"
I agree that Zogby is simple slanted claptrap, but Ipsos is a bit more. Ipsos is a marketing company, and it is not only highly questionable for the MSM to cite it as a "neutral" source for opinion polls, I think that it is clear that conservatives should challenge it on those grounds.
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For a company to openly proclaim that they are paid to shape political opinion and then to also offer "polls" on those opinions is unacceptable in my estimation. For any news source to then offer those polls as unbiased is not only unacceptable, it is indefensible in my opinion. I think that this is the equivalent to naively accepting DNC "poll" results and running them as straight news.
Zogby should be deported.
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Here is how the queston should have been asked: "If President Bush, with sophisticated NSA computers, using his powers as commander in chief, and as been similiarly done by previous presidents, intercepted communications coming to America from known al Qaeda sources, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."
None of us want a president putting hardwire taps on our phones. That is what a large percentage of stupid people would have thought when asked Zogby's question.
The same people who could not pass a 9th grade-level civics test.
1,200 people is 0.0004% of the population, anyway. You're confusing the fraction and the percentage.
If ANY President violated the Law he should be impeached.
However it's not been proven that a Judge's approval was required prior to the wiretap orders being given.
Furthermore, I would personally PREFER that the Government monitor ALL phone calls coming IN or going OUT of the Country.
In country calls are another matter.
i agree the numbers don't add up seems heavy demoRAT. Like to see a poll based on flyover states.
No freakin' way more than half of Americans want to impeach Bush. Zogby's special sauce again, I'm sure...
Poll Question: Do you support wiretapping of American citizens by the President if such wiretapping would lead to impeachment of the President?
"What the class really taught me was how easy it is to lie with statistics."
Glad you learned. It is just one more "usful" trick of the MSM (primarily), but EPA, Dept of Energy, Homeland Security, HUD, partisan legislators, DoD, Dept State, Education, Labor, the Clinton's.....
Hmmm...they all seem so expert...
Zog has really gone off the deep end on this one. maybe his brother is worried he was monitored on one of those foreign intercepts.
Didn't Zogby recently have a poll where a large percentage thought that Bush wasn't listening enough to the American people?
Wiretapping DIDN'T HAPPEN. Why do they keep saying this. What's a wiretap? It's putting a bug on your phone line which didn't happen. What NSA and W did DOESN'T NEED WARRANTS.
You didn't think they were just going to give up after having their asses handed to them in the Alito hearings, did you? When have they shown enough sense to cut their losses in the past?
I just don't understand the mentality of people who don't understand the battle we face! This is a life and death struggle but too many americans don't know it and they've already forgotten 9/11. If we keep pussyfooting around with these people, life as we know it will be over.
"If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."
Other poll questions insert a range of qualifying notions, such as "international calls," and "contact with suspected terrorists." The question inserts the weasly "should Congress consider" phrase too. That is not the same as "should the President be," that most readers of the results will impute.
Others have pointed out that the poll has the function of keeping the dialogue going, and then in terms that are not favorable to the President.
The good news is that Presindet Bush is warmed up to having public hearings. Keep in mind tha so far he has not told "much" of his side of the story.
Approval of the "wiretapping" will depend on its scope and specific rationale. Nixon's enemies list was unpopular, as a way of historical example.
Yes.
gee! If Zogby, and WorldNetDaily say it's so, it must be true!
sheesh!
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