FR EXCLUSIVE - CNN hires Clinton-controlled Opinion Research Corp. for 2008 Presidential Polling

Today CNN announced that "The CNN Poll will become the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll" -

Based on the history of the people who recently acquired Opinion Research Corp., we believe that the true purpose of the CNN/Opinion Research partnership is to rig the poll results to benefit Hillary Clinton in her 2008 presidential campaign.

Opinion Research was purchased last year by InfoUSA. InfoUSA is controlled by a hard-core Clintonista named Vinod Gupta.

Gupta is a major Clinton/DNC donor and fundraiser, and Lincoln Bedroom guest. He has recently spent large sums to establish these Clinton-worship centers in India -

Gupta manipulated InfoUSA's acquisition of Opinion Research to his personal benefit last year by purchasing shares in Opinion Research, then using his position as chairman of InfoUSA to orchestrate the acquisition of O.R.C. at a nearly 100% premium - thus driving up the value of his O.R.C. shares at the expense of his IUSA shareholders. This sleazy transaction was described last year in a New York Times article

Due to adverse publicity during an IUSA proxy battle last year, Gupta removed his personal web site (www.vingupta.com) which contained several photos of him getting cozy with the Clintons.

We have obtained several photos of Gupta getting hot and sweaty with the Clintons from his deleted web site -

Given the close personal and financial ties between the man who controls Opinion Research Corp. and the Clintons, we believe that the CNN/Opinion Research polling results are hopelessly tainted and intended to benefit Hillary Clinton's presidential bid. CNN either failed to perform due diligence on their partner, or they are complicit in this polling sham.

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Sanjay Gupta

Senior Medical Correspondent, CNN Medical News

Dr. Sanjay Gupta is senior medical correspondent for the health and medical unit at CNN. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon and an assistant professor of neurosurgery, plays an integral role in the network's medical coverage, which includes daily packages, the half-hour weekend show House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and coverage of breaking medical news. Based in Atlanta, he also co-hosts Accent Health for Turner Private Networks, provides medical segments for the syndicated version of ER on TNT, contributes health news stories to CNN.com, writes a column for TIME magazine and recently launched a weekly podcast on iTunes called "Paging Dr. Gupta."

Gupta has been published in a variety of scientific journals and has received numerous accolades. His health reports swept all three health and medical awards in 2006 – the first year the National Headliner Awards honored such journalism in a dedicated category.

Vinod Gupta

Chief Executive Officer, Info USA

Vinod Gupta is the founder, Chairman and CEO of infoUSA, Inc., one of the nation’s largest database companies.

Gupta began his career as a marketing research analyst for the Commodore Corporation, a mobile home manufacturer in Omaha, Nebraska, where he created a list of sales leads by requesting a copy of every Yellow Pages book in the United States. He gave the list to his employer with the agreement that he could sell the list to competitors, an arrangement that led to the launch, shortly thereafter, of infoUSA.

Today, the company, headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska and with annual revenue of $311.3 million, compiles the industry’s largest and most accurate consumer and business databases, accessed by more than four million customers nationwide.

Gupta holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India. He received an M.S. in engineering in 1969 and an M.B.A. in 1971, both from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Ya Gotta love it! (Hillary the Outsourcer)
JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER ^ | 03/05/2004 | Rob Sanchez

Posted on 03/05/2004 9:45:06 AM CST by Keen-Minded

Here's an excerpt from a newsletter I get indicating how Hillary Clinton took the bait that Lou Dobbs set for her and hit her between the eyes. She was on CNN decrying the companies who outsourced jobs to cheap foreign labor and telling all of the things she was doing to stop it and create jobs here.

Then Lou hit her with the fact that she helped TATA consulting set up offices here to OUTSOURCE American jobs. She responded with " but they created 10 jobs in the buffalo area. What she didn't mention was that of those, 70% are H1B's, here to solicit work for India.

What troubles me is the fact that our government, both state and federal has huge deficits, people are losing everything and our elected officials are still advocating H1B and L1 use where many are paying NO federal taxes and advocating illegal aliens who in many cases also are paying no state or federal taxes.

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER
by Rob Sanchez
www.ZaZona.com

Senator Hillary Clinton went on Lou Dobbs yesterday to talk about her concerns on the outsourcing issue. Hillary didn't know that Lou Dobbs set her up with a trap - and Hillary took the bait. In order to understand why Hillary was so vulnerable to Dobb's setup, please go to the archive, scroll near the bottom, and read "Buffaloed by Hillary" Parts 1-4.

http://www.zazona.com/shameh1b/JobDestructionNews.htm

Dr. Norman Matloff a similar series during that time period that are also worth reading. Here are the links:
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/Hillary3.txt http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/Hillary2.txt http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/Hillary.txt

For quick reference, here are some of the sordid connections between TATA and the Clintons:

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a welcoming party and the red carpet treatment for the Indian owned bodyshop TATA and it's CEO Subramaniam Ramadorai. The celebration - TATA was setting up an office in Buffalo. TATA's website praised Clinton's sellout of principle by saying, "The deal was the brainchild of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY)".

Vinod Gupta, the president of TATA, admitted that 70% of the work will be sent offshore and only 30% will be done in the United States. Gupta says that half his employees are Indians on work visas, and that was good enough for Hillary! Gupta not only got a call from the Clintons for a dinner banquet during Prime Minister Vajpayee's visit, but he also got a sleepover at the White House. Gupta gave $2,000 to Ms. Clinton to support her campaign and more than $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee.

Here is a list of Indian-owned bodyshops that Hillary invited to New York:

NIIT www.niit.com/
ITC www.itcinfotech.com/
Tata (TCS) www.tata.com/
Mindtree www.mindtree.com/

Ashok Soota, founder of Mindtree, is offered Hillary a nice prize for selling out - an expense paid junket to India for all of her business buddies. Hillary hosted a tea party for the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). www.ciionline.org/

Lou Dobbs show analysis 5 Steps Used to Trap Hillary Clinton :

Step 1: Baiting Clinton: Lou Dobbs allows Clinton to blather about how she wants to protect jobs. She even pretends to be compassionate and caring. CLINTON: Getting our trade system right, you know, I was very disappointed when the current administration moved away from the Jordan free trade agreement, which began to try to put into place higher labor and environmental standards so it wasn't a race to the bottom. We also need to be looking at the fair treatment of our workers, and that's a big problem for us in Upstate New York, because we've lost so many manufacturing jobs and now we're losing service jobs. And we're not giving people the support they need to find their way back into the job market. But at the same time, we've got to have the jobs for them to be able to take.

Step 2: Setting-up Clinton. Ouch! That must a hurt, especially after she just got finished saying how she was going to save manufacturing jobs. DOBBS: I think we're all with you on that part. I would just like to point out, however, that free trade didn't begin with this administration. Your husband's administration was a leading proponent and a rather effective advocate of that, including the onset of NAFTA, of course.

Step 3 - Dropping the Bomb on Clinton. Dobbs asks her about her cozy relationship with TATA. All of you that are emailing Dobbs should get credit for this one! DOBBS: Amongst the number of things, when we said you were going to be our guest here, Senator, a number of people pointed out to us, e- mailing us and calling us, saying, ask the senator about her helping Tata Consulting, a well-known outsourcer, open jobs -- and office in Buffalo, New York. I'm asking you, did you really understand the degree to which they were involved in outsourcing jobs when you were there?

Step 4: Allow for Clinton's Damage Control Clinton's attempt at damage control was pathetic. She sounds like she was coached by Harris Miller. Hillary brags that TATA created ten jobs in Buffalo. She is probably talking about ten token American citizens that TATA hired because you can bet TATA brought a whole lot more than 10 Indians on visa into New York. CLINTON: Well, of course I know that they outsource jobs, that they've actually brought jobs to Buffalo. They've created 10 jobs in Buffalo and have told me and the Buffalo community that they intend to be a source of new jobs in the area, because, you know, outsourcing does work both ways. You know, we cannot close our borders. We have to be smarter about competing. We have, more enforceable trade agreements. But we also have to attract jobs from around the world. And you know, we are still the biggest market with the greatest potential for growth for businesses from literally every corner of the world.

Step 5: Allow Clinton to dig herself deeper into the hole. First she criticizes Bush for allowing outsourcing, and then describes why outsourcing can't be stopped. Did I miss something here, dear Hillary, or do you and Bush agree that American job destruction must continue? Clinton demonstrated her socialist ideology and her contempt for the "public sector" when she said that outsourcing isn't an issue that they should be concerned about. Apparently she only cares if government employees lose jobs. Clinton probably forgot Dobbs question because she had a freudian slip - she defended TATA's right to import H-1Bs and L-1s by declaring that we can't "close our borders". It's also very noticeable that she only talked about manufacturing jobs - not the tech jobs that she has helped to destroy in New York. CLINTON: I look forward to supporting him [John Kerry] in any way that he requests, because I think that we are going to provide an alternative, just as we are today on the Senate floor providing an alternative to the lack of economic policies by this administration and really the celebration of outsourcing. You know, we're not going to stop all outsourcing. I'm not in favor of putting up fences around our country. I think what I want is to address the challenge we face and make sure that we are equipped to provide the incentives both to our workers and to our employers. And Lou, let me say one other thing, because this is not just an issue for the public sector. I think that private sector leadership the rule of law that we support, everything that is great about living in America. And I think, frankly, that they need to be more responsible in how they view their obligations to this country.

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