Posted on 05/05/2007 9:05:46 AM PDT by new yorker 77
Yet another fake poll from Newsweak to taint their debate coverage and help their hate-the-troops news division.
Rasmussen Poll has Bush's Job Approval at 40%.
Newsweak just engineered a poll to lower his Job Approval to 28%.
What in the world caused the media to be filled with leftists?
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In the 60s & 70s, the VietNam protesters provoked by sKerry and Fonda and SDS encouraged their liberal comrades to go into journalism so they could “change the world”... Many tried the field out, and found that it was a LOT easier to get good grades there (especially with the support of their leftist professors) than in the engineering and classics and other “useful skills” classes they had been taken.
Voila: Leftist Journalists... who of course believe they are all “main stream” thinkers.
by the way: what I wrote in post#21 wasn’t “suspicion” ... I witnessed this explicitly on many occasions, and over a dozen students I knew changed their majors.
Can you imagine working at Newsweak these days? I imagine it’s like being an accountant at the last slide rule factory; you know - - a guy who uses one of those newfangled calculators to keep the books. It’s gotta be like a morgue in that place. Personally, I’d be embarrassed to admit that I worked for a dying institution like Newsweak or Time. Whew...
Anyway, an operation like Newsweak isn’t about to use up a whole lot of limited resources to conduct a credible poll. No doubt they just threw a bunch of recent college grad new-hires on the phones for a couple of days and, voila! - - a poll.
Oh, so that’s where all the people who “couldn’t teach” went.
Drudge has the 28% story up now. How many eyeballs view Drudge on a daily basis? You should care.
You are in denial.
Could care less, he has an 80 pct approval rating with repubs
They don’t have to call anybody anymore; MoveOn will call them — and tell them what the results of their poll say.
They have to cut costs somewhere. “Facts” are the first to go. That takes money and skill. Poll results are a dime a dozen — along with anti-Bush experts.
You’re right, it’s not likely 28%, but it’s not 40% either. Dubya has been stuck in the mid 30s for a while. He has settled there, and that’s where his popularity most likely rests now.
You can't discount them. They are still people and many of them vote.
The worst mainstream media tactic I’ve encountered so far, is that they run blogs now, and then ban all non-Bush bashers Republicans and anybody who doesn’t begin their comments with how wonderful their newspapers writers are.
99% of poll participants state that Newsweek doesn’t even work that well as toilet paper,, let alone as a news source.
Excellent point. It fits.
What is it that Democrats do? They walk into the polling place and vote for big government to confiscate more and more money - - from their neighbors - - so that government can do what they themselves are too lazy to do. I can't think of anything more rude and selfish, but there you go....
The fact that their "method" of "doing things" does nothing more than enable their scumbag politicians to buy votes is irrelevant. (If they keep their eyes closed tight and shake their heads and chant "nah-nah-nah-nah", they won't notice it.)
So your theory (above) fits perfectly - - forcing others to do what they won't do themselves is what Democrats do, and that mindset expands naturally into "journalism".
More and more, the world seems to be divided into the free and independent thinkers on one side, and those being told what to think by the Big Brothers in the media, schools, universities, unions and “Democratic” Party on the other.
Lefty loons have always inhabited the media. Remember that scum that did not report accurately the slaughter of millions by the REDS in the USSR? Duranty I think was his name and he worked for the NY Times. Then there was that crackpot Jack Reid who was a big commie who was a reporter at the fall of Czarist Russia who was is buried in the Kremlin.
Are we beginning to see a pattern here?
I have been contacted, and am very vocal as well, especially on immigration issues and spineless republicans. What you should understand is regales of how vocal I am when contacted by members of the republican party, there is still no question I will vote for one in an election when the alternative is a democrat. This last election should show everybody what happens if we stay home or “protest” vote for somebody else.
I don't want to think about what that says about the economic ignorance of far too many sheeple. Maybe Boortz is right when he talks about government schools.
I think that what you say is true, but I also know that many of these people probably couldn't tell you who their Congressional Representatives are let alone their party affiliation unless the media told them. I live in a district that was overwhelmingly Bush in 2004, then voted a democrat to the senate by a big margin and a republican to the house by a bigger margin in 2006. There's no rhyme or reason for that exchange, and that's in the same state.
If we have any hope of competing in the 2008 election, we need to accept that reality and plan accordingly.
Democrats who won formerly Republican areas need to be exposed for the corrupt, lying, hypocrites they are. Even the Cleveland Plain Dealer (known also as the New Dealer, the Crack Dealer, etc.) has caught St. Theodore of Portsmouth (AKA Governor Strickland) in an unconstitutional power grab. http://www.cleveland.com/politics/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1178354086234600.xml&coll=2
But no Republican in Columbus will do anything to keep this story alive. They'll bend over to Strickland just as the RINOs in the House did.
Back to national politics: the GOP needs to find the un-Bush to be its standard-bearer in 2008. Do I know who this is? No, but I hope it's Fred Thompson right now. Some may think it's Rudy, or McCain, and that's fine, too.
Newsweak's polling and sampling may be questionable, but no one is doing anyone any favors by pretending his approval rating is near the 40s.
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