The great equivocator himself - Bill Moyers
Equivocate:
1 : to use language especially with intent to deceive
2 : to avoid committing oneself in what one says
Posted on 09/25/2008 9:13:54 PM PDT by BAW
The weekly online polls on “NOW on PBS” usually fetch votes in the thousands.
But a poll asking if Sarah Palin is qualified to be vice president touched a nerve - and drew tens of millions of votes.
And in the end, the hardest questions were being asked of “NOW on PBS” - a newsmagazine show on the public broadcasting network.
The Palin poll was posted earlier this month during the Republican National Convention after John McCain announced the Alaska governor as his running mate.
After the poll sparked intense lobbying by blogs on the left and the right, “NOW on PBS” came under fire for not asking the same about other candidates
“We were focusing on the one question that was timely at the time of the Republican convention because she’d just been introduced as his running mate,” Joel Schwartzberg, director of new media for “NOW on PBS,” said yesterday.
Schwartzberg said the Palin question was “very unbiased” but that people came “en masse” to vote. He said the poll was meant to measure enthusiasm and said no Web poll is scientific.
“NOW on PBS” also was criticized because the poll allowed people to vote more than once. Schwartzberg said PBS didn’t expect the poll “to take off as it did.”
When it realized people were voting more than once, a “cookies mechanism” was installed that allowed only one vote per person, Schwartzberg said.
John Siceloff, executive producer of “NOW on PBS,” issued a public letter Tuesday after receiving throngs of e-mails. Siceloff wrote that according to the single-voter numbers, 50 percent said Palin is qualified to be VP, while 48 percent said no.
I voted dozens (or perhaps a hundred) of times. Then yesterday it would only let me vote once. There must have been 10 thread here asking to vote and I received emails from 3 different people telling me to vote.
“Yes, every American realizes that”
It’s also a sham poll as it’s been running for what seems like a month.
How much BS do they think we are going to believe. They only ask if Palin is qualified and not Obama. The media is sickening.
Let’s hold a poll... should taxpayers fund PBS since they take marching orders from the DNC?
But I know
MacNeil is back? jk....force of habit I know :) Was the show a bit more balanced back then?
As Monk would say, "I LOL-ed out loud." It was hilarious, though I have a feeling the kids didn't realize the irony. Probably what surprised me most was that the posters haven't been ripped down (yet) by the teachers.
What’s it going to take to make this poll go away? It keeps poppin’ up in FR like wack-a-mole.
To be fair, the poll has been up for tens of millions of days.
Behold the fruits of our labor! lol
With FireFox you can tell it to block setting cookies from a particular web site. Then you can vote as many times as you want (unless you get a notice that your cookies are blocked).
“a “cookies mechanism” was installed that allowed only one vote per person”
rofl foolproof.
Or just use each of your browsers. I think I have 5 on my main computer (IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, SeaMonkey. And that's just for My MS operating system.
I’ve voted in it several times just today. Never got a message saying I had already voted.
The trick may be to just paste the URL into your browser and then always go back there from your history drop down.
Copy it in and see:
http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html
I just voted AGAIN...
No taxpayer funds for PBS.
You know, that qualifies you as an honorary Democrat.
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