Posted on 11/25/2008 5:13:30 AM PST by Kaslin
John Ziegler didn’t know the kind of fury the left would unleash on him when he unveiled his web video “How Obama Got Elected.”
The ten-minute short featured 12 interviews he conducted with Obama supporters at Los Angeles polling stations on Election Day and the final product wasn’t flattering to liberals. His subjects couldn’t answer basic questions like “Who controls Congress” and “Who is Nancy Pelosi” or “Who is Harry Reid.” They could, however, correctly answer questions about GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and wardrobe budget without any problem.
The web video spread like wildfire around the internet, getting more than 1.4 million views. Ziegler plans to include the interviews in a forthcoming film titled “Media Malpractice…How Obama Got Elected.”
See his website and video here.
As a result Ziegler’s email inbox has been flooded with profanity-laced emails accusing him of racism, bigotry and hate mongering. (He submitted 25 of these emails for my review, but many of them are unprintalbe.) “Whoever started this sight [sic] is a racist!” one email sent from someone identified as Andrea Gurule said. “What? You couldn’t handle a black man beating out a white man?! The man is qualified. More so than John McCain. Regardless, He’s your president. Get over it!”
Ziegler argues that he never intended to make Obama supporters look bad. Rather, they could not answer the questions because the media misinformed them throughout the election. He admits his interviews were not “scientific” but he did commission Zogby to conduct a poll asking the same questions. The Zogby poll found 57.4 percent of Obama supporters could not correctly say which party controls Congress. Only 6.2 percent of those same supporters failed to identify Palin as having a pregnant daughter.
See poll results here.
“The Zogby results were incredible and they were credible and the vast majority of enws media ignored it because it was their own malfeasance that created a massive amount of ignorance,” he said.
Ziegler is now planning to commission a similar poll to assess the political intelligence of those who voted for GOP presidential candidate John McCain. Zogby, however, is refusing to do it. After receiving a great amount of backlash from Obama supporters Zogby said will not be conducting the McCain poll.
“I believe there was value in the poll we did,” John Zogby told the Politico. “I also believe it was not our finest hour. This slipped through the cracks. It came out critical only of Obama voters.”
Ziegler said he didn’t originally conduct such poll for McCain voters because his documentary is focusing on how Obama got elected, not McCain. He will likely include the McCain poll results in the film and along with more detail about the outcry over his original poll.
“All this controversy proves the overriding premise” that the media helped Obama get elected Ziegler said.
Documentary Outrages Left
Must be accurate and good.
America is in a great deal of trouble.
bttt
I see the left is showing its usual tolerance.
Interesting how, anytime anyone on the right criticized some leftist criticism of Bush - be it slanderous or worse - people warned against a “chilling effect” on speech.
Listen for how many times the same voices use that term with respect to very reall attempts to silence Obama critics. You won’t hear it.
Outrageous.
Bump for later read.
The MSM carried on a campaign of the ultimate “Affirmative Action” in a totally frivolous way.
Unfortunately, you are correct on all counts.
As someone posted here; we elected an American Idol president.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Oh, boo hoo Zogby. The poll didn't have the spin you like so now you regret it? Up yours, a-hole.
Ziegler’s work is terrific!
“...Documentary Outrages Left
Must be accurate and good....”
Any Degree of Truth Outrages Leftists.
To anger a conservative, tell a lie about him.
To anger a liberal, tell the truth about him.
bookmarking for later
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I seriously don’t see how anyone can logically (and that’s the key word) claim that 0bama is more qualified to be president than McCain.
The person claiming this in the above article is clearly a racist, putting forth only the relative skin tones of the two candidates as qualifying criteria.
The sting of the cold, harsh truth hurts. Too freakin’ bad. For the most part his voters are dummies. I’m not surprised by the results.
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