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Poll: 89% Say Media Helped Elect, Promote Obama
newsmax.com ^ | Sept. 24, 2009 | Dan Weil

Posted on 09/24/2009 10:36:06 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

It’s not just conservatives who accuse the media of showing a liberal bias.

A new survey from the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute shows that 89.3 percent of Americans believe the national media played a sizable role in helping to elect President Obama.

And 69.9 percent of respondents view the national news media as intent on promoting the Obama presidency, while 26.5 percent disagreed, and 3.6 percent were unsure.

More than half of those surveyed, 56.4 percent, said the news media are promoting Obama’s healthcare reform without objective criticism. Another 39.3 percent disagreed, and 4.3 percent were unsure.

A majority, to the tune of 57.6 percent, also maintain that the news media appear to be coordinating efforts to diminish the record of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. More than a third (34.6 percent) disagreed, and 7.9 percent were unsure.

“It is sad when we find that only 55.9 percent say they expect the media to tell them the truth today,” Jerry Lindsley, director of the Polling Institute, said in a statement accompanying the survey.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008electionbias; agenda; bho44; democrats; dinosaurmedia; elections; emptysuit; liberalmedia; lsm; mediabias; msm; obama; obama2008; obamatruthfile; obamedia; pravdamedia; srm; yellowjournalism; zogbyism
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They need to be tarred and feathered. That’s what you do with traitors.


21 posted on 09/24/2009 11:07:01 AM PDT by bergmeid
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To: DoughtyOne

Oh, people who habitually lie in their daily job duties.


22 posted on 09/24/2009 11:09:20 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: bergmeid

The FEC and FCC should give up their jobs since they don’t regulate political contributions anymore.


23 posted on 09/24/2009 11:10:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

34-39% of the public is in Total denial.


24 posted on 09/24/2009 11:12:17 AM PDT by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m amazed so many people are just fine with that!


25 posted on 09/24/2009 11:14:56 AM PDT by MNDude (The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sacred Heart University Polling Institute. Now there’s a well known pollster, huh? Sort of scraping the barrel on this one, aren’t we?


26 posted on 09/24/2009 11:21:45 AM PDT by CanaGuy (Go Harper!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
89.3 percent of Americans believe the national media played a sizable role in helping to elect President Obama. Really?....The question should have been: What percent of Americans think the national media is biased towards all extreme liberal candidates? (No rocket science required....)
27 posted on 09/24/2009 11:30:34 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: a fool in paradise
Who were the other 11%?

ACORN & SEIU workers.

28 posted on 09/24/2009 11:32:11 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

so, ladies and gents of the MSM, that means when it all hits the fan for our dear Barry in the very near future, for you there will be...

No place to run to
No place to hide....


29 posted on 09/24/2009 11:39:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: a fool in paradise
"Who were the other 11%?"

Need you ask? AAs.

30 posted on 09/24/2009 11:57:12 AM PDT by avacado
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To: avacado

American Airlines?


31 posted on 09/24/2009 12:02:40 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: a fool in paradise

African-Americans. They are 12% of the population.


32 posted on 09/24/2009 12:04:18 PM PDT by avacado
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And we keep seeing here at FR that the MSM is on a deathwatch.


33 posted on 09/24/2009 1:07:04 PM PDT by stevecmd
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To: a fool in paradise

LOL


34 posted on 09/24/2009 1:22:24 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Wearing neck brace in commemoration of Ted Kennedy's contribution to our society.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Maybe there’s “hope” yet.

But I’m not holding my breath.


35 posted on 09/24/2009 2:08:40 PM PDT by bustinchops (Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; pissant

Gosh, we were just TOLD by good republicans on FR that the media has nothing to do with electing candidates!!


36 posted on 09/24/2009 2:14:04 PM PDT by AuntB (If the TALIBAN grew drugs & burned our land instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: a fool in paradise

The 11% are the core victim class plus hard-core Communists.


37 posted on 09/24/2009 2:15:14 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: a fool in paradise

And the Rat in the WH wants to bail these intolerant fascists out??? May they fail and go bankrupt. All of them and even the nutters on MSNBC.


38 posted on 09/24/2009 4:26:39 PM PDT by phillyfanatic
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To: phillyfanatic
If obama’s poll numbers do not continue to fall, we get..

1. Cap and Trade

2. Government run Health Care

3. More Democrats elected in 2010

4. The “Newspaper Bailout"

not a pretty picture.

39 posted on 09/24/2009 5:11:57 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The politicians know they can lie to you, they can tell you any story, even if you don’t believe it you’ll do nothing about it. I bet you don’t even believe this video, the brain washing has been much more effective than I would ever have believed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwjM2wVwFQs


40 posted on 09/24/2009 6:08:10 PM PDT by BILL_C (Those who don't understand the lessons of history will repeat, repeat and repeat.)
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