Posted on 06/17/2013 6:39:34 AM PDT by Cheerio
A new CNN poll finds that 66 percent of American adults believe that it's "right" for the Obama administration to analyze and collect Internet data. Only 33 percent believe the action is "wrong," and 1 percent have "No opinion."
"[F]or the past few years the Obama administration has reportedly been gathering and analyzing information from major internet companies about audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails and documents involving people in other countries in an attempt to locate suspected terrorists. The government reportedly does not target internet usage by U.S. citizens and if such data is collected, it is kept under strict controls," reads the poll question. "Do you think the Obama administration was right or wrong in gathering and analyzing that internet data?"
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Firgures.
I just don’t believe the poll - flat out. I just heard this morning on the radio 57% of people do not trust Obama; his approval rating slipped 8% in the last month.
Again, I’ve said this before. You HAVE to carefully read the questions in the poll to see how they have been designed to manipulate the answer...
The poll is bullshit.
Oh, yeah?! I saw a poll that said “99.9% of people with a functioning brain said CNN is pure, unadulterated garbage.”
Thanks.
And notice how this is not just that the people believe that the federal government has this “right,” nor that the NSA has it, nor that the administration has it, but that the OBAMA administration. OBAMA has this right, the Fuhrer has this right.
The same lie that Pew used — “foreign countries”.
Dick Cheney followed by a panel of elitist twits headed by Karl Rove and Britt Hume, Democrat apologist Jane Harman of the house intelligence committee and crazy Juan Williams who is all in on anything, Barry is all in on.
CNN is one of two propaganda machines for the Democrat Party. Fox News is truly the official propaganda machine of Big Brother.
Fox News Channel is a mouthpiece for the New World Order and Karl Rove be minister of propaganda. He can trash Barry all he wants, but his loyalty to his elitist masters may be found in his support of open borders and the police state.
I think more specific questions would yield something like this:
Do you approve of the government monitoring the internet activities of radical Muslims? 79%
Do you approve of the government’s abilities to read your emails and look at your sexting photos? 3%
Of course the Obama administration has the right to collect and analyze data using the NSA. How else are they expected to regain the House of Representatives in the November 2014 election?
All those inaccurate and diminishing qualifiers in the question got CNN the results they wanted—but they demonstrate nothing that pertains to this situation.
I knew the dumbing down of America has been in full swing for quite a while, but I never realized how many Low Information morons had been produced.
I don’t think they will be asking for our opinions -
we won’t be able to have one...
According to the same poll:
96% of Americans do not want “another Hiroshima”.
92% of Americans do not want “another Nagasaki.”
62% of Americans wish they could ride a unicorn.
8% of Americans believe they are allergic to unicorns.
47% of Americans think that England is part of New England.
22% of Americans think that New England is part of England.
32% of Americans believe that Women’s Suffrage is Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
16% of Americans want the EPA to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
The margin of error in this survey is +/- 300%
Democracy is an evil from the pits of Hell - and our Founders were wise to fear it.
Oh, OK — CNN. Results meaningless.
So do 66% also believe it’s ok for Obama to use what he ‘learns’ against conservatives ? I suspect that is 66% too.
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
Slightly more reliable news source than the Onion, Weekly World News or Huffington Post.
Quite a bit more reliable than Newsweek (alt name-Amerikan Communist Rantings Weakly)
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