"Efforts to establish a stable democracy" in Iraq
Will succeed - 56% public believe
Will fail - 63% media clerics believe
Going to war in Iraq
Correct - 48% public believe
Wrong - 71% media clerics
Iraq war has helped or hurt the war on terrorism
Helped - 44% public believe
Hurt - 68% media clerics believe
Torture of terrorist suspects
often or sometimes justified - 46% public believe
rarely or never justified - 78% media clerics believe
Bush's job performance
42% public approve
21% media clerics approve
To Fox's credit, they discussed this poll several times. But, their "media analyst" Marvin Kalb justified that "journalists" always skeptical and that 's why their view differs from public.
Well, 80% of public believe that gay marriage is wrong. 90% of people believe in God. 95% of people believe America is a great country and fee patriotic on July 4. These are facts. there is nothing to be skeptical about real facts.
Heartland America is not Pakistani Madrassas to indoctrinate their views on peoples' mind.
A more intellectually honest report would be "journalists" are always negative. Sort of like a certain segment of the Freeper crowd who confuse being knee jerk critical with "being objective"
..."media analyst" Marvin Kalb justified that "journalists" always skeptical and that 's why their view differs from public."
And of course, the urinalists are correct and the 'public' is wrong because we are not worldly enough to understand.
Appears the "withdrawal" demand is but one thread of Campaign 2006 to reclaim the House of Representatives.
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