Posted on 11/20/2008 8:27:24 AM PST by IMissPresidentReagan
AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, the Mandarin of Talk Radio, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, Maha-Rushie! America’s anchorman, truth detector, and doctor of democracy. A Real Man, a living legend, a way of life. Commander in Chief of U.S. Operation Chaos. Chief Waga-Waga El Rushbo of the El Conservo Tribe. Chief of the Patriotism Police. A Weapon of Mass Instruction. El Rushbo (a little Spanish lingo, there). He is the man who is running America (you know it and I know it). He knows the Democrats like every square inch of his glorious naked body. He is ready to do what he was born to do—that’s host. Get ready to what you were born to do—that’s listen (and post your comments on the Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread).
I’ll take your word on it.
It’s the misuse of Economics that bothers me. Not Economics itself. It’s misuse makes it a pig science.
Anyone have the Rahm soundbite?
It’s easy to win when your supporters are idiots. Our president to be has been decided by idiots. Sigh.
The Royal Saudi Navy needs to defend Saudi ships like the Indian Navy defends Indian ships.
No, and I doubt Rush will.
http://www.marklevinshow.com/levinplayer/player.html#
Scroll down to auto rewind to hear recent shows.
I thought the 11/14 show in particular was great, and is worth a listen.
Everyone knew who had a prego duaghter and 150K of clothes
and no one knew who said there were 57 states.
“i am wondering how experts are always wrong but retain their title of expert “
It is the concept of false precision. I had this job doing IT research and put in one of my first reports that some product should get 40% market share. One of the veterans at the firm told me to, “never do that, even if you are guessing or some survey comes back at exactly 40% say ‘39.7%’ it sounds more precise.” I think that is what most economists are doing. They have an idea but to present the statisical uncertainty is just too hard for most people to grasp. Instead they put out a number even though getting to that level of precision is impossible. When I used to forecast earnings for a living I knew that being wrong by a penny would mean a stock could go up or down 5-10%. Meanwhile there are ALWAYS so many variables such that if you can get within 10% you are amazing and lucky. Crazy.
It is like the weather. If you live in Florida and all weekend it is in the 70s and you forecast 70 for Tuesday and it turns out it goes down to 44 you are an idiot. But if you forecast 43 or 45 or maybe even 42 or 48 you are pretty good - acceptable. But for an economist or analyst to pretend to be more precise is nutty but that is what people want. So they do it. People that out stock in false precision are fools. People that get buy with it are rich.
Rush doing the ‘ignorant’ 0bama voters...can’t wait til he gets to their vast knowedge of Sarah Palin...her daughter and her wardrobe.
I want to bitc# slap that skinny white girl (in thje corresponding video) who rolls her eyes and acts like she is going to gag when Zogby mentioned Palin.
Has he said much on the Ones birth certificate?
Rush, the Obama electorate got their news from US and People magazines
Ugh...talk about elitism.
Rush is referencing the poll linked below.
In addition to Boortz and Zogby below, here is another video by Howard Stern re: the typical Obama voter.
Howard Stern Show’ Quizzes Obama Supporters in Harlem on Candidate Policies
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=89a_1223927086
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Neal Boortz @ November 19, 2008 8:26 AM
HOW OBAMA GOT ELECTED
http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/index.html
Now that the election is over, this report by John Ziegler is making some waves. Maybe because it exposes some of the Obamamania. Also because it shows how the lamestream media was in the tank for Barack Obama in this election. And also because it demonstrates the fruits of our government education system.
Now I really don’t care what else you do today .. but please watch this video. On Election Day some Obama voters were chosen by the producers of an upcoming documentary “How Obama Got Elected.” These voters represented a cross-section: young and old, black and white, male and female. They were chosen based on their verbal abilities and willingness to express their feelings to a large audience.
Listen to these people. I promise you, you will be entertained.
Certainly it was hard to judge the true nature of Obama supporters based on the random ones selected for this video ... So the Zogby people were commissioned to conduct a telephone poll to ask a greater number of Obama supporters the very same questions asked of the people in the video. Oh and one other thing to keep in mind. The people were given multiple choice answers to these questions. Even with multiple choices, here were some of the results.
94% of Obama voters correctly identified Sarah Palin as the candidate with a pregnant teenage daughter.
86% of Obama voters identified Palin as the candidate who spent $150,000 on a campaign wardrobe.
86.9 % of Obama voters though that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though the quote actually came from Saturday Night Live.
Now for some news about the candidate they were supporting ....
57.4% of Obama voters could not correctly say which party controls congress. [Democrats]
82.6% of Obama voters could not correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot
88.4% of Obama voters could not correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket
56.1% of Obama voters didn’t know that Obama started his political career at the home of Bill Ayers, an unrepentant terrorist.
Now you have a measure, for good or bad, of some of the voters who went to the polls on Election Day awash in Obamamania. Do some of you now think that there are people voting who shouldn’t be allowed to vote? Remember, there is no constitutional right to vote in a presidential election.
Shouldn’t we be weeding some of these people off the voting rolls?
Also, here’s an interview with John Ziegler by Nate Silver. Oh my is it full of bad words!
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http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1642
Released: November 18, 2008
Zogby Poll: Almost No Obama Voters Ace Election Test
Survey finds most Obama voters remembered negative coverage of McCain/Palin statements but struggled to correctly answer questions about coverage associated with Obama/Biden
UTICA, New York — Just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores on a post election test which gauged their knowledge of statements and scandals associated with the presidential tickets during the campaign, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows.
Zogby Statement on Ziegler poll
Only 54% of Obama voters were able to answer at least half or more of the questions correctly.
The 12-question, multiple-choice survey found questions regarding statements linked to Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his vice-presidential running-mate Sarah Palin were far more likely to be answered correctly by Obama voters than questions about statements associated with Obama and Vice-President–Elect Joe Biden.
The telephone survey of 512 Obama voters nationwide was conducted Nov. 13-15, 2008, and carries a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percentage points. The survey was commissioned by John Ziegler, author of The Death of Free Speech, producer of the recently released film “Blocking the Path to 9/11” and producer of the upcoming documentary film, Media Malpractice...How Obama Got Elected.
“We stand by the results our survey work on behalf of John Ziegler, as we stand by all of our work. We reject the notion that this was a push poll because it very simply wasn’t. It was a legitimate effort to test the knowledge of voters who cast ballots for Barack Obama in the Nov. 4 election. Push polls are a malicious effort to sway public opinion one way or the other, while message and knowledge testing is quite another effort of public opinion research that is legitimate inquiry and has value in the public square. In this case, the respondents were given a full range of responses and were not pressured or influenced to respond in one way or another. This poll was not designed to hurt anyone, which is obvious as it was conducted after the election. The client is free to draw his own conclusions about the research, as are bloggers and other members of society. But Zogby International is a neutral party in this matter. We were hired to test public opinion on a particular subject and with no ax to grind, that’s exactly what we did. We don’t have to agree or disagree with the questions, we simply ask them and provide the client with a fair and accurate set of data reflecting public opinion.” - John Zogby
“After I interviewed Obama voters on Election Day for my documentary, I had a pretty low opinion of what most of them had picked up from the media coverage of the campaign, but this poll really proves beyond any doubt the stunning level of malpractice on the part of the media in not educating the Obama portion of the voting populace,” said Ziegler.
Ninety-four percent of Obama voters correctly identified Palin as the candidate with a pregnant teenage daughter, 86% correctly identified Palin as the candidate associated with a $150,000 wardrobe purchased by her political party, and 81% chose McCain as the candidate who was unable to identify the number of houses he owned. When asked which candidate said they could “see Russia from their house,” 87% chose Palin, although the quote actually is attributed to Saturday Night Live’s Tina Fey during her portrayal of Palin during the campaign. An answer of “none” or “Palin” was counted as a correct answer on the test, given that the statement was associated with a characterization of Palin.
Obama voters did not fare nearly as well overall when asked to answer questions about statements or stories associated with Obama or Biden — 83% failed to correctly answer that Obama had won his first election by getting all of his opponents removed from the ballot, and 88% did not correctly associate Obama with his statement that his energy policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry. Most (56%) were also not able to correctly answer that Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground.
Nearly three quarters (72%) of Obama voters did not correctly identify Biden as the candidate who had to quit a previous campaign for President because he was found to have plagiarized a speech, and nearly half (47%) did not know that Biden was the one who predicted Obama would be tested by a generated international crisis during his first six months as President.
In addition to questions regarding statements and scandals associated with the campaigns, the 12-question, multiple-choice survey also included a question asking which political party controlled both houses of Congress leading up to the election — 57% of Obama voters were unable to correctly answer that Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate.
For content, contact: John Ziegler at talktozig@aol.com.
For more information on Ziegler’s upcoming documentary film, Media Malpractice...How Obama Got Elected, please visit www.HowObamaGotElected.com , where there is a video of Obama voters on election day being asked many of the same questions.
For methodology, contact: Fritz Wenzel, 315-624-0200 ext. 229 or 419-205-0287 or fritz@zogby.com.
To view the survey results, please visit http://www.zogby.com/news/wf-dfs.pdf.
(11/18/2008)
Figures - bunch of morons think the presidential election is a freaking popularity contest
In line with the Zogby poll Rush was talking about, here’s more of what I sent out to my email lists this morning:
Take the Quiz http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx
Our Fading Heritage
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/
November 20, 2008
PRESS RELEASE: New Study Finds Americans Earn a Failing Grade When Tested on American History and Economics
MAJOR FINDINGS
Americans Fail the Test of Civic Literacy
Americans Agree: Colleges Should Teach America’s Heritage
College Adds Little to Civic Knowledge
TelevisionIncluding TV NewsDumbs America Down
What College Graduates Don’t Know about America
Additional findings: (This is the scary part)
Elected Officials Score Lower than the General Public
The ISI civic Literacy survey was not designed to test the civic knowledge of elected officials, but it did discover evidence of an interesting pattern that may merit further exploration.
The elected officeholders come from the ranks of Democrats (40%), Republicans (31%), Independents (21%), and those who say they belong to no party or indicate no affiliation (8%).
Are You Smarter Than a Politician? You can find out after you take the above quiz.
Yes, and Ms.’Made her Own Crappy 0bama Shirt’ didn’t know who Pelosi or Reid were. But gag her with a spoon at the mention of Gov. Palin’s name...hope she has to clean up trash for her Youth Service.
That was the other thing Chris Plante played all morning. "Where did you get your news from."
They said CNN almost everytime AND Jon Stewart! We are living with MORONS!
“Elected Officials Score Lower than the General Public.”
I would like to see economics education. There is very little. There are widely held erroneous economic conventional wisdoms across all political spectrums. For example: I hear liberals, conservatives and populists all say that when the government raises taxes they are all passed through to the consumer by the business. Simply not the case.
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