Friend to Pauline: "Well...he looks very nice. But where are his...you know...?"
Pauline to friend: "Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my Ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them."
Posted on 11/06/2014 8:25:15 AM PST by Din Maker
It’s clear now that most prognosticators underestimated the depth of the Republican triumph in the midterms by slavishly hewing to the polls.
Perhaps some journalists were depressed about the Democrats’ very bad night. The losing Democrats were bigger names—Sam Nunn’s daughter, Morris Udall’s son, Jimmy Carter’s grandson, David Pryor’s son, and folks like Charlie Crist and Kay Hagan—than such Republican newcomers as David Perdue and Thom Tillis.
One exception to the MSM’s Democratic-centric coverage has been crediting the Republican Party with recruiting good candidates. And GOP officials were happy to help reporters write that story.
“One night in early September, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called a longtime colleague, Sen. Pat Roberts, furious about the 78-year-old Republican’s fumbling and lethargic reelection campaign.
“McConnell was blunt. A shake-up was needed. Roberts unleashed a flurry of expletives at McConnell. Ultimately, though, the ex-Marine gave in. The next day, he led campaign manager Leroy Towns, 70, a retired college professor and confidant, into a Topeka conference room and fired him. Roberts, of course, held his seat after what looked like a strong challenge from independent Greg Orman.
Which brings me back to the question of polls. In the final stretch of the campaign, pundits on the left and the right portrayed Orman as a possible winner over Roberts. Alison Grimes as a possible winner over McConnell. Kay Hagan as a possible winner over Thom Tillis. Michelle Nunn as a possible winner over David Perdue. Bruce Braley a possible winner over Joni Ernst.
They did all of this, and more, on the basis of polls that showed these races to be incredibly tight, when in fact McConnell clobbered Grimes by 15 points and Nunn couldn’t even get to the runoff that everyone expected.
The political landscape changed Tuesday night.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I was polled nearly every day by someone or other during this election season. I lie to every single one of them.
Friend to Pauline: "Well...he looks very nice. But where are his...you know...?"
Pauline to friend: "Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my Ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them."
“We all need to remember this and not allow the polls to cause us to get our “panties in a wad” in 2016.”...
I made several similar statements prior to Tuesday’s elections. Polls are nothing more than wild guesses created by asking a select group of individuals who will more than likely give you the same absurd answers you seek. Basically, opinion polls are like noses (or whatever part you choose to refer to), every one has one.
The media hasn’t blamed the media yet. And they won’t.
All gay, every day. Climate change or we are doomed. The economy is fine, white middle class people should stop whining and pay their taxes. The Redskins are racists and should change their name. Sandra Fluke is a patriot. Duck Dynasty is for ignorant redneck a$$holes.
Nope, none of that had anything to do with what happened. That we trust the press less than we trust Congress had nothing to do with it either.
They got beat so bad, they couldn’t even cheat to win. George Snuffluppigus putting his thumb on the scale for Shaheen probably didn’t help Shaheen much either.
That is probably THING ZERO to put on the list of stuff this Congress needs to do:
“For all federal elections, proof of citizenship in the form of a photo identification is REQUIRED!!!!”
I'd bet dear Pauline would have found it clever as well. You should send a link to Wallace Shawn. He most likely knew her.
Although I doubt Shawn would appreciate being pointed to FR...
Great Post!
Thanks, I have used the word to confuse people in the past.
The media - or, as it is sometimes called, Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda - tends to confuse hoping for reality, then comes to believe its own bullsh*t.
They are democrats with press passes, as Glenn Reynolds is fond of saying.
“How on earth did Nixon win? I don’t know anyone who voted for him.”
Pauline Kael, NY Times, 1972
Exactly right. They live in their own echo chambers and are insulated from any reasoned arguments. The stupid just bounces around over and over till the dumbest ideas sound good to them.
I’m thinking it’s the old “follow the money”.
Who got rich off all the ads paid for by Hollywood and liberal billionaires?
Network news is reporting politics in a way that enhances their bottom line. They hire liberal reporters because those reporters have the passion of true believers to sell the lie, which makes more money for the networks.
News is just another fake reality show.
Since Tuesday night, has anyone heard a peep out of George Clooney, Babs Streisand, Ashley Judd, Ben Affleck or Gwyneth Paltrow?
I laughed at that Frank Lumptz. He was wrong on the ads and much of the rest. LOL
I laughed at that Frank Lumptz. He was wrong on the ads and much of the rest. LOL
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Oh yeah. The day before the Election, he showed a Kay Hagan ad and said: “She’s going to win because of that ad.” WRONG!!!
Your Post #37 really did make me LOL. I needed a little laugh this afternoon.
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