Posted on 04/29/2021 1:00:59 PM PDT by Red Badger
Many conservatives voiced skepticism about the 85% number quoted by CBS News following Joe Biden's speech. They were right to be skeptical.
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Following Joe Biden’s off speech before a reduced joint session of Congress yesterday, CBS News and YouGov released a poll showing 85% of Americans liked the speech and said it gave them hope for the future. This morning, progressives on Twitter were quite proud that their guy performed so well and that his message resonated. Allegedly.
But conservatives were skeptical. Even if we ignore the near-impossibility of any speech by anyone appealing to 85% of a wide-ranging poll, especially with the hyper-polarized political landscape in American, it’s still hard to fathom that so many would have liked THAT speech. It was incoherent at times, failed to address the border crisis which is top-of-mind for millions of Americans, threatened unpopular gun control being imposed on us, and was arguably the most radically leftist speech given by a sitting president in history.
85% of Americans endorse that? How could that be? As it turned out, the poll wasn’t exactly the most unbiased, and I’m being delicate with my words. The truth of the poll is that it was a propaganda piece, a heavily biased and meticulously coordinated attack on our intelligence. Democrats outnumbered Republicans more than three-to-one and left-leaning “independents” made up as much as a quarter of the total surveyed.
According to The National Pulse:
In a stunningly duplicitous story aimed at shoring up the response to Biden’s speech, CBS claimed on television and on their website: “Most viewers who tuned in to watch President Biden’s speech liked what they heard and came away feeling optimistic about America.”
What they didn’t tell their viewers, nor readers, is that the poll was wildly biased towards self-identifying “Democrats” and traditionally left-leaning “Independents” and self-described “Moderates”.
They polled 510 Democrats, and just 169 Republicans. They added 235 “Independents” to the methodology, which also usually skew left. A further 3 percent were not identified.
One might want to give CBS and YouGov the benefit of the doubt by saying they had a bad draw with the 943 people they surveyed. Except, they didn’t survey 943. They surveyed 10,420 and then hand-selected the respondents they wanted to include in their “scientific” poll. In other words, they could have just as easily picked out only those who didn’t like the speech and made it 100% negative and it would have been just as valid.
They didn’t conduct a survey for the sake of data. They performed what appeared to be a survey and then crafted it to fit their narrative knowing their adoring fans like Rob Reiner and Dean Obeidallah would echo whatever number they selected.
Conservatives reacted negatively to the notion well before the truth was revealed.
I’m shocked! SHOCKED! to hear Xiden stole another election! /s
They are showing how to tell lies with numbers. Democrats/liberals/socialists only lie when they are writing or their lips are moving.
well, if you tuned in and stayed for the entirety, you are already suspect...so I wouldn’t be surprised that 85% of the 11 million who suffered through it probably did love it. And Chrissy Wallass loved it too, so there’s that.
Pretty much the same as their audience demographics.
Continually lying to us even when they’ve been caught out time after time after time.
This book has never been out of print since about 1948 or so...........HMMMMMMMMMMMMM................
And I have an original copy...................
And serious soy boy news commentator, Tony Dokopoul presented it as some sort of science based factual poll.
What a fool, this is what they give us on that laughable CBS This Morning comedy show.
At least following that hilarious piece of BS you could watch Rick Scott spank that other soy boy, Anthony Mason so all he could utter was butt, butt, butt.
Yep. 85% fallen asleep
These are the people who actually bothered to tune in. I bet they would have said the same thing about the Oscars on Sunday night.
Before the State of the Union Address, Biden's already dubious 52% approval rating dropped overnight to 48% approval with like a 46% disapproval rate.
The media propping up worked with Obama because he had the Black Messiah mojo, but Biden is an old, nearly dead white guy and he just does not have it goin’ on.
Remember how the pollsters were all going to be ashamed? Yeah, they got over it pretty quickly.
Utter nonsense.
“CBS stacked bogus ‘85% of Americans loved Joe Biden’s speech’ poll with Democrats 3-1 over Republicans”
Watch Biden’s speech? I’d rather watch a dog vomit.
Lying and stealing right in front of our faces for over a year so why stop now. So 85% of bidens family and friends loved the speech..
More the reason why polls have little to no validity, and yet, people, media, etc. are still going to them and citing them. Go figure.
If I remember correctly, when a CBS poll said a majority of the State of the Union watchers approved of Trump’s speech, CBS usually says its because those who watched Trump’s speech are mostly Republicans. I wonder if they explain away Biden’s speech in tonight’s (April 29, 2021) CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.
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