When you charge CNN and USA Today with "GOP Myths" among other things you know you are not making any sense.
Is this some kind of self-affirming liberal chat room?
Posted by LB Johnson at September 13, 2005 10:02 PMSteve,
What would make anyone think that the corporate ruling class that put President Ted Baxter in the White House would ever do anything but continue to shill for him, to cover for his serial failures and do whatever is necessary to disable any opposition?
Expecting them to do otherwise is a forlorn hope. It's just not part of their agendas.
Posted by James E. Powell at September 13, 2005 10:44 PMThe media's complicity in pandering and supporting Bush and this Administration will continue. What concerns me is the disabling of any opposition will follow us into the '06 elections.
Posted by Judith at September 13, 2005 11:19 PMGallup is notorious for overrepresenting Republicans in their polls, but in any case the proper comparison is to Gallup's own previous poll. That 1-point "increase" between the 2 Gallup polls is well within the margin of error which means there are no grounds to be confident that Bush didn't actually lose several points worth of support between the 2 Gallup polls. The margin of error point is even stronger than it may appear because when comparing results between 2 different polls the margin of error for the comparison is about 1.5x the margin of error on either of the polls alone.
This is clearcut misuse of polling results by ignorant journalists.
Posted by The Fool at September 14, 2005 12:26 AMI happened to be watching CNN the other day when this 'poll' was announced. Among other things, Blitzer made the comment that 'with the CNN results averaged with the other polls, Bush ends up with a 42% approval rating.'
Only the discerning - those who know how to compute averages - would have fully understood the spin, and even Blitzer had to know that he was putting lipstick on a pig.
Posted by pessimist at September 14, 2005 02:51 AMNot only are they NOT likely to give it up, they're almost certain to get worse.
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Posted by Michael Miller at September 14, 2005 04:00 AM