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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 10:33 AM
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The UNFAIRNESS of the filibuster poll questions
Edited on Thu Apr-28-05 10:34 AM by underpants
See it's not fair. The liberal media isn't asking the question right. THIS is how it should be asked.


Nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh read aloud from the MRC report on the April 26 edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show and stated: "So an accurate poll question would be, 'Do you support or oppose the Democratic Party's unprecedented effort to filibuster judicial nominees, which has never been done before?' "

I heard that the other day while getting lunch and I couldn't remember all of it. I swear that isn't to far from our own Bob Boudelang.

Here is the rest of the Media Matters article on the immediate discrediting of bad news for the Republicans.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200504270007

On April 26, Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal.com editor James Taranto asserted that the Post poll was "phony" because neither question on judicial nominations "used the word filibuster" or "even described the procedure."

On the April 26 edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country, Media Research Center (MRC) president L. Brent Bozell III claimed the poll was evidence that "The Washington Post and ABC are on the side of the Democrats." Earlier that day, MRC released a "CyberAlert" that also attempted to discredit the poll:



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vickie Donating Member (663 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 11:07 AM
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1. This would be hilarious, if it weren't so Goebles-like...
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