CNN's Tom Cohen Baffled by the Obama Popularity 'Disconnect,' Holds Re
July 4th, 2014 8:04 PM
A prominent exhibit explaining why the nation's trust in its media establishment has dropped to precipitous lows would likely include Tom Cohen's Thursday afternoon column at CNN expressing befuddlement over President Barack Obama's unpopularity.
After all, Cohen's headline crows that under Obama we have "more jobs" and "less war" (!), so there's a "disconnect" which must be explained. To…
MSNBC Downplays Poll Showing Obama Worst Modern Prez; Hyped Same Poll
July 2nd, 2014 4:00 PM
A Quinnipiac University poll published on July 2 found that 33 percent of Americans view President Obama as America’s worst modern president compared to 28 percent who picked George W. Bush.
Following the release of the poll, Chuck Todd, NBC News Chief White House Correspondent, Political Director and host of “The Daily Rundown” dismissed the findings and argued “these great and worst lists,…
New Republic Uses Phony Pew Poll Results to Trash 'Conservatives
June 27th, 2014 6:14 PM
In an exercise supposedly "aimed at understanding the nature and scope of political polarization in the American public, and how it interrelates with government, society and people’s personal lives," the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has published a 185-page report containing some of the most ridiculous either/or questions I have ever seen in a polling effort. Its mission…
Fox News Poll: 76 Percent Think IRS Destroyed Lerner E-mails; 12 Perce
June 26th, 2014 2:38 PM
A new Fox News survey tested Team Obama’s credibility: "The Internal Revenue Service says that two years of emails from IRS employees about targeting conservative and tea party groups were accidentally destroyed because of a computer crash and cannot be recovered. Do you believe the IRS that the emails were destroyed accidentally or do you think they were destroyed deliberately?"
The answer…
Gallup: Public's Confidence in News Media Sinks to Record Low
June 19th, 2014 1:52 PM
In its annual survey of the public's faith in 17 key institutions, TV news has fallen to a new low, with only the U.S. Congress ranking below it in terms of public esteem. Just 18 percent of U.S. adults say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in TV news, down from 23 percent who gave those answers last year. The previous record low was in 2012, when just 21 percent said…
NBC/WSJ Poll Cooks Its Common Core Questions, Fabricates Claim of Stro
June 19th, 2014 12:34 PM
Yesterday's NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll garnered a great deal of attention, primarily because of its findings about President Barack Obama, particularly the one showing showing that "54 percent – believe the term-limited president is no longer able to lead the country."
The poll also asked respondents a series of three questions on the Common Core standards which were clearly designed…
NBC/WSJ Poll: 54 Percent Say Obama 'Can't Lead, Get the Job Done'; 'Ni
June 18th, 2014 8:26 PM
Fifty-four percent of respondents in a brand new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll believe that President Obama "can't lead, get the job done," contrasted with 42 percent who say he can. What's more, a healthy plurality, 41 percent, also answered that "the performance of the Obama administration" has "gotten worse" in the past 12 months. Yet the NBC Nightly News ignored those stunning numbers in its…
Chuck Todd: Public Is Telling Obama 'Your Presidency Is Over' In New N
June 18th, 2014 11:50 AM
Appearing on Wednesday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent and political director Chuck Todd reported on the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showing President Obama's poll numbers taking a nose dive and made this stunning declaration: "This is as if the public is saying, 'Hey, buddy, your presidency is over. You may not believe it is, but your ability to lead and convince us…
After Cantor Loss, Frank Luntz Declares: 'We Republican Pollsters Suck
June 11th, 2014 4:30 PM
Appearing on Wednesday's CBS This Morning, Republican pollster Frank Luntz attacked his own profession following the surprising primary defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: "Right now there are 230 House Republicans who are waking up praying that they do not have Eric Cantor's pollster. Honestly – and I'm one of them – we Republican pollsters suck. We have no ability to be able to…
Agenda-Driven Much? CNBC's Dan Mangan, on Kaiser Poll: 'Shut Up About
May 30th, 2014 11:08 PM
In a report at CNBC on Thursday, Dan Mangan covered a "Kaiser Health Tracking Poll" which appears to have been pre-cooked for an administration which would love to have the press give Obamacare even less than the disproportionately low coverage that it has received since a few weeks after HealthCare.gov's diastrous initial rollout.
Mangan eagerly took the bait. His opening sentence: "And the…
AP's Klapper Ignores His Own Oct. 2012 Stories in Painting Benghazi Pa
May 20th, 2014 3:09 PM
If there was ever drop-dead obvious proof that it's more than fair to call the Associated Press the Administration's Press, it's in the opening phrase of the first sentence of the wire service's Monday morning report on the House's select committee on Benghazi: "Republicans hoping to ride their Benghazi investigation to a November election sweep ..." As far as reporters Donna Cassata and…
Politico Poll: 80 Percent of Voters in Competitive States Want Abortio
May 20th, 2014 9:36 AM
As is customary for a mainstream media outlet, Politico spun the results of its new poll question on abortion pretty much 180 degrees.
“When it comes to abortion rights, however, midterm voters are more aligned with Democrats than with Republicans: 54 percent say they support the right to an abortion either with no restrictions (19 percent) or some restrictions (35 percent)," they claimed. "…
Journalists Are Angry White Men, Fewer Republicans In Newsrooms Than I
May 14th, 2014 5:08 AM
Picking up on the new survey of journalists nationwide conducted for the School of Journalism at Indiana University, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra Saunders offered two amusing takes on it in her Tuesday column: > “The profession that dubbed the Republican Party a refuge for ‘angry white men’ is teeming with angry white men.”
Bernard Goldberg: ‘Ridiculous’ 50% of Journalists Are Independents
May 13th, 2014 12:37 AM
“I say the poll is ridiculous,” Bernard Goldberg declared on Monday’s O’Reilly Factor in doubting the accuracy of a survey in which 28 percent of journalists self-identified as Democrats and 50 percent claimed to be independents.
Goldberg was willing to buy that a mere seven percent of the press corps are Republican, “but only 28 percent of journalists say they’re Democrats and 50 percent…
