Saturday, October 15, 2005
Media Lying bastard...
Last night while visiting with my rabidly Republican brother-in-law, the issue of Bush’s sinking poll numbers came up; and all the buzz in the media, which according to him, was premature folly.
Yes, no need for glee, he sagely told me. You see, as low as Bush’s polling numbers are, even more people dislike Democratic leaders in Congress.
And how does my brethren know...?
Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, host O’Reilly, the man of no-spin on Fox News, told him so.
Twirling and spinning faster than tumbleweed across the desert during a sand storm, this is what O'Reilly said: :
Last night while visiting with my rabidly Republican brother-in-law, the issue of Bush’s sinking poll numbers came up; and all the buzz in the media, which according to him, was premature folly.
Yes, no need for glee, he sagely told me. You see, as low as Bush’s polling numbers are, even more people dislike Democratic leaders in Congress.
And how does my brethren know...?
Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, host O’Reilly, the man of no-spin on Fox News, told him so.
Twirling and spinning faster than tumbleweed across the desert during a sand storm, this is what O'Reilly said: :
Now you would think the Democrats would be looking better to Americans because the Republican administration is having so many problems, but according to a new poll taken by Pew last week, Americans like the Democratic leadership less than they like Mr. Bush.
The poll question asked do you approve or disapprove of the job the Democratic leaders in Congress are doing? Only 32 percent approve; 48 percent disapprove; 20 percent don't know.
So 40 percent of Americans approve of President Bush's job performance, according to the latest FOX News poll. And only 32 percent approve of the Democratic leadership.
You gotta love this guy for once again taking “diassembling” to the homespun Republican Spin Zone.
Here are the facts. Although the most recent poll by the Pew Research Institute does in fact show only 32 percent of Americans approve of the job Democratic leaders are doing in Congress, there is a big, humongous, colossal, walloping bit of context missing from O'Reilly's remarks, such as Republican leaders in Congress fared just as poorly. Only 32 percent think Republicans are doing a good job.
O'Reilly also failed to point out to his viewers that in the same poll, participants want to see Democrats win in next year's election by the not-too-shabby margin of 9 percent.
What's more, when our no-spin tube master cited a 40 percent approval for Bush and compared it to the Democratic approval rate, he was using two cross polls, one by Pew Research and the other by Fox News. You had to be paying extra close attention to catch it.
Hmm...let's see. Using O'Reilly's "no-spin" methodology, we can now report only 37 percent of Americans approve of the job President Bush is doing. By the substantial margin of 9 percent, Americans also hope Democrats win Congress in next year's election and hold the president accountable.
That’s fair and balance, no…? One figure from CBS; the other from Pew; and concluding analysis courtesy of the very partisan Howling Latina.
Indeed, and most unscrupulous. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than illumination." Andrew Lang
Here are the facts. Although the most recent poll by the Pew Research Institute does in fact show only 32 percent of Americans approve of the job Democratic leaders are doing in Congress, there is a big, humongous, colossal, walloping bit of context missing from O'Reilly's remarks, such as Republican leaders in Congress fared just as poorly. Only 32 percent think Republicans are doing a good job.
O'Reilly also failed to point out to his viewers that in the same poll, participants want to see Democrats win in next year's election by the not-too-shabby margin of 9 percent.
What's more, when our no-spin tube master cited a 40 percent approval for Bush and compared it to the Democratic approval rate, he was using two cross polls, one by Pew Research and the other by Fox News. You had to be paying extra close attention to catch it.
Hmm...let's see. Using O'Reilly's "no-spin" methodology, we can now report only 37 percent of Americans approve of the job President Bush is doing. By the substantial margin of 9 percent, Americans also hope Democrats win Congress in next year's election and hold the president accountable.
That’s fair and balance, no…? One figure from CBS; the other from Pew; and concluding analysis courtesy of the very partisan Howling Latina.
Indeed, and most unscrupulous. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than illumination." Andrew Lang
// posted by Howling Latina @ 4:41 PM 
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Your brother-in-law sounds just like my brother-in-law. Actually like most of my relatives. Maybe we are premature because the worst polls for Bush are yet to come. Perfect quote of the "drunken man". :)
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