Terrifyingly difficult Wolf Blitzer daily poll

[Judi Lynn]

>>> Wolf Blitzer

QUESTION OF THE DAY
Whom do you blame for the mistake in the president's State of the Union address on Iraq?

President Bush
British intelligence
CIA


http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/wolf.blitzer.reports/

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. :think:

[batman]

1. OOOOHH

94% say Bush!!!

[Cocoa]

16. being freeped by Tenet?

Maybe that's what he and the boys are doing today. :-)

[ignatius]

26. Now that is funny...I wouldn't want the CIA

on my bad side.

[Az]

2. Did you see the numbers

Good grief. Bush is toast.

Whom do you blame for the mistake in the president's State of the Union address on Iraq?
President Bush 94%
British intelligence 1%
CIA 5%

[jpgray]

3. Ha! Tough luck Condi!

94% Bush!

[patdem]

4. bush* 94%...but I understand....'mistake...what mistake?'

[retread]

37. The only "mistake" is hubris. Gets them every time.

*

[thebeaglehaslanded]

5. 94% know Chimpy lied.

[Doug Decker]

6. Have the freepers given up on "freeping" polls?...

Look at these results at 1:12pm pdt

Whom (sic) do you blame for the mistake in the president's State of the Union address on Iraq?

President Bush 94%
British intelligence 1%
CIA 5%

I hate when people use "whom" incorrectly.

[TahitiNut]

49. Apparently some script kiddies turned on Mickey Mouth*

I doubt that freepers in general are able to make all online polls swing wildly. Some of the online polling has sufficient safeguards against wholesale poll-busting. For the technically-inclined, however, cobbling together a (spoofed IP) HTML interaction (protocol emulation) that provides the 'appropriate' responses to cookies would be a walk in the park. There are many thousands of folks (many of them unemployed in the Busholini eronomy) with enough technical expertise to do this. It really ain't rocket science, just the tiresome minutiae of TCP/IP/HTML protocol emulation.


IMHO, "whom" is properly used (as the object) in the polling question, and I'm a "whom"-er variety of nitpicker. :silly:

Consider the rephrased: "Do you blame (whom) for the mistake <sic> ...? " and "You blame (whom) for the mistake <sic> ... !"

See? (Clearly, "mistake" is the inappropriate term which should be <sic>'ed.)

[yorgatron]

7. 94% BUSH!

it SHOULD be 100%,but 5% actually want to pin this on the CIA,and 1% are dumb enough to think it's the british...

[mike6640]

8. oooh

holding at 94% but it doesn't say how many votes so far....

[ibegurpard]

9. Well, to make this a truly meaninful poll for freepers...

...Clinton needs to be an option. The three current options doesn't give them much of a choice

[OrdinaryTa]

21. You Mean Clinton's PENIS

Maybe there should be separate categories between Clinton and Clinton's penis. Clinton is too shifty a character himself to accept any blame. But you can always blame things on that willful dick of his. It's out of control, and everybody knows it. Especially the Freepers.

[ibegurpard]

38. My email to Blitzer

Mr. Blitzer:
This is hardly a fair poll for conservatives. After all, you left off their favorite whipping boy: William Jefferson Clinton. How can you expect a truly represenative answer when the reason for every conservative complaint is not even part of the question?

:P

[karlschneider]

10. Shrub 94% but not up to 500 votes yet......n/t

[Az]

11. Did you read the articile next to it

Wolfie is giving Powel a virtual hand job. Supporting the brush off that it was all just a mistake.

[ignatius]

12. Oh please let it be true. The American blinders are coming

off. Oh thank you Lord, I can see!!!

[AngryWhiteDemocrat]

13. COUGH

Whom do you blame for the mistake in the president's State of the Union address on Iraq?
President Bush 94%
British intelligence 2%
CIA 4%

On edit - MISTAKE????? MISTAKE??????

IT WAS A FRIGGING LIE!!!!!!!!

[rooboy]

14. That poll is ridiculously biased...

so I went to the website and voted for Bush.

[rock]

24. Good one. LOL

They also said "Bush has half a brain". But I defended him and said, "He does not!"

[supernova]

15. Woo Hoo, nobody's buying the WH spin

Still, it would help if Wolfie posted # of people to take the poll.

[LEW]

17. Yep

smirk is not going to wiggle out of this one that quick -


B-)

[spinbaby]

18. It wasn't a mistake, dammit!

Why can't they say LIE?

[librechik]

19. Truman said the buck stops at HIS desk

But then, he was a Democrat, and willing to take responsibility for the words that came out of his mouth. Bush has "people" for that...

[RainDog]

41. the only buck that stops with Bush is a campaign contribution

I hate the lying little shit and I hope he not only gets investigated for lying, I hope he is charged with a felony for this lying, and is then charged for war crimes in the International Court.

[PretzelWarrior]

20. only several hundred voices so far....see how it goes later

it would be funny if it stayed around 90%.

More importantly, I am curious about Quinnepac, Gallup, Zogby, etc. on people's view of Iraq, WMD, Economy, BUsh,etc. in the next few days.

[west michigan]

22. 95% Bush

War like the various tax cuts Are a happening in search of a reason.

[Loki]

23. My my..............

put some more lipstick on that pig Condi! Oh how good it feels to watch them squirm.

[radfringe]

25. HEEEE-HAAAAWWWW

Created: Fri Jul 11 14:47:17 EST 2003
Whom do you blame for the mistake in the president's State of the Union address on Iraq?
President Bush 95% 864 votes
British intelligence 1% 12 votes
CIA 3% 30 votes
Total: 906 votes

[dweller]

27. 95% *moron

1% brits
3% cia

728 votes so far.

dp

[Buns_of_Fire]

28. It's still running 95% Bunnypants as of this writing (16:25 Eastern)

It's not the "British Intelligence State of the Union Address." It's not the "CIA State of the Union Address." It's not even the "Rumsfeld State of the Union Address" (not officially, anyway). The responsibility lies (so to speak) right at the doorstep of the Oval Office (not that I think for a minute * takes any responsibility for it).

[trof]

29. can it be? 95% * ?

I sent this comment. Wonder if he'll run it?
"Whatever happened to personal responsibility?
Whatever happened to "It happened on my watch, so I'm responsible."?
All I hear is spin and all I see is finger pointing.
Sayonara George Tenet,
Scapegoatus Maximus."

[berry]

30. Bush 95% Brits 1% CIA 4% with 816 voting

nt

[qb]

31. 96%

[DiverDave]

32. This is

TOO EASY!!
(apologies to "White men can't jump")

God I sprayed Iced tea on the monitor when I saw the results.

Created: Fri Jul 11 14:47:17 EST 2003
Whom do you blame for the mistake in the president's State of the Union address on Iraq?
President Bush 96% 1297 votes
British intelligence 1% 17 votes
CIA 3% 43 votes
Total: 1357 votes

HEY FREEPERS!! LOOK! you better vote a WHOLE BUNCH OF TIMES EACH TO HELP THIS ONE!!

BWAAHAHAHA!!

33. If it stays over 90% Wolf won't air it

I guarantee it.

[northofdenali]

34. Still 96% Shrub -

Wolf announced the bad numbers yesterday........will this trend continue?

[GOPHater]

35. WOW!

96% say Dumbya! I'm beginning to get some hope.

[StopTheMorans]

36. 96% for the Shrub!!!!!

Whom do you blame for the mistake in the president's State of the Union address on Iraq?
President Bush 96% 1652 votes
British intelligence 1% 19 votes
CIA 3% 54 votes
Total: 1725 votes

[ElementaryPenguin]

39. There you have it. *'s true approval rating! 3%!!!!

When it rains it pours, Evil ChimpCo!!!

[toska]

40. Bush's lips were moving

I seem to recall that it was Bush in front of congress doing the talking not Tenet. Bush has the ultimate responsibility to make sure what he says is accurate.

Condi had to be the most worthless NSA in US history. Her role seems to be more like a security version of Ari rather than an adviser.

[Heddi]

42. 95% BUSH---2pm PST

Whom do you blame for the mistake in the president's State of the Union address on Iraq?
President Bush 95% 2057 votes
British intelligence 1% 30 votes
CIA 3% 71 votes
Total: 2158 votes

[hatrack]

43. 95% Chimp, 2% Brits, 3% Spooks - as of 5:00 EDT nt

.

[joanski0]

44. Out of 7,761 votes

95% blame chimpy.

[tom_paine]

45. I wanted to vote for Clinton's Penis

I can't understand why a Wolfie poll wouldn't have that as an option?

[Poll_Blind]

46. Just got done voting...Doesn't look good for arbusto!

95% say BUSH!

PB

[trof]

47. kick

[trof]

48. kick

vote quick

[renegade000]

50. what a refreshing feeling...there still is sanity int he world

kick

[jos]

51. 95% Bush

:bounce:

[joanski0]

52. Final vote

Over 11,000 people voted.

95% Bush

1% British

3% CIA

[ElementaryPenguin]

53. Hmm. Might be some time before they try to sell us on a * 90% approval

Rating!!!! He only lied about starting a fucking war - nothing serious - like lying about SEX!! The evil, clueless, now badly wounded Chimp's true approval rating is probably hovering around 4 or 5%--max!!!!

[wellstone_democrat]

54. why, they could use this poll!

Seems to me that it can be spun effectively! All they have to do is leave out the question and claim that 95% of the 11K people recently responding to a CNN poll said, in effect, : "Bush is the man!"

Thus, they can spin gold from dross and up his current phony rating by 5 points. Don't underestimate 'em.

[WilliamPitt]

55. 12,000+ votes (95%) for the dumbfuck

:)