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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 11:54 PM
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Another example of Faux News' "fair and balanced" reporting style...
It seems that Rupert Murdoch and Co. over at Fox were displeased with the most recent poll results re:Shrub's approval rating, so not only did they conduct thier own http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144315,00.html
they keep running these numbers on thier crawl as if they are legit.
Can't we sue them for false advertising, or generally assholish behavior?:wtf:
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KnightoftheRepublic Donating Member (76 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 11:56 PM
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1. no way.
48%??? :wtf:
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snowbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 11:56 PM
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2. But if we don't watch Faux... Why does it matter?
I don't watch it. So I could care less what they tell their brainless viewers.

I'm not one of em ;) !
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 12:01 AM
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3. It's like a car wreck...
I don't want to watch, but sometimes I can't help myself. My husband calls it masochism without the sex or nipple clamps.:smoke:
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 12:02 AM
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4. Spin
"We at the propaganda arm of the Republican Party have conducted our own poll, taken, of course, of people who have suffered the worst effects of our propaganda-catapulting exercise.

As such, their approval rating of our great President is MUCH higher than that exhibited by those who watch such 'liberal' news sources as CNN and MSNBC.

More proof that Fox News is Fair and Balanced!"


Methane breathers. Hey, guys? Why don't you pull your heads out of your asses and breathe oxygen with the rest of us?
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 12:16 AM
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5. All of the fucking polls are wrong!
Faux' just happen to be a couple of numbers higher than all of the rest. But don't be fooled.....the Gallup polls are literally working with Times and CNN, the Wall Street polls are working with GE, and they all come out with way better numbers then the reality. And they all toot their own polls.

I watched them all very closely during the '04 primaries and the election.

How else is the media going to manipulates public opinions?

So watch for those Hillary Clinton polls. You will be seeing a lot of them!
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 12:18 AM
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6. You are kidding. You have to be.
If this is true, send it to Media Matters. I've never heard of any media outlet's doing this. They all love to draw attention to their television stations, but this is ridiculous.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 01:17 AM
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9. really,
you haven't?

You've never seen the Times/CNN/Gallup polls results crawling on the bottom of the screen....while Judy 'you ignorant slut' woodgruff was talking on the set?

Do you watch cable?
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MeDeMax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 12:30 AM
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7. utter crock...n/t
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quinnox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 12:48 AM
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8. typical Faux
Watch the next poll show Bush over 50%, yea right.

Heck, if he only gets 48% from Fox viewers that is still awful.
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 01:33 AM
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10. Faux News.............
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 01:40 AM
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11. Hey a new slogan...
"Fox News...entertainment for the sheeple"
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 01:54 AM
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12. Baaaaaaaa...Baaaaah
:spray:

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chalky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 03:09 AM
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13. So let me get this straight: Even among the RABID FOX VIEWERS
the best the asshole can conjur up is a 48% approval rating?

tsk.


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ngGale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 03:45 AM
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14. Now that's a positive reaction...
thank you, you speak the truth.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 06:11 AM
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15. the same approval rating the bastard had on election day
too freaking funny
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 06:13 AM
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16. Yeah...when I saw it was a EXCLUSIVE FOX survey....
I figured Chimp was in for a 98% approval rating but...the best is 48%?? BAWHAHAHA...........
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chalky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 11:23 AM
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17. Just checked that MSNBC poll that has dear Rupert so envious
42725 responses

94% yes
6% no

Out of 42725 responses, only 2564 people think Shrubbish is a-okay.

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Kittycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 11:58 AM
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18. They Sicken me!!! n/t
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