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Edited on Thu Sep-23-04 04:57 PM by calimary
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They NEVER, EVER have intro'ed him on the air or referred to him in any way that would offer any full-disclosure on this, the way MSNBC does, and fairly frequently, whenever they have that schmuck Frank Luntz on. He's a republi-CON pollster and they call him that. But on CNN, bill schneider is allowed to fly under the radar at ALL times.
I remember one REALLY glaring example awhile back, when the national polls showed Kerry with a lead just about everywhere (I think this was shortly after he'd picked Edwards as his running mate). All the polls showed this, including the ones that schneider likes to refer to. And on what, pray tell, did he spend 99.98 percent of his segment, that evening? He devoted his ENTIRE report to the polling results in North Carolina, wherein he gleefully carried on (again, for the ENTIRE SEGMENT) about how Edwards' choice wasn't helping Kerry in Edwards' home state (the numbers favored bush - and that was, at that time, one of the few states that showed such a thing). Then, after he'd stopped crunching the numbers and embellishing on the graphics, he came back with a one-line throw-away closer before throwing it back to Judy Woodruff - in which he said something to the effect of "but the rest of the states in our survey showed Edwards helping the ticket." ONE LINE. That was IT. Once again, there I was, screaming at the TV...
He focused the ENTIRE report on the ONE state where Edwards didn't have a positive impact on Kerry.
That's just one example off the top of my head.
But if you watch at any length, be SURE to notice his facial expressions. When the news is good, or upbeat, about Kerry, he's VERY sober. His face has a look on it that's as serious as that of an undertaker. When it's good for bush, schneider will just be bee-bopping along like a happy camper, and he will look every inch the part. It's ridiculously transparent. BTW, Frank Luntz behaves that way, too. You should have seen him trying to spin the numbers on the night when Kerry gave his acceptance speech at the Dem convention, and had clearly reached - AND impressed - more than a few of the folks in Luntz's "undecided" focus group. Luntz was as sober as a judge throughout that segment. It was CLEAR that these were results he was NOT comfortable or pleased with. Both he and schneider are the same: their facial expressions give them away every time. Watch and see (assuming, of course, that you can stomach it).
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