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Brian Redman wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
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> >From Capitol Hill Blue, 4/7/99:
>
> The Rant
>
> I am, therefore I rant. . .
>
> The poll that wasn't
>
> They held a small celebration at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Tuesday. As
> celebrations go, it wasn't much of a gala, but things to celebrate
> have been few and far between at the House of Clinton these days.
>
> The celebration came with a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll that
> says a majority of Americans now support Bill Clinton's Kosovo war and
> would also support the use of ground troops.
>
> So there were a few high-fives and back slaps issued as the the
> illusion masters of the Clinton administration congratulated
> themselves on yet another propaganda victory.
>
> A week of televised images of Kosovo refugees had paid off. Bill
> Clinton now has the American public behind him.
>
> Or does he? Like Bill Clinton's Presidency, the poll released Tuesday
> appears to be more than it really is.
>
> The poll was conducted by Hart Research, a Democratic polling firm
> whose clients include many Democratic members of Congress, the AFL-CIO
> and a President named William Jefferson Clinton. Fred Yang, the Senior
> Vice President for Hart, often writes articles that offer "the
> Democratic perspective" on issues for magazines like Campaigns and
> Elections.
>
> Before the key questions were asked, those polled were told: "As you
> may know, hundreds of thousands of civilians have been forced to leave
> Kosovo." And the question on ground troops was worded to invoke
> emotion: "Would you favor or oppose a decision to send U.S. and NATO
> soldiers into Serbia if the Serbs continue to drive people out of
> Kosovo?"
>
> In the polling business, this is called stacking the deck, wording the
> questions in a way to make sure you get the answers you want.
>
> "If you want an honest poll about the actions of a Democratic
> president, you don't hire a pollster who works for the Democratic
> party. Hart is considered one of the most partisan firms around," says
> Dr. Ralph Bakke, a retired professor who taught demographics and
> polling. "You either hire an independent pollster or you hire polling
> firms from both sides and aggregate their results."
>
> US News & World Report, for example, publishes a series of
> "battleground" polls that uses both Democratic and Republican
> pollsters.
>
> NBC and the Wall Street Journal, however, chose to go the partisan
> route and the results of their poll gave them just the story they
> wanted to trumpet in print and over the airwaves today.
>
> There are many things you can call this: Cooking the books and
> stacking the deck are just two.
>
> One thing you can't call this is honest journalism.
>
> --Doug Thompson
> Founder, Publisher & Editor
> Capitol Hill Blue
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
Did you all notice that NO polls were presented to the public for
almost two weeks. Isn't it curious that the polls being televised
show support for the White House.
Does anyone know which PR firms are handling this war?
Joshua2
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