From: Robert Naiman <[email protected]>
Schoen is a well-known liar and corporate hack. He is trolling for corporate clients with his spin. No word he says should be taken at face value. BREAKING: Doug Schoen Grossly Misrepresents His Own Poll Results To Smear Occupy Wall Street http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/18/347165/breaking-doug-schoen-grossly-misrepresents-his-own-poll-results-to-smear-occupy-wall-street/ ^^^^^^^^ CB: I didn't know that. I don't quite see how the summary of his survey smears the OWS, though. They sound really sensible in the survey. And i've been to Occupy Detroit about 6 or 7 times, and the young revolutionaries are acting very mature, smart, true "grandchildren" of the sixties movements, but on a higher political level. They have learned from our mistakes and learned from our advances. Schoen's conclusions and "advice" below seem kind of funny, and desperate. A couple of other articles by right-wingers that were posted on LBO-talk had right-wingers opining that Obama's saying nice things about OWS would hurt him in the election , as Schoen does " "President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a > critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement?and it may > cost them the 2012 election." Uhhhh not really Schoen. OWS is looking like > it might be about to send the Tea Party and Republicans down to defeat, not > to mention put a big hit on the bourgeoisie in terms of laws on Wall Street > and banking . Schoen's conclusions about "the > movement" as a whole, led him to write that Occupy Wall Street is > "dangerously out of touch" with American values and that protesters > are "bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies." I know that Schoen is trying to smear the protestors here, but I'd say he's feeding into a trend of rightwingers redbaiting something that is very popular, which could backfire with communism and socialism becoming popular instead of the OWS movement and anti-capitalist proposals becoming unpopular. > Here's a little bit more about Doug Schoen's survey of 200 Occupy Wall > Street protesters, which he wrote about in today's Wall Street > Journal. > > In the Journal column, Schoen, who is Michael Bloomberg's pollster, > said the survey, conducted by a senior researcher at his firm, was the > first "systematic random sample of Occupy Wall Street opinion." Its > findings, which formed the basis for Schoen's conclusions about "the > movement" as a whole, led him to write that Occupy Wall Street is > "dangerously out of touch" with American values and that protesters > are "bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies." His > lead was, "President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a > critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement?and it may > cost them the 2012 election." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
