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kentuck

(111,098 posts)
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 03:00 PM Aug 2015

Anything but "Fair and Balanced"...

FOX News is pushing a poll that asked if Hillary Clinton was "untrustworthy" and a "liar". I wonder if they asked the question of whether she used the "N" word when no one was around?

This is about the worst type of "journalism" you will encounter anywhere - except maybe on MSNBC and Morning Joe?

I am not a Hillary supporter but this is totally wrong and unfair, in my opinion. Besides "liar", what other names could they call her in the name of "fair and balanced"?

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Journeyman

(15,035 posts)
3. Is this a take from the poll this morning, that asked voters to describe candidates in one word?...
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 03:32 PM
Aug 2015

Of 1,500 participants, 178 described Ms Clinton as "liar," 123 said "dishonest," and 93 cited "untrustworthy."

A Quinnipiac poll, it's one of those silly-season canvasses designed to elicit some of the worst from people. How much more idiotic can it get, than the takeaway from the poll (as ascribed by the newspaper that reported it) highlights the response of only 12% of those polled to conclude that the results against Ms Clinton were "brutal." Hell, less than 27% used those "top three words."

The top word used to describe John Ellis Bush Bush is "Bush." (What greater detriment can there be in a political campaign?)

Trump is described as "arrogant."

So the selection of words used by Fox is something culled from others. Their choice to exclude Trump & Bush Bush in their poll is quite telling, however. And their decision to turn a silly-season word-play poll into yet another silly-season attack serves only to highlight how ridiculous they should be regarded as a "voice" in this, or any, election.

But of course, their viewers will eat it up.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027115477

kentuck

(111,098 posts)
4. They spend weeks on stories accusing her of being untrustworthy and a liar...
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 03:59 PM
Aug 2015

and then do a poll asking people to describe her in one word? What response did they think they would get?

They are doing a real hatchet job on Hillary Clinton. I suppose since they could not get Bernie Sanders to attack her, then they would do it themselves?

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