Friday, August 20, 2004

Stupid Poll Tricks by MSNBC

MSNBC runs a stupid lame poll titled:
Swift Boat Politics: Do you believe Sen. Kerry or the veterans behind the ad?

Here is my email to them. I'm sure that it will make a huge impact on them.

The slanderous claims in this ad and the people who paid for it have already been discredited.

That you would even think to run this kind of poll shows a lack of respect for the journalists within your organization. This is a stupid poll and a waste of your viewer’s time. Why don't you spend some time focusing on what is important in the news?

If you are so damn interested in War Records why don't you do some serious journalism and research George W. Bush's reason for not taking his flight medical? Why not talk to some of the vets that served with Bush in the Air National Guard during the period of time he went AWOL? Why, because they don't exist! Not one credible person has come forward to say they saw him there during the disputed time. There should be at least a dozen!

Do the Democrats need to fund a commercial in order for you to do some journalism? Or are you afraid that you might lose some money from the ads that the candidates run?

Where are the stories behind Bush's work with community service in 1973 (working for a minority children's program in Houston, PULL?) Doesn't this sound to anyone else like a community service job assigned by the court? Did he do something wrong at 26 that was expunged from his police record? That charge was published in two books, should you do a poll on that?

Oh, and by the way, I'm SICK of unscientific polls run on "news" websites. Do a scientific poll for goodness sake! This fake polling diminishes your credibility in the minds of all thinking people.

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