Tuesday, February 28, 2006

More cases of blatant bias...

RedState.org has this post regarding Zogby's move toward incredulity with respect to its ever burgeoning bias:
My first diary. I await the shellacking from my intellectual superiors.

I have been a member of Zogby's polling panel for several years now. Usually when I get the request marc@mail2.zogby.com it is only to take part in one of the surveys. Today to my surprise was different.

In the message area was the title "Zogby: US troops in Iraq: 72% say end the war." I opened it up and was shocked to see this survey results. Here is the linked page: http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1075

Nothing like these results have ever been talked about by anyone, including the anti-war talking heads. But in the third paragraph was the answer to how these numbers came about: the sponsor--Le Moyne College's Center for Peace and Global Studies.

The Center for Peace is another far left outfit that blames America for anything and everything. For example, it is the proud sponsor of something known as the CNY Peace Consortium. The conference is always filled with the usual supsects that find fault with America first. The keynote speaker for 2005's conference was Colman McCarthy. One of his numerous statements was, "On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr., said that "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government." He was right then and is right now. In only the past 20 years, the U.S. government has sent troops to kill or threaten to kill people in etc, etc." Other speakers listed were not so moderate as Mr. McCarthy in their remarks.
Not to be outdone, were the usual suspects at CBS:
In addition we have now the CBS poll with 409 Dem respondents and 272 Repub respondents (337 "independents). Last I looked Repub control the WH, Senate and House, yet in this poll they are outnumbered by a 10-7 margin.
So CBS comes out with a bogusly constructed poll, and the dinosaur media trolls are already out of the starting gates, as if what is being reported is gospel truth.

Don't let poor methodology get in the way of a good Bush-bashing. Fact checking be damned. Screw the truth.

And then the dinosaur MSM still has no clue why they have no credibility? Haven't they learned from Rathergate??

Gads, I now can only look upon what was once a great American institution of investigation and truth, the American media--with a deep sense of sadness at what is lost.

***UPDATE***

Newsbusters has more.

(Filed under the fifth column)