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More CBS Lies! CBS Poll: A Majority want Terri to die?
PAT CADDELL (DEMOCRATIC POLLSTER): Well I'm very concerned, because I've always said in the years I was polling, that if you tell me the results you want and I'll write the questions for you. Now sometimes we ask people when they don't have a lot of information, this is a very complex case, what they think. But what's being presented in these polls, particularly with CBS when it's so disturbing to me because it's being cited everywhere, and it's not being cited accurately. But when you start your survey interviewing people, and describe a situation which is not the actual condition of Terri Schiavo, you have a problem. But even more importantly, the question that has been drawing the most attention is the argument that 82% of the people said they didn't want the President or Congress involved in this matter. Well that's not what the question was actually asked. The question that was asked on the poll was whether they should be involved in determining, in deciding what should happen to her. I happen to disagree with what the Congress did, but that is not what they did. They simply allowed her the right to go to Federal Court to seek a review of the facts. This is being presented, and then everyone is saying well look, we have a huge majority of evangelicals concerned, everyone's saying they're against it. That means George Bush is in trouble, everyone's opposed to this. That's not what was asked. And you have to be very careful, both that people understand the actual situation, and form the questions the way that people can make a proper judgment.... this verges on a push-poll, which you-- CADDELL: Yes. Exactly. SELLERS: So if you ask enough questions you can lead up to an answer that you want. Do you think CBS is doing that purposely, or carelessly, or what? CADDELL: I don't--I never--let me just put it this way. Usually they do their surveys most of the time in conjunction with the New York Times. This was one they did separately. I have to tell you, when I've seen complex issues, only once, which is in the Los Angeles Times with the recall here in California, have I seen a survey that made me wonder whether or not the results were prejudged before they were written. This poll is so basically designed to produce certain results, and then is being reported as such, makes me very concerned. Now it could be just pure incompetence, however I suspect that there's more here than that. SELLERS: Can you give-- CADDELL: And I'm a pollster. My business, it's not about where you stand on the political scale. If you're in the business of public opinion, it is to give the American people a proper reflection of their voice once they've had a chance to properly reflect what the actual facts are. It is not to design a poll to come out and try to drive the news media. Is there somone, (anyone?) that can get thru to the Blogosphere - PLEASE push this to them - the public is unaware the CBS is once again distorting background and fooling the American people with false news in order to drive their Anti-Bush agenda further. THIS MUST STOP - and we need the blogosphere to jump on this push-poll and CBS's abuse of it - and the MSM's echo of the poll as gospel! Posted by: OldSpook 2005-03-28 |
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