[GPSCC-chat] Check out this Newsmax poll Re: Govt shutdown

[Cameron L. Spitzer]

Newsmax is another Brietbart or Drudge.  They present press releases 
from Heartland (the main public relations firm for the fossil fuels 
industries' anti-science PR campaign) packaged as investigative 
reporting.  A lot of their material leads directly to the John Birch 
Society.  These outfits aren't just "biased," they make up lies from 
nothing.  I suspect the "survey" John forwarded is either made up by 
some PR firm or collected from one of their "vote on this survey" banner 
ads.  I intentionally don't use an ad blocker, and I see a *lot *of 
Newsmax ads, almost as many as Amazon's or whatever mail order company I 
bought from last month.  Like Limbaugh's and Beck's, the advertising on 
their site is for vanity-press books and gold-bugger and survivalist 
tracts, so I suspect they operate at a loss and get funding through 
something like Donors Trust.


On 10/08/2013 07:45 AM, Wes Rolley wrote:
> On 10/7/2013 11:50 AM, John Thielking wrote:
>> /
>> If the federal govt does shut down who would you blame the most?
>>
>> 52% President Barack Obama
>>
>> 36% Republicans in Congress
>>
>> 11% Democrats in Congress
>
> John, I am not sure about this source, but the last polling I saw on 
> TV news for a different take on the same question showed a very 
> different picture:  Do you approve or disapprove of their handling of 
> the budget and shutdown issue:
> Disapprove:  Republican Congress 70%
> Democratic Congress: 61%
> President Obama:  51%
>
> All negative, but Republicans by far the most negative.
> -- 
> "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, 
> then you are wasting your time on this Earth" - /Roberto Clemente/
>
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