ANTI-BUSH MEDIA SLANTS POLL QUESTIONS
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
That’s how the liberal mainstream media comes out with the public against US President George W. Bush on so many issues. The liberal press slants the questions to bring out the results they want.
Then they report their results on newsfeeds as if they’re gospel truth. They’re not gospel truth. They’re manufactured poll results to slam Mr. Bush while enhancing the liberal agenda.
Herman Cain, Outside View Commentator for UPI, provides a specific read out on this underhanded tactic via The Washington Times. His write-up is appropriately and colorfully entitled: “A Skunk in the Polls.”
The bottom line is what rational persons have suspected for a long, long time: that we the grassroots simply can’t believe poll results from liberal newscasters. We did not believe them during the presidential campaign last year. And we still don’t believe them.
Now the latest poll twist regards Mr. Bush’s report on his social security efforts. Liberal press states that the public simply doesn’t buy into any of it, basically. But that’s not reality America. As Mr. Cain points out, the truth is that citizens are behind Mr. Bush’s rational approach to social security. It’s all in the way the questions are asked, in other words.
“The major media outlets have based most of their headlines and stories on their own polling data. The skunk in the polls is that most media outlets are predetermining the results of their polls by asking the wrong questions. They then distort their stories to indicate that the public opposes personal retirement accounts.
“For example, an April 24 ABC News/Washington Post poll asked, ‘Do you approve or disapprove of the way Bush is handling Social Security?’ 64 percent of respondents disapproved, and 31 percent approved.
“An April 16 CBS News poll asked, ‘Do you have confidence in George W. Bush’s ability to make the right decision about Social Security, or are you uneasy about his approach?’ 70 percent said they were uneasy, and 25 percent were confident.
“A March 18 Newsweek poll asked, ‘We’re interested in your opinion of the way George W. Bush is handling certain aspects of his job. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Bush is handling Social Security?’ 59 percent disapproved, and 33 percent approved.”
So whom can we believe? We can believe Fox polltakers. Why? Because they phrase the questions to receivers in such a way that the questions are not slanted anti-Bush.
Fox News/Opinion Dynamics is the tally taker that levels honesty. “The Fox poll is also the only poll that focuses solely on personal retirement accounts, and not on the president or his ‘handling’ of social security,” Mr. Cain states.
Note how Fox asks the question: “Do you favor or oppose giving individuals the choice to invest a portion of their Social Security contributions in stocks or mutual funds?”
And what thereby was the public response to that question? Sixty percent said they favored “giving people this option, and 28 percent opposed.”
Here’s another Fox question dated April 26: “Thinking about social security contributions, do you think people under age 55 should have the right to choose between keeping all of their contributions in the current system and investing a portion of their contributions?”
And what thereby was the public response to that question? Seventy-nine percent answered in the affirmative while 13 percent answered in the negative.
Prior when I wrote an article accenting this positive approach to Mr. Bush’s attempts to formulate a workable social security plan, I got all sorts of emails saying in short that I was lying. I was prejudiced for the President and therefore had no idea what I was talking about.
These emailers were obviously glued into the biased questions of the liberal anti-Bush pollsters. I was providing information via Fox, hence the variance in perspective.
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