Say my name, say my name - part 2
Sometimes I suspect the lamestream media outlets are locked in an intramural contest to see which of them can distort the news the most. The rest of the time I’m convinced of it. Now we have MSNBC’s latest effort to one up their “competition” by twisting the result of a Facebook online poll. Here is a screenshot of the results as of today, January 6th:
What’s wrong with this picture?
It may be true that Huckabee overtook McCain, but Facebook users actually chose Ron Paul with nearly twice as many votes as Huckabee, who is in second place. Not content to merely forget to mention who really leads the poll though; MSNBC then proceeds to juggle the order of the candidates to list Ron Paul last even though he’s in first place. Why don’t they just omit his result altogether? Are they afraid that someone might notice that the votes then only total 57%? Sheesh!
This silliness lacks the subtlety of AOL’s dishonest poll results. It is, however, exactly in keeping with previous MSNBC reporting I’ve mentioned on this blog. They will simply report the results of Presidential polling as though Ron Paul doesn’t exist. Are Americans really stupid enough not to notice, or is MSNBC so stupid as to think they are?
I guess we should’t discount the possibility that it’s all just a clever ruse to draw more viewers to their website. In the absence of linked articles, such as this one pointing out how utterly biased they are, MSNBC’s website would get a lot fewer hits.
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