Obama and Congress: Do Polls Show Obama Is Destroying Democrats in Congress (Guest Villains: Anti-American, Despicable AP and Yahoo)

"WASHINGTON – Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama, a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help stave off expected losses in elections this fall."


The above is from the propaganda merchants at the "Anti-American, Despicable Associated Press" (complete official name). The headline on both the story and on the equally despicable Yahoo News was: "Obama More Popular Than Obama". Yes, except for the AP propaganda, that means the headline could (should?) have been: "Congress More Unpopular Than Obama." Let me list just a few of the ways this story was pure propaganda, and why you should BOYCOTT Yahoo for using nothing but AP stories--with an occasional OTHER left wing source thrown in):


1. The premise of the above quoted propaganda paragraph is transparently ridiculous. Obama is not again on the ballot until 2012. Even assuming that the despicable AP were right about Obama's "popularity", the ONLY people up for election in 2010 are those in Congress (or in the states). Just HOW, AP, can you "spin" it as "good news" that Obama is DESTROYING the Democrats in Congress--meaning their election chances--in the pursuit of his own agenda?


2. The actual NUMBERS--the "news", except it is not real "news", but manufactured "news"--are not even mentioned in the above "lead" paragraph. Well, no surprise. The despicable "journalists" of the AP are not journalists at all, but propagandists. The number for Congress is an abysmal 22%, and DEMOCRATS CONTROL CONGRESS. The "more than half" for Obama IS A LIE. How can I say that? Well, if you take into account the margin of error, it could be LESS THAN HALF. In other words, the despicable AP is LYING about the accuracy of the poll. The number for Obama is really right at half. If you take into account the EXPECTED "margin of error", his real "approval" could well be UNDER 50%. Then consider that other reputable polls show that Obama's approval rating--epecially his JOB approval rating--is BELOW 50% by a LOT. Rasmussen--a perfectly respectable pollster--has Obama's approval rating at 43%. Is it a LIE to quote one poll--in a misleading way--without quoting other polls saying a different thing? Of course it is. If you are a REAL "news" organization, your duty is to consider ALL sources of information, and not just the poll you like (or paid for).


3. Obama POLICIES are not "popular". Thus the question a REAL "news" organization would ask is WHY Democrats in Congress are willing to let Obama act in such a way as to DOOM them, while propping up (to a degree) Obama's own popularity.


4. Polls are pretty much meaningless, except for showing--to a degree--a trend. That is, if almost ALL polls are showing movement in one direction--which is what has happened with the "popularity" of both Congress and the President over the past 6 months--you can pretty much assume that SOMETHING is happening. When you combine that with recent election results, you KNOW that something is happening--such as with the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts. This would be true even if polls were HONEST. They are not these days--at least not all of them. As stated, you only have to look at the way the AP has "spun" this poll. Is the pol ll of "likely voters"? Does the poll measure how STRONGLY voters on one side feel, as compared to the other? These things are all generally ignored in the way polls are now REPORTED. That is because polls are now just another instrument of PROPAGANDA--especially in the hands of a propaganda outfit like the AP, helped by the despicable Yahoo News.


I could go on, but you get the picture.


I am serious about Yahoo News. You should BOYCOTT Yahoo. I only use it the way I used to use AOL: as a way to quickly see the leftist "talking points" for the day. Yahoo "News" consistently uses ONLY left wing, mainstream media sources--generally the despicable AP. No, you do not HAVE to do it that way. Drudge (drudgereport.com), for example, uses MULTIPLE sources--left and right. Yes, Drudge is biased in its HEADLINES, but--like Yahoo, except Drudge rarely will originate a story---is mainly a conduit for others. And those "others" include BOTH left and right wing sources, however biased Drudge may be in the headlines.