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Mad_Machine76

(24,957 posts)
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 11:21 PM Apr 2023

Marianne Williamson Makes Gains Against Joe Biden, New Poll Suggests (Newsweek Clickbait)

Last edited Tue Apr 4, 2023, 09:46 AM - Edit history (1)

Total clickbait headline from Newsweek


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/marianne-williamson-making-gains-against-joe-biden-new-poll-suggests/ar-AA19mkvX?ocid=sapphireappshare

Spoiler: She’s polling at 10%, folks, and Biden at 73%.

I had a friend on FB misinterpret the poll to claim that she is only 10 points behind Biden.

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Marianne Williamson Makes Gains Against Joe Biden, New Poll Suggests (Newsweek Clickbait) (Original Post) Mad_Machine76 Apr 2023 OP
ffs..... bahboo Apr 2023 #1
Right.... OAITW r.2.0 Apr 2023 #2
She would fit the bill Mad_Machine76 Apr 2023 #4
LOL! Ocelot II Apr 2023 #3
Marianne Williamson, dead or alive? hay rick Apr 2023 #5
From the Great Beyond Hekate Apr 2023 #20
Hint, it's Newsweek JohnSJ Apr 2023 #6
Nailed it!! Has turned into another RW mouth piece in the last few years..sad PortTack Apr 2023 #7
That's sad Mad_Machine76 Apr 2023 #9
Totally agree!! PortTack Apr 2023 #19
Post removed Post removed Apr 2023 #8
So why is it being posted here? edisdead Apr 2023 #10
To laugh at (mostly) Mad_Machine76 Apr 2023 #11
I mean it states in the OP that its clickbait edisdead Apr 2023 #12
Don't we all post about crazy stuff going on out there? Mad_Machine76 Apr 2023 #13
I like that we bear witness to this blatant M$M corruption on DU, brother/sister (nt) Hugh_Lebowski Apr 2023 #17
This place used to have higher standards edisdead Apr 2023 #21
This stuff's out there and people are citing it as gospel Mad_Machine76 Apr 2023 #28
Should have been put in the reply title. kacekwl Apr 2023 #18
Newsweek is a RW trash rag. Nt Fiendish Thingy Apr 2023 #14
Fuck the RF Gaslit Media.. they're Cha Apr 2023 #15
Post removed Post removed Apr 2023 #16
She only got about 1% in polls in the last election. LiberalFighter Apr 2023 #22
Jeezus H Crust we can do it Apr 2023 #23
About Newsweek and how it has turned into a right-wing rag blogslug Apr 2023 #24
Comparing one poll to a completely different poll by another outlet & deducing a trend... Beautiful Disaster Apr 2023 #25
Good point Mad_Machine76 Apr 2023 #29
Unfortunately, she is a Democratic nominee Tarc Apr 2023 #26
She's a candidate, not a nominee. Beautiful Disaster Apr 2023 #30
Whatever Tarc Apr 2023 #31
Oh, sounds like something from her book "A Year of Miracles." betsuni Apr 2023 #27

OAITW r.2.0

(32,133 posts)
2. Right....
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 11:25 PM
Apr 2023

"No Labels" is looking for a tool that will spoil the election for the Republicans....maybe they will draft her1

Mad_Machine76

(24,957 posts)
9. That's sad
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 11:44 PM
Apr 2023

I used to enjoy them. It seems like everything in terms of media that we used to enjoy has become degraded RW garbage. And yet Republicans still claim that the media is a festering nest of commie pinko liberalism

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Mad_Machine76

(24,957 posts)
11. To laugh at (mostly)
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 11:49 PM
Apr 2023

But also to be prepared if somebody tries to claim that she is within striking distance of unseating Biden, which is the only reason I went looking for more info about this.

edisdead

(3,396 posts)
21. This place used to have higher standards
Tue Apr 4, 2023, 08:10 AM
Apr 2023

It used to be frowned upon when posting from junk sources and info known to be garbage. Of course that was before social media became default media and the news outlets had to keep up with the nonstop bullshit reporting.

Mad_Machine76

(24,957 posts)
28. This stuff's out there and people are citing it as gospel
Tue Apr 4, 2023, 09:44 AM
Apr 2023

Best to be aware of it IMHO so that we can push back against it. And while Newsweek has become junk, I would wager that a lot of people still read it not knowing that.

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LiberalFighter

(53,544 posts)
22. She only got about 1% in polls in the last election.
Tue Apr 4, 2023, 08:15 AM
Apr 2023

Doubt she will exceed that when 2024 comes around.

blogslug

(39,167 posts)
24. About Newsweek and how it has turned into a right-wing rag
Tue Apr 4, 2023, 08:41 AM
Apr 2023
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/11/04/newsweek-embraces-anti-democracy-hard-right

Newsweek positioned political activist Josh Hammer to run their opinion pages during the runup to the 2020 presidential election, and since that time, the publication has taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders.

Although opinion pages in ostensibly nonpartisan, mainstream publications promote political opinions, sometimes controversial ones, Newsweek stands alone among such brands in its willingness to elevate such figures as Jack Posobiec, known for promoting the Pizzagate disinformation campaign, and Dinesh D’Souza, whose film 2000 Mules researchers roundly debunked for spreading conspiracies about the 2020 election. Under Hammer’s leadership, Newsweek has also aired bigoted views, like appearing to call for the state to deny adults access to trans-affirming medical care and supporting a ban on all legal immigration into the U.S. They have also spread baseless conspiracies about COVID-19, with one of Hammer’s collaborators describing vaccines designed to fight the virus as a “bioweapon.”

Newsweek has also failed to disclose potential conflicts of interest emerging in the content published through Hammer’s opinion section and his Newsweek-branded podcast, “The Josh Hammer Show.” Hammer donated to the campaign of Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters and at least four times published the work of a man who ran one of Masters’ fundraisers. On his podcast, Hammer told Newsweek’s audience to “go ahead and vote for Blake Masters.” Hammer also promoted hard-right Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán in a Newsweek dispatch authored from Hungary, without disclosing that he arrived there in collaboration with a group directly affiliated with the Hungarian government. Hammer also claims membership in a number of reactionary activist groups, and regularly publishes people who are also affiliated with them. He will appear on behalf of the New York Young Republican Club alongside Posobiec and QAnon influencer-turned-congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene in December...


 

Beautiful Disaster

(667 posts)
25. Comparing one poll to a completely different poll by another outlet & deducing a trend...
Tue Apr 4, 2023, 09:20 AM
Apr 2023

...is stupid as fuck.

The poll they're comparing is not even the same poll that was run earlier in the month that had her at single digits. They're two completely different polls and shouldn't be compared.

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