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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: Shes 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.
bahboo
(16,953 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(32,133 posts)"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)Ocelot II
(130,526 posts)hay rick
(9,605 posts)Just asking the question.
Hekate
(100,133 posts)JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)PortTack
(35,820 posts)Mad_Machine76
(24,957 posts)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
PortTack
(35,820 posts)Response to Mad_Machine76 (Original post)
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edisdead
(3,396 posts)Mad_Machine76
(24,957 posts)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)But I guess whatever.
Mad_Machine76
(24,957 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)edisdead
(3,396 posts)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)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.
kacekwl
(9,144 posts)That way it's not clickbait.
Fiendish Thingy
(23,227 posts)Cha
(319,067 posts)as bad as MW.
Good news.. PJB at 73%!
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LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)Doubt she will exceed that when 2024 comes around.
we can do it
(13,024 posts)blogslug
(39,167 posts)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 DSouza, whose film 2000 Mules researchers roundly debunked for spreading conspiracies about the 2020 election. Under Hammers 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 Hammers 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 Hammers 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 Newsweeks 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)...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.
Mad_Machine76
(24,957 posts)I didn't think about that.
Tarc
(10,601 posts)So we can't say what we really want to,
Beautiful Disaster
(667 posts)Tarc
(10,601 posts)Point is, we unfortunately have to play by the rules, til she drops out.