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39. Sunday Morning Hack Techniques and Routines

1. Repeat Republican talking points as truth ad nauseum (i.e. Obamacare, Benghazi, etc.).
2. Take a push poll regarding Republican talking point.
3. Discuss President's bad poll numbers based on news media's poor reporting and Republican lies.

1. Take a poll asking a broad and vague question like "Is the country headed in the right direction?". Not a specific question about a certain policy mind you, just any question guaranteed to generate a negative response.
2. Ask Democratic guest why they going against the grain when America is rejecting liberalism and Democratic/Presidential policies as if that's what poll respondents were saying when in fact they may having been indicating policies are not liberal enough. (This was done over and over again with Obamacare. Ask people if they are happy with Obamacare then count people who want a public option or single payer with the knuckle dragging mouth breathers who want no reform at at all.)

1. Hold Democrats responsible for Republican obstructionism. (If Republican version of compromise is Democrat complete surrender then Democrats should surrender completely or be accused of not comprising).

1. Have no standard what so ever regarding accuracy of pundit policy positions. You can have a track record of outstandingly bad policy predictions such as the Iraq War and never ever be called on it.

1. False equivalency. No matter how inappropriate compare minor bureaucratic mishaps to major f*ck ups that cost thousands of lives by continually trying to inject phrases like "mission accomplished" and "Katrina moment" into events that have nothing more in common than they happened on planet Earth. (Why not just refer to Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space" as his "Citizen Kane" moment?)