Corporate Media is punishing Kerry for taking gloves off: FAKE POLLS

[malatesta1137]

As soon as Kerry launched his more aggressive attacks on Bush's incompetence, dishonesty, and manipulative abuse of power, his poll numbers started to leap, wiping out Bush's bounce in non-corporate media polls, and even paring it down in tweaked media polls. So now they are trying to silence Kerry by convincing him that his "aggressive tactics may not be working," using as "evidence" a new round of tweaked corporate media polls. DON'T LISTEN TO 'EM JFK! The Repugs and their media pals pulled the same crap on Gore. They also pulled the same crap on the Democrats in fall 2002, convincing them that the public wanted them to take a more pro-war stance - the OPPOSITE, of course, was true and when the Dems caved in to the pressure they lost big time at the polls in a punishment vote. It's a con!

Conflicting Polls Reflect Just One Thing: Media Manipulation
Media pollsters are feigning amazement over the current conflicting spread of poll results. But there is no REAL conflict here. The divergence did not come until the GOP convention. Obviously something happened then. The clue as to what that was lies in WHICH polls show Bush with a huge lead: ALL are mainstream media polls: USA Today, CNN, NY Times, Washington Post, ABC, etc. Polls less connected to the Bushie media show a pattern that is consistent with the entire campaign (Harris, Rasmussen, Zogby, et al.). This is not coincidence. We know for a fact that several of the media polls began manipulating their "weighting" system in a dishonest manner (non-media pollster John Zogby spotted Newsweek's scheme right away). The media publicize their own manipulated polls, not the traditional pollsters' results. Thus, they are using their skewed polls as "marketing devices" - selling Bush like their latest name brand coming out ahead in a rigged "national taste test."

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[JohnnyCougar]

1. call them on it...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x837070

[redstateblues]

2. Insightful Analysis

I was thinking about that "brand name" concept earlier today. They are trying to make Bush a brand name because they benefit in so many ways by keeping Bush in office. Just think how great the war was for their ratings- all the BS war specials- patriotic "advertising". GE, parent company of NBC and MSNBC, makes big money from defense contracts. War is good business for the media- of course not when it becomes a quagmire- then it is time to start another one perhaps in Iran- so we can whip up the invasion fever again.

[sendero]

3. I think, or at least hope...

... that Kerry is doing polling of his own. I've heard that both parties do their own polling but of course the results are not for public consumption.

When you look at how absurd the metrics of a Gallup poll are, you'd have to be a masochist to put any stock in their numbers. I have a feeling Kerry's campaign knows the real score...

[LittleClarkie]

4. According to a Veteran for Kerry

who's talked with him, he says they are worthless.

I think he knows better.

And besides, he didn't go on the attack because he was told to. He didn't even stay off the subject of Iraq like Clinton said to.

He's doing what he always does, which is get fired up toward the end of the campaign. They call him Mr. October for a reason. He is getting angry, esp after the RNC was so heinous in their attacks. When he's angry he speaks with fire. I don't get the sense that he would stop now even if he was told to.

Fear not, little buckaroos. We shall prevail.

[malatesta1137]

6. I loved this Kerry pic!!

thanks!!

[John_H]

5. Exacxtly right. Reporters being spun this by RNC press operation and

reporting it as their own observations---MSNBC, CNN, and CNBC at least once a piece today.