People Remember Gallup Was the Organization That POLLED IRAQ

[Beetwasher]

Gallup was hired by the US gov't to poll Iraqi's after we invaded. They came up with a poll in which a sizeable majority said they welcomed the US and looked favorably upon us. This was in October of last year I believe.

Here's something I posted around that time to put things in perspective.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=534560

Gallup is nothing more than a propoganda arm of the WH.

[cthrumatrix]

1. and the media allows it...reports it and promotes it....why?

becuase this is "corporatism" at work against the people.


This war was for the feeding of the Military Industrial complex, corporate kickbacks and a sham.

$8B missing from a recent audit...and what happens ....NOTHING!

[Beetwasher]

2. Yup

And they bought themselves the most well known of polling organizations and corrupted it thoroughly so that it's essentially used for Rove's bidding.

There's no doubt in mind that Rove knew he needed a big poll to counteract the slew of new polls showing the race tied and to try to make Dems nervous that the attention to Bush's Guard record was backfiring. Orders went to Gallup and voila! A ridiculous poll comes out that bucks every single other poll as well as bucks conventional wisdom.

The guard story is NOT backfiring on the Dems and Bush is NOT pulling away w/ this. This is pure, unadulterated propoganda at it's most vile.

[Beetwasher]

3. Kick

n/t

[yellowcanine]

4. Was that a telephone poll they did in Eyerack?

Because if I were going to do a poll in Eyerack I would be sure and do a telephone poll as we know everyone in Eyerack has working telephones and are always home to answer them and not out looking for water or food or anything like that.