Bookworm on Jun 24 2008 | Filed under: Media matters
This sounds dreadful — until you read this, and discover that it’s not dreadful, it’s profoundly dishonest. And it’s the dishonesty that’s the true horror.
Have past elections been characterized by such terrible dishonesty? I wonder if these lies, damn lies and statistics were always out there tainting the flow of information, and we simply didn’t [...]
Bookworm on Jun 20 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain, Presidential elections
As they do every election year about this time, the polls strongly favor the Democrats, which is very disheartening. Right around now I find it especially worrisome, because I think that Obama, emboldened by media adulation, is being more and more forthright about his political agenda, and it’s one that ordinarily would should have the [...]
Bookworm on Mar 06 2008 | Filed under: Media matters
The moment I saw the boastful headline yesterday announcing that, if the election were held today, either Obama or Hillary would beat McCain by a mile, I suspected that something was wrong. The numbers just didn’t sound right. And of course, they’re not:
However, a closer look at the poll’s internals reveals that [...]
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