Is America's 54% Support of Legalized Marijuana a Lie?

gabechihua said:

Oh and red, one thing you do need to realize about those ratings is that Fox attracts a ton of media watchdog types who agree with nothing the channel spews. I used to tune in just to laugh at the ridiculousness of the bias. There are quite a few who tune in nightly for the same reason. Those viewers who are not fans of the channel count in the ratings, so the ratings can be a bit misleading.

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Absurd! Hatewatching FoxNews?

gabechihua said:

Did I say I watch any of that crap? I find politics incredibly boring, I stopped paying attention to the dog and pony show about seven years ago. However I do find it incredibly annoying when Fox constantly beats you over the head with their lame ass "fair and balanced" slogan. All those channels are seriously boring to watch, but I do find Fox's style to be quite a bit more nauseating than the rest. I think Michael Stipe said it best when he said, "I'm not a fan of their puff adder style of journalism".

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What do you mean boring? Just last week on The Five, that Guilfoyle woman was showing so much leg I swear if her skirt rose another 1/2" I could have seen cleft. I was riveted.

Wilksey said:

Polls are bullshit designed to sway the opinions of idiots that don't realize that polls are bullshit.



NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, they're ALL hacks paid to shill propaganda. EVERY LAST ONE.

Too many people associate "freedom of the press" with integrity, when all it means is "free to publish bullshit".

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Thank God for Amy Goodman.

gabechihua said:

Looks like Bill O' had a survey blow up in his face when he posed the question on his website, 89% of respondents favored legalization. If Bill O'Reilly's website that is mostly frequented by right wing fanatics gets survey results like this you know the poll numbers are being fixed. The news site that reported this story however states that online polls are notoriously unreliable, and suggests that polls by Gallup and Pew are much more reliable. Polls by Gallup and Pew are always suspect in my book, it's extremely easy for them to fake their numbers. The fact that Gallup and Pew are mass medias' two big standbys for poll numbers make them even more suspect. Of course websites with live polls can easily fake their numbers too, but when poll numbers like these keep coming in from websites like billoreilly.com and us news and world report who have absolutely nothing to gain by making legalization look more popular and are actually against legalization it starts to make it obvious that Gallup and Pew are the ones who are notoriously unreliable.

http://theweek.com/article/index/265651/speedreads-bill-oreilly-took-a-poll-on-legalizing-weed-youll-never-guess-what-happened-next

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I myself am a "right winger" and I am all for legalization, for medical use at least. I am not at all surprised at the O'Reilley poll results since so many conservatives tend to be more libertarian and therefore have a more live and let live attitude.
Polls are manipulated in the way that the questions are asked. Did you notice whether they included the question with the poll results? I would say probably not because they wouldn't want the more intelligent of us to see their methods of manipulation.

All television news is filtered bullshit. The agenda of each is that of the corporation that owns the network. I don't watch or believe anything (including ebola, shootings, ISIS, al quaida, etc etc) on television news networks.

Collisto's Orbit said:

All television news is filtered bullshit. The agenda of each is that of the corporation that owns the network. I don't watch or believe anything (including ebola, shootings, ISIS, al quaida, etc etc) on television news networks.

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hahaha "I DON'T BELIEVE IN EBOLA"

I believe the 97% polls. I worked for a polling place for a month and it was the biggest joke. It was clintons political polling group and the question always pointed to the answer. The 54% question is probably when they ask if pot should be completely unregulated or at worse recreationaly legal. Every non filtered poll Ive seen is 90%+ and i just don't believe people are running around stacking non political polls while leaving the political groups at 54%, there is more reason for votes to be messed with...

What I want to know is what they've done in florida to get support from 89% to 43% in 30 days for amendment 2. At the beginning of october it seemed like a landslide and now the news places are all but declaring it dead.


Just fyi-

I'm a right leaning libertarian Christian that hates fox, cnn, msnbc, pretty much all of them and thinks the western "church" has been hijacked and turned into a political movement. Scripturaly I can make the argument that anyone that speaks against any herb for mans use is a liar...yes it's in there, 1timothy 4, but they translated the word for herbs/sustenance to meats in the king james and really changed the whole thing in later versions like NIV.

TakeTheTicket said:

hahaha "I DON'T BELIEVE IN EBOLA"

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Look at how quickly the "epidemic" disappeared from the news. I'm sure ebola exists, and I'm sure it's a nasty death for those that contract and succumb to it, but the television news sensationalizes every issue, and the ebola scare is merely one example. No one is really ever accurately educated by TV news. Accurate education is drawn from other sources.