by frog
A reader has emailed wishing me a happy birthday and sending me this link.
‘Fair and balanced‘ Fox News asked in an online poll what people thought the US Tea Party Movement is about. Here are the results:
Thanks for that. It has really helped to make my birthday a happy one.
Published in Society & Culture by frog on Wed, March 10th, 2010
Tags: conspiracy theories, Fox News, racism, Tea Party
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
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Well, that backfired on Faux News, didn’t it. That’s the risk of unscientific on-line polls.
Just like the one David Farrar ran late last year that rated Nick Smith and Anne Tolley extremely poorly as Ministers. Polls on Ministerial performance were a regular feature at Kiwiblog for a while, but I suspect, given Tolley’s recent performances, she has had a word in Farrar’s ear and persuaded him to abandon them.
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So….some saddo keeps clicking the button to skew a poll and Frog thinks it means something? How pathetic.
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Hey, James – much more likely it was done with technology. Would take forever for some sad fuck to click a button almost 400,000 times, and this happened in less than a day.
But it does highlight how dumb anyone it is for people to rely on internet polls.
And it is good for a laugh to see Faux News getting a serve back in response to their (read “propaganda”, but I know you won’t James) poor journalism standards.
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So….some saddo keeps clicking the button to skew a poll and Frog thinks it means something? How pathetic.
that reminds me of the Gareth Morgan versus Ian Wishart climate change text poll. Ian Wishart is telling people it means something.
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I didn’t suggest it meant anything, jh – just that I was amused by it, given that it was run by Fox News who thrive on racism and right wing conspiracy theories.
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Frog says:
I didn’t suggest it meant anything, jh –
but I imagine James would think the morgan Wishart poll on TV3 “meant something’
[frog: Sorry, jh - my response should have been addressed to James.]
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Toad said:
> Hey, James – much more likely it was done with technology. Would take forever for
> some sad fuck to click a button almost 400,000 times, and this happened in less
> than a day.
I saw this poll on reddit (with many upvotes), and I suspect it also got attention on many other Internet communities – so the main factor is probably that lots of people who don’t normally watch Fox found out about the poll, and went to the site specifically to vote for ‘a fruitless mix of racism and conspiracy theories’.
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Unfortunately it is a mix of racism & conspiracy theories, but not fruitless ! Reason – it seems the mix is a heady one for the Wing-Nuts of America who by end of November may well rule Congress – sad !
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Scary, bigblukiwi! And definitely not fruitless – there are heaps of fruit loops involved.
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