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Posted by moonbatmax in General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010)
Fri Nov 06th 2009, 06:03 AM
...if we don't turn it around, and fast.

I got this email from a friend last night. He's still a friend, despite his politics, but I have no choice but to fight him on this one:
Please take 10 seconds to vote and turn this around


Fox News is losing in an NPR Poll, but with the power of the Internet we can turn that around in a few hours.

If you haven't heard this, the White House is accusing Fox News of not being a legitimate source of news, calling them biased, etc. They have tried to block Fox reporters from news conferences, etc., NPR has put a survey online for us to voice our opinion.

Currently it is 73% in favor of the White House, because mainly liberals log on to the NPR website.

If Fox loses this poll you can bet Obama will mention it as support for his attack on Fox.

Let's show them how we feel about honest conservative news reporting.

To vote log onto:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/1...

Then ... forward this to all your conservative friends!

Note especially: "73% in favor of the White House." When I went to check this out, it had already swung to 86% in favor of Fox.

Talk about a swing vote!

As I read the poll, only a little over two hundred thousand voters had favored the White House. If that represented 73% of the total when the email went out, that would have been a total response of just over three hundred thousand. By the time I'd got there, it had risen to over 1.7 MILLION votes, over 1.5 million of them for Fox! That's up from LESS than a hundred thousand, if I got the math right.

Looks like someone else has figured out "grass roots" mobilization.

Okay, this probably isn't that big a thing. The poll came out over a week ago (October 23), and probably isn't going to make any news cycles now. Hell, I hadn't even heard of this thing before my friend mistook me for a conservative. Still... this is NPR. Do we really want them to think their listeners have swung so hard to the right? Sure, they must be smarter than that, but do we even want to allow the possibility?

Surely, we must have enough here alone to turn the tables back?

And don't forget to tell all your liberal friends!
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