CNN’s John King Blames Obama Poll Numbers On NSA ‘Tapping’ Phone Calls And ‘Reading Emails

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A new CNN/ORC poll shows a steep decline in President Obama‘s job approval rating, which is down eight points since CNN’s last poll, while his disapproval rating climbed by nine points. On CNN’s spanking new New Day Monday morning, Washington correspondent John King tried to explain the precipitous drop by citing the recent revelations about National Security Agency programs, but in falsely labeling those programs, may have inadvertently revealed the true reason for the President’s freefall.

In the week following Scandalabra™ Weekend, when news of the IRS/Associated Press/Benghazi talking points stories exploded out of every orifice in the mainstream media news cycle, CNN’s May poll showed that President Obama’s approval rating had actually ticked up two points. Given the generally positive economic news of late, it seems obvious that the current drop, from 53% approval/45% disapproval to 45% approval/54% disapproval, is likely related to the news of NSA data collection programs. That’s the real trick, though: figuring out how much of it has to do with the programs themselves, and how much has to do with the way they have been reported. On New Day Monday morning, John King demonstrated the latter by misreporting the former.

Explaining the results of the new CNN/ORC poll, which showed a steep 17 point decline among 18-34 year-olds, King said “Remember how he won two elections, independents and young voters. Look at the numbers, a 17-point drop in his approval rating in just one month,” and added that “they don’t like people reading their e-mails, tapping their phone calls.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-john-king-blames-obama-poll-numbers-on-nsa-tapping-phone-calls-and-r

[OilemFirchen]

1. John King reads DU!

Woohoo!

[Scuba]

2. Did he mention Obama's mandatory vaginal probes for all women travelling without a male relative?

[still_one]

3. Which Boston bomber was it again John King?

[Honeycombe8]

4. Did he also predict the sun will rise in the east tomorrow? I mean...duh! nt

[Scurrilous]

5. John King is a fucking idiot. n/t

[Kolesar]

6. "Independents" are former 'pukes who won't identify as republicans

And the polls often over sample the "independents"

There’s also a secret embedded in the CNN poll that they probably won’t tell you, nor will anyone else. The other big drop that CNN is pimping is among independents, who now approve of the President at 37%, versus 61% disapproval. That’s a real attention-grabber, but if you look a little deeper, you’ll see that this is more a function of the “independent” label’s abuse, and almost all of the angst at the President is confined to the political right. Among self-described liberals, the President’s approval rating is a not-surprising 75%, and among conservatives, it’s an equally predictable 20%. But among self-described “moderates,” the President’s approval rating is 53%, versus 45% disapproval.

[dennis4868]

7. King is an idiot!

Nobody is tapping the phones or reading emails unless their is a warrant from a court to do it. The NSA program in the news now have nothing to do with that.