Unbelievable CNN Poll: "Is it time to end protests against the Iraq War?"

[RevolutionStartsNow]

The exact poll question is: "Two years on, is it time to end protests against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq?"

WTF??? I shouldn't be surprised, really, but I am just beaten down by the arrogance and stupidity in this country, led by our So-Called Liberal Media. Unbelievable.

[ProgressiveConn]

1. Liberal media? Pfft. Corporate TV.

[Cha]

2. cnn's polls are only equal in

stupidity by msnbc's polls.

Where is it? I'll vote in their assinine poll.

[Wilms]

3. There's the link. Nooooooooooo

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/03/19/europe.iraq.protests.ap

[Cha]

7. Yea! "No" is

winning by 58% to 42%!

Guess who the 42% are?..People who don't mind going over and killing innocents but don't want to let a vegetable die!

[KansDem]

85. Just about how the 2004 election went...

58% for Kerry, naturally!

[pnutchuck]

9. Just voted NO. 58%no 42% yes eom

[GreenPoet64]

30. Voted "No" to an idiotic question. n/t

[Lorien]

35. In a "democracy", how do they intend to end protests

against an illegal and immoral war?

Better poll:"Is it time to turn off CNN"?

[shadowknows69]

43. how about no

not until it's over you morons that's the whole point. I hate CNN.

[d_b]

44. WTF kind of question is that?

Mother of god.

[bigtree]

48. *

[B Calm]

89. I voted NO / 59 % NO 41% YES

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/03/19/europe.i...

[Kitka]

95. OMG how frightening.

nt

[Elidor]

4. That is quite possibly the stupidest poll question I've ever heard!

It implies a complete ignorance of the concerns of fully half the people of the US. :wow: Just fucking unbelievable.

[hollywood926]

8. I couldn't agree more

CNN has sunk to a new low. I didn't think that was possible

[BlueEyedSon]

5. 58% no

[rocktivity]

6. Accompanying the poll (58% No)

is a story titled Day of anti-war protests in Europe . We had some in the USA, too, you know!

:headbang:
rocknation

[toymachines]

14. thats the worst poll/article i remember seeing.

the bias is astounding.

[hollywood926]

10. In other words, is it time to shut up and fall in line with the 4th reich?

fuckers

[spanone]

11. What do they mean by 'ending' protests. Outlawing?

What's really frightening is that only 58% to 42% say no.

[Karenina]

12. Bingo,

:cry:

[NYC]

17. A lot of the protesters haven't gotten home in time

to vote yet.

[Botany]

13. Good see that Mr. Gannon is now working for CNN.

CNN

Certainly Not News.

[NYC]

15. That is unbelievable.

They didn't ask about: "Two years on, is it time to end the war?"

Yes 42%, 26,481 votes
No 58%, 36,008 votes

[MsConduct]

16. Like stopping the protests will stop the dying?

Get F-ing Real!!! Still 58 to 42.

[Itsthetruth]

19. Still 58% No!

Yes 42% 26843 votes
No 58% 36548 votes
Total: 63391 votes

[daleo]

18. How would they propose to "end the protests"?

Pass a law against them? Deport all the protesters? Kill them? Or, did CNN just mean to ask "should the the media totally ignore all future protests"?

[Itsthetruth]

20. Kick

kick so DU'ers can vote.

[Desertrose]

21. they pretty much ignore them now n/t

[beanball]

24. End the protest

create a protest free zone,somewhere north of Nome,Alaska.

[bpilgrim]

40. the DoD has lots of new gadgets to try to do that...

http://images.globalfreepress.com

peace

[KarenS]

22. I sent them an email earlier about this stupid poll !!!!

I could not believe that they asked this question!!!

I am losing faith that we are going to be able to stop anything or change anything with regards to BushCo and his State Sponsored Media,,,,,



:argh:

[Itsthetruth]

23. latest

Yes 42% 28096 votes
No 58% 38230 votes
Total: 66326 votes

[Itsthetruth]

25. The latest

Yes 42% 28984 votes
No 58% 39594 votes
Total: 68578 votes

Well, the people want us to keep on protesting the war so we should heed their wishes!

[Nostradammit]

60. Really? I haven't lost faith in the American People

I have every confidence that the good people of the United States will eventually arise to the occasion and get the bastards that started this illegal war swinging in the trees.

We simply must. And the rest of the Universe is going to help.

Be of good cheer.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

26. The results of the vote are secondary...

It's the outrageous question that really got to me. How could they even ask that? I've seen a lot of stupid CNN poll questions, but this one just might be the worst yet.

I recommend not voting, and instead expressing your opinion about the question to the unpatriotic wankers who wrote the question.

[SoCalDem]

27. Dear CNN, What have you heard? Is "someone" planning to "end" them?

The pinnacle of stupid questions has been achieved with this one. Perhaps if CNN had spent a teensy bit of time actually COVERING the protests and their reasons, there would be no need for inane "questions" such as this.

It IS a bit odd when a woman who had been comatose for FIFTEEN years, yet another pervert snatching yet another child, and millionaires shooting themself full of steroids to make them better cheaters, are "Top 'o the News", yet hundreds of thousands (or as you in the "news biddness" would say.. a "few hundred") take to the streets in opposition to war, it's no "biggie"..

You DESERVE every negative rating point you "earn".. Your "former viewers" have moved on...to BBC and other foreign news venues that still remember what's newsworthy..

Once, CNN was the choice of people looking for serious news, now it's a joke. You have almost as many vapid, plastic bimbos and Ken-dolls as Fox. I never thought I would see the day when CNN would be buying lipgloss and hair gel by the 50 gallon drum, but I have been proven wrong. You can always use it to lube the slide...makes the ride to the bottom a little easier on the "chiseled, rock-hard" bums...

[me b zola]

28. Maybe what they were communicating to us is

That they aren't going to cover any of our protests so we might as well give up.

:grr:

[Shadowen]

29. Most disturbing about the question...

It could be interpreted as not, "Okay, people, time to pack it up and go home; no one cares anymore," but, "You have twenty minutes to dissemble peacefully and end this protest or we will end it for you."

[Pithy Cherub]

31. cnn the homogenized stepford news channel

is trying to manufacture consensus. Asking the question about protesting time limits reflects the stupidity of their executive suite and a lack of knowledge about history - incontext.

cnn: the network devoted to stupidity. They can be trusted to be stupid!

[Robbien]

32. At least CNN site acknowledged there were protests. The cable CNN

talking head said there were very few protests.

[ultraist]

33. No, it's not time to end our right to assemble.

It's time to end the war in Iraq!

[oldcoot]

34. It will be time to end the protests when the war is over

The war is not yet over. The U.S. still has troops in Iraq and we are still needlessly losing lives.

[shance]

36. FASCIST NEWS NETWORK. Time to protest CNN*****

Sure, we don't have to protest about the War, we can just protest CNN and their lies and unethical coverage they try to pass off as news.

They need to hear from Americans on this. This is about has nazi and fascist as it gets.

[oasis]

92. Picket CNN.

[BuyingThyme]

37. done

[GreenPoet64]

38. kick n/t

[Bake]

39. So just exactly WHO is going to "end" the protests????

And by what right would they do so?? I've got the First Amendment to the FUCKING CONSTITUTION on my side. What've they got???

Asswipes.

Bake

[bpilgrim]

41. In THEIR Dreams

but it sure doesn't FIT with the M$MW current story line, "freedom is breaking out all over the ME"

it's more like 'freedom' FIRE is breaking out all over the ME.

have i thanked GORE he 'invented' the INTERNETs, yet ;->


http://images.globalfreepress.com

peace

[derby378]

42. Forget it - the poll has been retired

But with the lack of activity I've seen in some quarters of America, it seems like the question may become superfluous...

[uhhuh]

46. The poll is not retired!!!

I just voted on it! The link above works.

It is a very stupid question, though.

[derby378]

54. Thanks - my bad

Just voted in it, too. No 58%, Yes 42%.

[nolabels]

45. Wouldn't it just be better to END CNN instead

:nopity:

[slay]

47. Great Zombie Jesus

Maybe we could protest the poll that protests the protests which are protesting the Iraq war. I think I said that right. :)

[madeline_con]

49. Should WE end...

Does that mean anyone ballsy enough to disagree with policy, go home and shut up, or get out the firehoses ala civil rights protests in the 60's? Ominous.

[TWiley]

57. No, it means ........ Is it time for the bushtapo to militarily

attack the protestors? "Is it time to end the protests"

What else could it mean?

[madeline_con]

90. Firehoses...

it is, then. Probably a few dogs, too. When are we going to set a date to storm the Bastille?! :mad:

[Iterate]

50. New Poll: How sick can CNN get?

I can't believe this is for real, I mean, some moron actually had to compose it, pass it up the chain, select that one among all other options, get approval, program and post it...no, it can't be real. It's also hard to imagine that anyone at CNN cares what the result is.

What if it's just there to outrage everyone and get hits for their site?

[KayLaw]

51. Yes!

It's time to crack down on these damn Americans. There should be limits to freedom, you know. Next, they'll be throwing tea into the Boston Harbor!

[Junkdrawer]

52. Yeah, by 1967 Vietnam Protests should have stopped too...

using the same logic...

[Jose Diablo]

53. I wonder how CNN

would propose to end protests against the war. Are they saying that somehow it is possible to force an end to protests without ending the source of complaints the protestors have.

These guys in power, they are a trip. I sense they somehow think they have to power to do anything they want. In truth, they are like gnats on a elephants butt, no more able to direct they course of what will happen than the gnat can tell the elephant where to go.

[TWiley]

55. CNN has the Integrity of ........The National Enquirer.

I do not expect much from them anymore. Anderson Cooper, and Lou Dobbs are the only shows worth watching. The rest of it is shameless propaganda for the bushtapo.

[LisaL]

56. Do they think the invasion is over or what?

[suegeo]

58. Weeping Christ on the Cross

You'd think CNN/CIA employees would be smarter than a pile of cow manure, but I guess not.

[dzika]

59. kick. n/t

[LiberalinNC]

61. Voted!!!!

Yes 41% 30884 votes

No 59% 44113 votes

[Virginian]

62. 59% - 41%

The percentages have finally shifted one point.
(Or would that be two points?)

[oblivious]

63. Two years on, is the illegal, immoral destruction of a country OK?

And two years on, shouldn't we all just forget the hundreds of thousands of people needlessly killed and maimed?

[confludemocrat]

64. Brain-dead pandering by a morally bankrupt corporate-TV station

I Never watch them anymore. Never will unless they purge the rotten lot of them.

[clem_c_rock]

65. The end of a free press is long gone. Next it's forums and blogs like

This. This has to be fought to the bitter end.

[RaleighNCDUer]

66. Maybe it's all in how you look at it.

After all, the invasion was two years ago. The poll specified protesting the invasion.

Didn't say anything about protesting the ongoing war and occupation.

What is the definition of 'is'?

Maybe that's why they hate Clinton so much -- he's someone who enjoys playing with words as much as they do.

So OK. I hereby stop protesting the invasion. From now on I protest the occupation, and the draft, and the invasion of Syria and Iran, and the congressional override of the judiciary, and the. . .

[melissinha]

67. Listening to Unfiltered

I was listening to Unfiltered on Air America and Rachel's guest Doug asked a very important question.... Does media attention to our dissent make it more valuable???? If thats all we are after then we have already lost... we are being whipped by the MSM in their refusal to cover protests in this country... basically CNN did not report protests here... but reported protests everywhere else.


Long term strategies... thats what they are talking about now... the GOP is relying on our defensive reactionism for their political gain.... we need to work behind the scenes cause out reactionism is being used against us.....

[RaleighNCDUer]

68. Somebody at CNN screwed up --

I think an internal editorial memo was sent to the people that run the polls, and they thought it was a request for the poll as we read it.

MEMO: Two years on, is it time to end coverage of protests against the US led invasion of Iraq?

Obviously the answer was Yes, judging by the coverage the protests got.

[nashville_brook]

74. speaking as a graphic designer and someone who can EASILY imagine

that happening... i know MY response would be to try and get the word out. maybe it's a leak. lets read it as a leak. this is what THEY think? where the hell did they get their journalism degrees? kmart? shit, martha would do a better job. think about the great spread in Living on making The Perfect Protest Sign. best paints to use, best techniques for setting up an assembly line. drying times and stain removal. The Essential Protest Backpack: What to take, what to wear. Ready-Made Magazine might inform the reader on forming a human chail using pallets, somehow.

point is, the bias in Mass Media is that people aren't allowed to do anything en masse unless it's religious in nature. imagine if, instead of a protest, this were a prigimmage. or involved an apparition on a baked good.

this is amazing human drama. people don't EVER do anything like this. we can barely get off our asses to go to Starbucks to get treats. and it's easter -- these are peacemakers. what a story THAT is.

[in_cog_ni_to]

69. Voted. What an assholish network to ask a question like that.

:grr:

Two years on, is it time to end protests against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq?

Yes 41% 30962 votes

No 59% 44428 votes
Total: 75390 votes

[4dsc]

70. Rightie says DEBATE should end too

I have been in discussion with rightie who stated their should be no more debate on IRaq too.. SImply unbelievable what these little hitler youth say these days..

Of course I reminded him that debate is very American!!

[nashville_brook]

73. why would anyone even ask the question about protest w/o asking

about the war itself.

personally, i think the protests got better this time around, and make for interesting and uplifting news. the bias here is so oddly sliced. the bias is against people coming together en masse, peacefully, to SHARE an IDEA. doesn't it seem a more reasonable response would be to report on the phenom? holy cow, what a story.

why would a news org want to stop news? what an absurd question -- the protests are the human response to war. it's easter for crying out loud -- why aren't they covering the angle of "peacemaking," and "pilgrimmage" and sacrifice. we live in a scary place.

[RaleighNCDUer]

77. They prefer covering 'Crusade'. n/t

[nashville_brook]

71. sent to my "political discussion" list -- check this out

here's what i sent:

I kid you not, a CNN poll asks the question:
"Two years on, is it time to end protests against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq?"
___________________________________
I am simply perplexed. Go ahead and vote. I did. I'm working on a letter to the editor, though. Maybe (just maaaaaybe), it isn't "unheard of" for European countries to put the kibbush on freedom of speech.

But, regardless of who the intended audience is for this, isn't it chilling
that "The Leader In News" would be suggesting limits on speech?

For the first time in a long time, I'm speechless.

here's a response from a friend who is one of those fence-sitting, devil's advocate, English professor types. Pangloss, anyone?

A BS question if I ever heard one, but good news is,
the nos are beating the yesses 60/40. And the fairness
doctrine would make me point out that CNN is merely
asking the question if people think the protests
should stop. The question itself does not necessarily
imply that they think the protests should end. Now, if
Fox had been the one asking the question, their
history of bad consciousness would make me more likely
to assume that they were looking for a yes answer as
the "right" one. Again, the good news is that 60% (a
landslide in politics) doesn't agree that the protests
have gone on too long, so even if they're suggesting
that people need to shut up, the people aren't
agreeing, apparently.

my numb response:
given the *perception* that MSM has already "gone too far" in pandering to the Republicans' talking points, i think it's time to get serious about what it means.

[The Backlash Cometh]

72. Is it time for CNN to stop posting stupid polls?

Yo, brainiacs at CNN, there will be a direct relationship between the protests and the longevity of the war. Protests will INCREASE, as the war drags on. If you can't figure this out for yourself, maybe it's time to hand in your cable license?

[Hamsta1]

75. protests? what protests?

Here is the score:
US: 100,000+
Them: 1,698(1,522 US)

We're winning folks, why would you protest something we're winning?
That's not even counting all people we're torturing, murdering, and rendering in the name of "freedom" and "liberty".

What's that? Those numbers represent people who have been KILLED because we rushed to war under false pretenses(NO!) and are currently occupying a country that wants nothing more than for us to leave, whether or not the doorknob hits us on our collective asses, while corporations are pocketing billions in profits that come out of OUR pockets as taxpayers, while our "legislators" are "forced" to hack and slash funding for programs that actually benefit us here at home yet still run astronomical deficits while ignoring the possible consequences of this?

Hey, if they can get away with all that then I can get away with a run-on sentence of those proportions.

PS-voted 'no' on that foolish poll

[Wilms]

76. kick n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

78. Voted NO - and sent to my email list

urging all of them to vote no, as well.

:kick:

[Pallas180]

79. Email CNN asking did this poll come as a directive from the WH ???

I think its time to tell them that if they keep it up, we're turning them off.

60,000 emails would get their attention

[DUBYASCREWEDUS]

80. WHY NOT??

Then we could spend more time getting "important" news like the Scott Peterson trial, the Robert Blake trial, the Michael Jackson circus/trial, the right-a-person-USED-to-have regarding the right to die, you know, important stuff like that. Wars in Iraq, and soon to come to a neighborhood near you -- wars in Iran/North Korea/etc. - all those dead and wounded -- who wants to read about depressing stuff like that. Come on people. What's wrong with you???

[Norquist Nemesis]

81. Post-Schiavo poll: Is it time to end Pro-Choice Protests?

That the next one in the cue.

[raccoon]

82. Of all the stupid polls

I sent CNN the following email:

I cannot believe your ridiculous Quickvote "poll" question:
"Two years on, is it time to end protests against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq?"

In case you weren't aware of it, dissent is as American as apple pie. Remember studying about the Boston Tea Party? What's wrong with peaceful protest against government policies/actions you don't agree with it? Do you folks at CNN have a problem with that?

The US is SUPPOSED to be a democracy, where we are still (so far) have the right to peacefully protest.

So much for the so-called "liberal" media. You at CNN, and the other mainstream media, are very reactionary.
It is a sad commentary on the state of affairs in this country that journalists, who are SUPPOSED to be impartial, would even put up such a biased question.

[outrage]

83. WTF?! Hell no, it's not time to stop...

When this administration and its "president", puts down the collective crack pipe and get's us the fuck out of Iraq, then it will be time. Until then, there should be protests every flippin' year that we're over there and I don't care who is in the white house, though presumably, hopefully, an incoming democrat will get us out of there post haste. Stupid CNN poll...

[robertpaulsen]

84. CNN is afraid. In LA, they had at least 12 armed cops guarding them.

I was at the protest on Saturday in LA. As we marched past the CNN building, a fellow marcher pointed out the obscene number of cops surrounding the building, had to be a dozen or more.

Why? What the hell do they think people marching for peace will do?

[Wilms]

86. kick n/t

[SteppingRazor]

87. Hold on! To be fair...

Did you see Jack Cafferty's e-mail question this morning? Something along the lines of "Is it right for Congress to be discussing steroids and Schiavo when there's a war on and a massive deficit?"

Now, conservatives would scream at that question. And we're screaming at their online poll question. So who's right here? Either question could be seen as an example of bias to one side or the other.

[paineinthearse]

88. I'll bet a dollar the freepers are freeping this.

CNN polls are pieces of schist.

[donheld]

91. YES it is time to end protests against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq?"

and start protesting like hell the OCCUPATION of Iraq. It's too late to protest what's already over, but past time to protest the continuing occupation of Iraq.

[Auntie Bush]

93. 59% No- 41%Yes at 8:51

[Synnical]

94. It's a Push Poll

Obviously. The better question would have been, "Do you agree with the protests against the Iraq War"? I would call it an invasion, but the WH still insists that it was started to liberate Iraq. ("WMD? Huh? Well, we thought they were there" notwithstanding.) So, CNN, IMO, is taking the middle ground. But, it's still a push poll.

[LiberalLovinLug]

96. Its all in the plan to wear down resistance

This latest poll question is just one more brick in the wall. It is meant to target the fence-sitters, you know the idiots in the middle who just can't take on the responsibility to declare themselves decided on any issue, the ones we have to cater to every election.

This was put out there for them, to create the false impression that "everyone who's anybody" is starting to ask that question, as so maybe I should to.

One brick at a time, it seems their goal is to build a wall to shield Americans from truth.

Aren't News organizations supposed to do the opposite?

[MsMagnificent]

97. 59% No 10:54 EST

[Der Blaue Engel]

98. Blewch.

My e-mail to CNN:

"Two years on, is it time to end protests against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq?"

Wow. Jeff Gannon is that you? Two years on, is it time to start being responsible journalists and stop pandering to the White House?

P.S., Your soul called. It wants to know if you're going to be coming back to the pawn shop or if this is a permanent separation.

[davidthegnome]

99. Hell no

Voted no. What an idiotic poll. We need to protest MORE.

[Albert Cirrus]

100. Stupid question

We'll stop protesting when bush apologizes, resigns, and gets thrown in jail with tom delay, cheney, and rumsfeld.

[FreedomAngel82]

101. And people say

the meida is liberal. HAHAHAHAH!!! :crazy:

[FM Arouet666]

102. It is time to stop watching CNN.

I quit, I no longer watch cable or network news. Liberal bias my ass. With the rise in popularity of Faux News, all the other news outlets have pandered to the right wing.

Is it time to end protests against the war???? No it is time to end the fucking war!!!!! How pathetic.

[Knight of Ni]

103. I've got your poll question RIGHT HERE.....

More than five years on, is it time for CNN to end its ass-kissing of the Republicans?