Do you believe CNN's "wuss factor" is real

[Brundle_Fly]

UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE

in regards to reporting this administration?
in regards to its reporting on 911?
in regards to GOP talking points?
in regards to real world news?

I can't for the life of me believe this was a choice by the editorial minds at a news organization, running this poll.

Is this newsworthy? Is this fair or balanced? WTF is this?

[babylonsister]

1. Call them on their bullshit-here's a link:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?41

[Brundle_Fly]

3. sent complaints to cnn

and alerted DNC, Media MAtters, Michael Moore etc etc

[AndyA]

5. Just sent CNN a Nastygram.

Told them this poll was yet another reason to watch MSNBC. I told them they didn't have much credibility to lose, and that this propaganda poll took a big chunk out of what little was left.

GO KEITH O!!

[Demit]

2. I think they all get a laugh at CNN at how many people respond to

these stupid questions. You know they're just doing it to prove they get eyeballs, don't you? Ignore the ridiculous questions. They're not serious.

[Demoiselle]

8. I think it IS serious.

Our fearless Fourth Estate has been picking up Republican talking points and treating them as serious matters of debate for years now. (Remember how they reported on the horrors of Florida in 2000? Their "balance" meant that they treated a drive to accurately count all the votes and a drive to prevent an accurate count as morally equal in a democracy. Since when is refusing to count the votes accurately a moral position in a democracy? Since 2000 when the Repukes said so and the media went along.
This morning on MSNBC we were treated to a serious discussion of the "controversial" Nancy Pelosi. Will people be happy if the House is led by a "San Francisco Liberal?" This is right wing language, rendered particularly partisan by the fact (reported on MSNBC at the same time it's pushing the "controversial" label) that a whole lot of people in the country don't even know who the hell Nancy Pelosi IS! How can you be controversial if nobody know you? Never mind, if the Right Wing shapes the questions, the media hops in line. No amount of logic, no facts (and remember, the facts are biased) make any difference.
Kathy Crowley remarked earlier this week that "If the Democrats take back Congress it will be through no fault of their own."
I think a vast majority of these "reporters" are every bit as guilty of pulling this country into the swamp as the Republicans are.
Yes, I'm mad as hell, thanks for asking.

[DaveJ]

4. Showing your weak opponent mercy

It's a throwback from past elections. Maybe the public is now smart enough to hear the word 'wuss' and associate it with Republicans who can't win in Iraq.

The only problem with Democrats is that they are boring compared to Republicans, with all their bombs, guns, killings, scandals, psychopaths... just people who want to competently run government.

:boring:

[NoAmericanTaliban]

6. In regards to the way some voters perceive Dems

Here is the article:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/24/crowley/index.html

It is part of the Broken Government series.

I don't agree that Dems are wusses , but that is played up by the Repukes. How else do you explain that a bunch of chickenhawks are considered patriotic while real war heroes like Murtha & Cleland are seen as soft. In the business environment perception is king. How people view you - the product - is often more important than the quality or substance of the product. The Repukes are very good at playing the Wuss card & this article goes into ways the Dems can overcome that. In many ways we are still fighting the culture wars of the sixties. A lot of Repukes believe that we would have won the Vietnam war is it wasn't for the anti-war movement and therefore anyone associated with that movement is considered a traitor. Of course the reality is that Vietnam was lost to begin with just like Iraq is now, but we are dealing with a bunch of folks who consider admitting mistakes a weakness.

[OzarkDem]

7. How juvenile

what is this, junior high school?

[Demit]

9. Exactly. A poll question with the word 'wuss' in it being seriously debated.

From an unscientific poll called 'QuickVote' that's in a little rectangle on a website. CNN is loving it that people are writing letters of outrage. The CNN person who came up with the idea is all aglow and ready to ask for a salary increase because of the response he/she is generating. Would that all this energy could go into letters of outrage over oh, say, habeas corpus or something.