WTF? Check out this poll

[Saphire]

READER POLL
Will the Mark Foley scandal change how you vote Nov. 7?
No

Yes, I will now vote Democrat because Republicans are not supposed to be sexual predators whereas with Democrats it is not something unexpected.

Yes, I will now vote Republican because Republicans get rid of their sexual predators rather than run them for President or give them powerful committee assignments.


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http://www.countypressonline.com/site/news.cfm?brd=2549

I'm speechless... just don't know where to start with this.

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. WTF?

:argh: That's horrible! :argh:

[cynatnite]

2. That is the most fucked up poll I've ever seen...

:wow:

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. It really is, isn't it?

[spanone]

9. That is the kind of shit that makes a man want to go postal.

[SpreadItAround]

4. Huh is right.

That just pissed me off so much I may write them.

:grr:

[RebelOne]

14. I did write them. n/t

[me b zola]

27. Do you have a link?

I looked and couldn't find one.

I want to ask them if they are feeling emasculated by all of the sexual predators in their party that are being exposed?

[AndyA]

5. I don' t know what to say. Is this Philadelphia area?

Some idiot had to have messed up the poll options. If not, it's certainly insulting to Democrats everywhere. WFT is right.

[wake.up.america]

6. stupid poll

[OhioChick]

7. WTF is right....... n/t

[bryant69]

8. That damned liberal media

Look at that - not one mention of how Democrats are traitors who don't deserve to live. Those damned reporters always playing footsie - while portraying the Republicans in the worst light possible - I mean there's no mention in there of how that wonderful President Bush protects us and keeps us safe.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[BuyingThyme]

10. Just a push poll by a Puke Nazi.

[MrModerate]

11. Pretty deranged, all right . . .

And a quick look at the rest of the site seems to show a run-of-the-mill small-paper consortium. Weird.

[meganmonkey]

12. ...

:rofl:

[RevolutionStartsNow]

13. If you want, go to the site, they "welcome" our comments

I commented as nicely as I could muster that it was the most blatantly biased set of questions I'd ever seen and that they should be ashamed of themselves. But of course all comments are reviewed, so let's see if they even post it.

[SpreadItAround]

19. Yeah, I commented as well...

...it took a lot of restraint to not lash out but I wanted my comments to be posted as well.

[genie_weenie]

15. Makes sense. After all, it was Foley's latent

Democratic tendencies which contributed to his indiscretion...

[robinlynne]

16. But the great part is that 70% said tehy will now vote democrat, in spite

of the terrible poll....

[walldude]

17. Hehe... getting a little desperate aren't they? Recommended..

[Solly Mack]

18. Some background info

There are several countypressonlines for several states.


CountyPressOnline

At the bottom of the page you see this

TownNews

If you look up who owns TownNews you get this

Lee Enterprises

Which leads us here

Media Owners

and this gives us

Lloyd Schermer

"They are Prescott Low of the Quincy, Mass., Patriot Ledger, who seized on electronic typesetting; Lloyd Schermer of the Missoula, Mont., Missoulian, who broke labor union hegemony; and Paul Miller of Gannett, who exploited IRS-mandated changes in estate-tax appraisal.

Strong trade unions kept photocomposition machines out of many pressrooms, fearing correctly that they would destroy jobs. Schermer's only alternative to photocomposition machines was bankruptcy, so he outwitted the unions with a negotiation strategy that got the machines into his newspaper on his terms, not theirs. To simplify the story, other publishers imitated Schermer, and by the early 1980s many had routed the unions and become hugely profitable.

Family-owned newspapers celebrated their new profitability until the IRS started appraising newspapers by their soaring market values instead of their assets. In the 1960s and 1970s, gift and inheritance taxes stood at about 70 percent, Neiva writes, and under the new IRS rules most newspaper heirs didn't have the cash to pay the new tax bill. Paul Miller of Gannett helped aging owners and their heirs dodge the IRS by trading shares in Gannett for their papers, building the chain out to 79 papers by the time he retired in 1979. Other chains imitated Gannett, accelerating newspaper consolidation"


Campaign contributions of Schermer, Lloyd

Schermer, Betty A Ms. (Homemaker), (Zip code: 81611) $10000 to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE on 06/21/04
Schermer, Lloyd G Mr. (Retired), (Zip code: 81611) $10000 to REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE on 06/21/04

[yodermon]

23. Augh! 81611 = ASPEN Colorado

they are turning
:tinfoilhat:
:tinfoilhat:

[Solly Mack]

26. LOL!

Don't know about that...but townnews isn't without a right wing connection

and I thought the union busting of the majority owner was interesting

[VOX]

29. Yes! Excellent research, Solly Mack!

Thanks for going the extra mile -- much appreciated! :toast:

[Solly Mack]

33. Welcome! See post 32 for more on the specific countypressonline

mentioned in the OP.

Synnical did some more research

[Drifter]

20. Heres another example ....

Poll: What are your political leanings.

a) I hate Democrats because they are stupid
b) I hate Democrats because they are child molesters
c) I love Republicans


Cheers
Drifter

[Avalux]

21. Who wrote those questions, lol?!!

Good to know 71% will vote Democratic even though Democrats are like that anyway. :applause:

[Triana]

22. What rightwingnut MORON wrote THAT?

Rediculous.

[Scoot420fla]

24. How do you write these people???

There is a line at the bottom that says:

Send us your community news, events, letters to the editor and other suggestions. Now, you can submit birth, wedding and engagement announcements online too!

But no link!!

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Gee! You Think The Editors Have A Bias?

Damn liberals in the media.
The Professor

[Scoot420fla]

28. Wrote to editor:

What is this poll all about? I am nothing short of outraged that you would post a poll giving your readers a choice between saying it is expected for democrats to be sexual predators and that republicans ‘get rid’ of their predators and don’t give them ‘powerful committee assignments’. It is simply absurd and insulting to say these things. You are trying to manipulate your readers by giving them, loaded, unfair, ignorant and insulting polls to vote on. How about this for a choice on your poll:

Yes, I will now vote Democrat because the republican party is and always has been a group of criminal pedophiles that hand out positions of power to cronies with no experience and who put child predators on the committees that are supposed to protect children.

Or how about:

No, I am still voting democrat because the republicans are a corrupt group of criminals.

Instead you just put:

Will the Mark Foley scandal change how you vote Nov. 7?
No

Yes, I will now vote Democrat because Republicans are not supposed to be sexual predators whereas with Democrats it is not something unexpected.

Yes, I will now vote Republican because Republicans get rid of their sexual predators rather than run them for President or give them powerful committee assignments.

S H

[calimary]

30. Hey, for whatever it's worth, the Democrats are leading - with 77%.

I'll take a win wherever I can get it.

[Reverend_Smitty]

31. It looks like it's somehow affiliated with Journal Register

I don't know if they are owned by the same parent company or what but I know that one of our local papers is owned by that company and they are blatantly RW as well...so I guess it's just par for the course for them

[Synnical]

32. This is a tiny weekly Freeper publication

http://www.journalregister.com/press/10142002.html

October 17, 2002
Journal Register Company Expands in Suburban Philadelphia with Acquisition of Seven Delaware County Publications

Acquisition includes seven weekly publications with distribution of approximately 24,000

TRENTON, NJ -- Journal Register Company (NYSE: JRC) Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Robert M. Jelenic announced today the Company's acquisition of the newspapers owned by Crowe Printers and Publishers, Inc. and the Lawrence family, based in Springfield, Pennsylvania. The acquisition includes seven weekly newspapers serving Delaware County. The newspapers acquired are the Springfield Press, County Press, Garnet Valley Press, Hometown Press, Haverford Press, Media Press and Upper Darby/Drexel Hill Press. This acquisition further expands Journal Register Company's Greater Philadelphia Cluster of award-winning newspapers to 120 daily and non-daily publications.

<snip>

Richard L. Crowe has been named publisher of the group, and William W. Lawrence II will serve as editor. Reese Crowe will continue his involvement with the publications being acquired and will work with Journal Register Company to integrate them into Journal Register Company's Suburban Philadelphia newspapers to maximize the benefits of the combination of these publications. William W. Lawrence Sr. will remain as senior editorial advisor and consultant.

Here is one of the Lawrence's barfing up Freeper garbage:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17306991&BRD=2549&PAG=461&dept_id=514258&rfi=6

Second Thoughts 10-11-06
By William W. Lawrence
10/10/2006

About a thousand resolute supporters of Republican Diana Irey, led by my good friends on the Free Republic website, held a "Boot Murtha" rally in Johnstown's Cambria County War Memorial Arena, last week. The get-together was deemed a colossal success. It will be even more of a success if Democrat John Murtha, a 16-term congressman, who is calling for us to cut and run in Iraq and who has falsely accused our troops of cold-blooded murder and war crimes, loses to Ms. Irey.

***
A tip of the battered old Second Thoughts Stetson to the hard-working Democrats and members of the left wing liberal media that nailed another depraved Republican. That really is a well-deserved and sincere tip of the hat. What I will criticize, however, is the timing. Although members of the press had the information months ago, the story was saved as an obvious "October Surprise" to hurt the Republicans during the November election.
America would be much better served if the mainstream media went after all crooks, perverts, bigots and ne'er-do-wells in both parties!
That will happen when pigs fly.
However, we will take what we can get in our ongoing quest for good government.

[NaturalHigh]

34. Dumbest poll I've ever seen.

Frankly, I doubt that the whole Foley mess is going to change many minds on either side.

[Bucky]

35. Grrrrr. He's calling us "Democrats" instead of "Democratics"...

Oh wait... Nevermind.

78% are saying they'll vote D

[we can do it]

36. Not Surprising -

[DemocratSinceBirth]

37. Projection At It's Finest..

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[DemocratSinceBirth]

38. Projection At Its Finest..

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