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Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
Tue May 12, 2015, 06:27 PM May 2015

Media quote HRC's "trust" % but Where's the poll on Benghazi Invest. Trust %? Well Fox found 63% saw

the GOP's Benghazi Inquisitions as a GOP political tactic rather than a search for any truth (Fox poll 5/14). But do the Media quote that number when discussing Hillary's "Trust" numbers?

Fox News Polls finds 63% think Congressional Republicans are using Benghazi "for political gain".


I think Fox News may have stumbled onto something.

This is from their poll dated 5/14:


[div class="excerpt" style="background:#ddffdd;"]Do you think Republicans in Congress who are investigating the Benghazi terrorist attacks are mostly doing it to get to the truth about what happened or are they mostly doing it for political gain?

__ Get to the truth: 30%

__ Political gain: 63%


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And what are the Media's Trust No's? 40%


Poll: Public Lacks Trust in Media - Gallup poll finds public has little trust in the news media.
Bad news for the news media: A new poll finds that Americans' confidence in the media's ability to report the news "fully, accurately and fairly" has returned to its previous all-time low of 40 percent, according to Gallup.

Only four in 10 Americans express a "great deal" or a "fair amount" of confidence in newspapers, television and radio in reporting the news, a return to the lowest level, recorded in 2012. The trust factor had increased a bit, to 44 percent in 2013, but has dropped since then.

Trust among Democrats has declined to a 14-year low of 54 percent, down from 60 percent in 2013. Trust among Republicans is at 27 percent, a decline from 33 percent in 2013, and trust among independents is at 38 percent, about the same as the 37 percent from 2013, according to Gallup.
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But "Wait a minute" you say. You are including the effect of the Republicans in that Media trust figure. And everybody knows that the GOP minions have a completely paranoic - out of touch with reality - belief that the Media are 'against' them!!(???)

... Well, you have a point there. And that's exactly what the media are doing when they quote HRC's "Trust" no's without commenting on the hysterical belief of the GOP's minions that HRC did something nefarious or is directly responsible for the death of Christopher Stevens, former U.S. Ambassador to Lybia even though when asked (in a Fox poll (!?)), 63% admitted that the Benghazi inquisitions were a political manuever of the GOP).

But the media eager to curry favor among the fascisti, keeps talking about HRC's "Trust" no's as if it's a meaningful statistic when it's just a measure of the effectiveness of the GOP's standard tactic of McCarthyism/demonization.

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Media quote HRC's "trust" % but Where's the poll on Benghazi Invest. Trust %? Well Fox found 63% saw (Original Post) Bill USA May 2015 OP
Corporate media wants a one party system and it don't include HRC Iliyah May 2015 #1

Iliyah

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1. Corporate media wants a one party system and it don't include HRC
Tue May 12, 2015, 06:41 PM
May 2015

But alas they are very pleased that Dems are beating up each other tho.

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