Media Matters RIPS Judy WoofWoof and CNN

[kaitykaity]

**Judy has just been too blatant lately, and here
David Brock just SPANKS her. Goodie.


http://mediamatters.org/items/200410210014

CNN repeatedly reported pro-Bush polling numbers, while ignoring numbers that favor Kerry

CNN has repeatedly reported polls that show good news for President George W. Bush, while ignoring polls that are more favorable to Senator John Kerry -- even when they are more recent than the polls CNN reports.

On October 18, Inside Politics host Judy Woodruff gave an assessment of the presidential race by combining the results of five recent polls -- CNN/USA Today/Gallup, Newsweek, TIME magazine, ABC/Washington Post, and IBD/TIPP -- into a "poll of polls" of likely voters that showed Bush with a five-point lead. But, inexplicably, the "poll of polls" didn't include two fresh polls that showed the race tied: one by Zogby, one by Rasmussen.

That same day, a CNN graphic read "Polls: Bush's favorability rating rose from 51% to 55%." But that was a misuse of the plural, and a misleading claim: only one recent poll showed Bush's approval at 55 percent, while three others showed it between 49 and 51 percent.

The next day, CNN anchor Daryn Kagan claimed that a "comprehensive overview of five post-debate polls shows the Bush campaign having a bit more breathing room; it shows Bush with a four-percentage-point lead, just beyond the margin of error." But the "overview" wasn't "comprehensive" -- it omitted the most recent poll, as well as three other post-debate polls. Coincidentally, all four of the polls omitted from the "comprehensive overview" showed better results for Kerry than the polls used in the "overview" showed.

Kagan was also wrong about that "four-percentage-point lead" -- it wasn't "just beyond the margin of error," it was well within the margin of error. The on-screen graphic indicated that the margin of error was four points; what Kagan (or her CNN writers and producers) should know by know is that margins of error apply independently to both numbers. Thus, for a lead to be "outside" a four-point margin of error, the lead must be more than eight points.

Also on October 19, CNN host Rick Sanchez referred to a weeks-old poll that showed Bush with a seven-point lead in Ohio -- despite the fact that there were no fewer than five more recent Ohio polls, all of which showed a closer race and the most recent of which gave Kerry a two-point lead.

On October 21, Woodruff was at it again, reading a series of state polls, all of which were quite favorable for Bush. But for at least three of the states -- New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Michigan -- there was more recent polling that showed better results for Kerry.

[Benhurst]

1. Judy Woodruff is out of her league. She should have taken

the job offer for hostess of TALES FROM THE CRYPT.

[siliconefreak]

2. She's a dingbat

I think I've even heard Chris Matthews make disparaging remarks about the "softball" political show on one of the other networks. I've gotta believe he was referring to Inside Politics/Judy Woodruff.

[senseandsensibility]

7. Usually I object to

stereotypical comments like "dingbat" used about women, but in her case it applies. I have finally realized she is very,very stupid. There is no other explanation for her demented deer in the headlights look whenever a guest says something remotely negative about chimp, and her almost comical inability to see anything from outside the beltway. She is one stupid, scared woman.

[morcatknits]

10. Curious

How she can be so pro-Bush when it is well known that Bush ran across Woodruff and her husband Al Hunt and their child, dining in Dallas, and cursed them very embarrasingly in about 1995, I think it was. Personally, I wouldn't take kindly to that.
morcatknits

[kaitykaity]

11. She's a whore?

You can treat a whore any way you want as long
as you pay them after.

[calimary]

14. Maybe it thoroughly intimidated her. After all, her little boy was sitting

right there. These are vindictive, scheming little shits. We never heard the rest of it - about what impact it had on her kid, if it gave him nightmares, or what. She's a mom, too, after all. If it were me, during that climate of fear, and I was pressured into thinking that I had a lot at risk, I'm not sure what I'd do. I think I'd be turning myself inside out about this.

Besides, we haven't heard whether or not there was any follow-up to his verbal attack of them...perhaps she got some rovian reminder phone call or something during the anthrax scare? Hey - I wouldn't rule ANYTHING out with these people.

[freeminder]

3. That "poll of polls" is sickening

saw it right there on my teevee again, today.

CNN is al I get here in Europe. Since being on DU, I can hardly watch it.

[nosmokes]

4. great article about the libruhl media... spread this around

to all your friends.

a discouraged person is far less likely to go to the polls, and that's why they're feeding us this bullshit.

shills. fucking corporate shills every damn place you look.

[HuskerDem]

5. Daryn Kagen

Rush's blow up doll. They expect her to be fair?

[SW FL Dem]

6. You can email the article to a friend

I emailed it to Judy!

[Kimber Scott]

8. ROFLMAO! Good thinking!

:toast:

[bush equals idiot]

9. She can't read.

She has only one of the senses. Smell !

[PSU84]

12. Woodruff is a right wing media whore.

She's trying to out-whore Andrea Mitchell.

[mikehiggins]

13. They know its over but they still have to sell cars

I think most of the real political pros, like Jack Valenti and Craig Crawford and others, know the race is all over but the counting. We have to get our people to the polls, of course, and everyone has to watch Diebold with an eagle eye, but the truth is that this election is over.

The incumbent president in a time of war is more or less tied with his opponent ten days before Election Day? The battleground states are going Kerry? More and more people are coming to see that the Chimp is a total fuckup and even Pat Robertson is claiming he's a whackjob.

The only people with a stake in keeping this going work for the media companies. If we all tune out, who's gonna watch their multi-million dollar broadcasts from Rock Center?

Howard Dean for FCC Commissioner!

[DeepModem Mom]

15. kick

[JusticeForAll]

16. Ahhh my favorite topic...Judy!

someone is offended by the term dingbat?

I can think of plenty more offensive terms that could be aptly applied to Woofwoof without being stereotypical or untrue.