O'Reilly Quote a Gallup Poll Tonight, which he said showed 70%

[Justice]

support from the "folks"

I cannot find that poll - anyone else?

It was in his talking points before Wes Clark was on.

[Mark Williams]

1. screenshot

ill look for the screenshot of that poll and put it online.

[Justice]

5. thanks - maybe I am wrong, I was so ripped at his nonsense, but

I thought that was what he said - he kept saying folks supported and liked speech but the left wing media didn't like it.

[Mark Williams]

6. Screenshot Link

Here is the screenshot.

[Justice]

9. Where does that come from? Look at this spin

www.gallup.com

"Overall, the sample of 323 speech watchers rated Bush's speech in positive terms -- with 46% describing their reaction as "very positive" and an additional 28% "somewhat positive"

O'Reilly takes the 46 plus 28 to get 74. He takes very positve and somewhat positive and calls it "like" So he takes the 323 people polled -- calls them Americans and posts this crap.

[alcuno]

14. Did you catch this line?

"The results of Tuesday's instant-reaction poll suggest the speech was not widely viewed -- nearly half of Americans who indicated to Gallup before the speech that they intended to watch it said they did not do so when successfully re-contacted by Gallup in the first half-hour following the speech's conclusion."

[BamaLefty]

13. WTF?

The left wing press? What does that douchebag think he is? In the press... and right wing!

Hey Bill, the phone is ringing you fucked up waste of human life. Talk her sweet ya hear?

[eleny]

2. Maybe he read it in The Paris Business Review?

[tk2kewl]

3. he makes shit up

[ailsagirl]

4. They don't call him "O'Lielly" for nothiing!!

I would seriously doubt such a poll exists. Even if it
does, it's from Gallup, and they're heavy rethugs.

So either way you look at it, it's a :puffpiece: puffpiece

(First time EVER I have used that avatar!!)

(or seen it used) :)

[sonicx]

7. oreilly is bullshitting. the poll he is talking about...

is not a * approval poll. It was a reaction poll to the speech, it was about 70% 'very' or 'somewhat' positive response to the speech. Most reaction polls to speeches have positive reactions. That doesn't mean it will effect * overall approval rating. the reaction numbers to the it are lower than most of his other speeches AND had very low viewership (20 mil).

Oh, and i beat O dummy didn;t mention that over half the poll's respondants were Republicans.

[gumby]

8. Heard PigMan Limbaugh saying that the polls

approving Bush's speech were very high. Only heard it in passing and I think he said something about a 'flash poll' right after the speech.

Maybe the Pe-uw pollsters called up Cheney and Rice and the family pets right after the speech.

[Justice]

10. Flash Poll of 323 people - self identified as Republicans

[Lexingtonian]

11. That's the Gallup/CNN poll

The one where they called 1000 in advance but only a third actually watched.

The final sample of ~350 was something like 50% Republicans, 26% Independents, 24% Democrats. The "strong positive response" was 46%, the "positive" response was 28%...something like that.

So O'Reilly grabs the 46% and 28% and suddenly has 74% 'support',

All it was that 90% of Republican-identifying folks responded "strong positive", everybody else didn't care much.

That's 38% 'support' when you normalize it against the full population.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics. Bush got Republicans to stop fraying for while, nothing else is evident (yet). That's at most a 4-5% blip upwards.

[Justice]

12. yes, thanks