CNN's Blitzer & Malveaux say Bush's plummeting numbers are "improving"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Bush's poll numbers are in free fall, but CNN's Malveaux claimed they are improving

http://mediamatters.org/items/200509120007

On the September 12 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux claimed that "we have seen poll numbers improve" since Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen took charge of the Bush administration's Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts -- despite the fact that most publicly available polling shows the Bush administration's numbers in a free fall. Later in the program, Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer claimed that Bush's poll numbers are going up -- but used a misleading comparison of different polls conducted by different news organizations using different methodologies in order to do so.

From the September 12 edition of The Situation Room:

BLITZER: Suzanne, Thad Allen, the vice admiral, the Coast Guard vice admiral for more than three decades, he's been the man designated by the secretary of homeland security and the president to be in charge of this Katrina relief, the recovery effort, the reconstruction effort. I assume his name has to be very high on the list as a possible successor to Mike Brown. I don't know if you're picking up any nibbles out there about other names or how quickly the president will move on this front. What are you hearing?

MALVEAUX: Well, Wolf, what we're hearing is certainly that this is a man who stepped in even before Mike Brown essentially was put aside, cast aside, this is someone who was already carrying that out, carrying that duty out, by his actions as well as that title, that that is something they are certainly considering, that he has moved in very quickly, that we have seen poll numbers improve, we have seen morale improve, that overall they think that the effort that the administration is doing has improved tremendously over the last 10 or so days that, when that transition was made, so he certainly is one of those candidates.

BLITZER: President Bush's stepped-up response to the Katrina disaster may be helping to push up his poll numbers a little bit. A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey out this hour shows Mr. Bush's approval rating is up -- up! -- to 46 percent. That's four to eight points higher than other polls taken over the past week.

[ClassWarrior]

1. Kinda like New Orleans has been "improving" over the past week?

NGU.

[ElectroPrincess]

2. They couldn't be more transparent "Executive Branch Whores"

... well, only if they followed up these blatant *lies* with the term "He's MAKING PROGRESS!"

CNN's top of putrid slime, Rove-Co., butt boy (and girl) shills! :puke:

[Atman]

3. Here's .25 cents, Leslie...buy a clue...

That's four to eight points higher than other polls taken over the past week.

Why do you think that is, Leslie? Aren't you a reporter? Don't you ask question? Oh, that's right, only of those president with a penis. You fucking idiot, Blitzer. We all know you owe your entire career to the Bush family. Can't you just recuse yourself from any more "news" until Bush is gone. Then you can move to Crawford and be his concubine and suck him off 24/7.

[Supersedeas]

13. he is no reporter...Leslie is in full spin mode

[DemsUnited]

4. Plus, no mention of Washington Post new poll which has all time low

approval of 42%, down 3% in two weeks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/12/AR2005091201158.html

[Bumblebee]

7. and that was another "inflated" one, up there with the initial Gallup.

Now they are much more in line, while Gallup is going in the opposite direction. It was the MOST INACCURATE poll during the elections; you would think that CNN might have learned by now but no such thing.

[Arkana]

5. Oh, I bet.

Wolf Blitzer has apparently reinserted the Kool-Aid enema.

[PATRICK]

6. What happened to "firming"

or "bottoming out" or "holding steady"? The choice of terms reveals organized propaganda to actually create the impression and- hopefully for Wolf's next manila bonus envelope- push the actual numbers higher.

I think most propaganda outlets fail if their product is a steady stream of manure and lies, whether it be soft propaganda, government sponsored or any other kind of Wolf in sheep's clothing. Maddeningly of course the subtle reliance on the media for news, even if distrusted, is deeply pervasive. And the alternative is buried in fog and silence creating and unfocused anger that is an extremely pernicious secondary source of a tyrant exploitation.

But the waters are rising above the dam and the damned as surely as a rising ocean.

it is far far too soon to speak of a fall, but the second part of reform or revolt is to get it right and there will be little left to educate and untie people away from the danger of trying to fix things in the aftermath. Action reaction restoration and cyclical spin that will leave a lot what is wrong intact and institutionalized in "new" ways.

There is not enough distrust of the corporate media yet to help people see their way to a decent government. And it is distrusted for different reasons or wrong reasons and accountability sliding off like water off a duck's back. When one is so successfully shunted away from public consciousness and unity in truth, ANYTHING can happen next and they will keep coming at you with dominant lies.

Lacking: national voices and leadership to match media and Boy King, coherent leadership for reform, breaking down of the minor divisions that divide the suckers and silence the best, ascendancy of the simple facts over repeated baldfaced lies, a public concern boiling over into the streets and real action, a sense of duty among the skewed and cowardly puzzled public servants who are blind guides in the fog. Missing too is any rally around true outrage in any rational sense of basic priorities and any respect or protection of those who try to do their job or speak out.

[flpoljunkie]

8. CNN is pimping for Dubya. His Katrina approval is a low 43%. You have

to ask yourself where they got the 46% from--it sure wasn't the article on CNN about their most recent poll, linked below.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/12/katrina.poll/index.html

[tritsofme]

10. 46% JA is here:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/12/bush.footing/

[Julius Civitatus]

9. "Leslie" Blitzer is a whore

He's always been a whore.

He always will be a whore.

Never forget

[tritsofme]

11. I wouldn't call him free-falling or rebounding, just stabilization

40-47% of the electorate will find him acceptable at any given time.

I doubt his JA will leave that range for any long period of time for the rest of his term.

[ThoughtCriminal]

12. Great News Mr. President!

The rate of deterioration is not accelerating as fast as it used to!