Vote for Cindy in this poll about arrest

[Patrick Henry]

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060131204009990009&ncid=NWS00010000000001

Also, vote that the GOP's wife should have left. They didn't arrest her. Cindy spent four hours under arrest - but the GOP creep's wife got a pass.

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Done

What do you think about Cindy Sheehan's arrest?
I agree with it 58%
I oppose it 37%
Not sure 5%
Should Beverly Young have been kicked out for her pro-troop t-shirt?
No 51%
Yes 41%
Not sure 8%
Total Votes: 185,644
Note on Poll Results at 2:07pm est

And of course only Cindy was arrested. UGH!

[BlacknBlue in Red NC]

9. Both should have been allowed to stay, or both should have been

asked to leave, or both should have been arrested. Equal treatment "under the law," right?:sarcasm:

[Oceansaway]

2. Done...n/t

[boobooday]

3. I think they both had a right to wear their t-shirts

But why was one "asked to leave" and the other arrested? (rhetorical question)

[Cults4Bush]

6. yep and exactly!... both of them should have been able to stay.

... the numbers in this poll skew so bushco its not even funny.

[Cults4Bush]

4. I cant believe the level of hypocrisy that poll represents! n/t

[meganmonkey]

5. Um, sorry, I think that civil rights apply to all

and I voted that Cindy's arrest was wrong, and that Beverly Young should have been able to stay.

Why the double standard?

[Cults4Bush]

7. Hypocrisy is the religion of power, most Murkans converted in 2001.

Love ya Megan!

[meganmonkey]

12. Thanks, love!

:pals:

[KurtNYC]

14. Yes - it is called "Hypo-christian" n/t

[PATRICK]

15. Because the poll question was rigged

I answered the second one as if the supposed law in the first one was to be fairly and universally applied. My implied understanding is no worse than their intimidating clever double standard implication.

perhaps the liberal or alternate news sites could get together with a mire widely circulated, more "scientific" and fair online polling to combat this nonsense while pointing out the slant and abuse of these other "prestigious" mainstream sites. If methods could be used to inhibit cheating and repeating that would help.

Suggestions should be made to these "unscientific" "entertainment" polls that viewers try their own hand at posing the questions with the tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the editors should judge the winning entries on fairness and explain it in offering them online.

[meganmonkey]

18. Fair enough, I guess

or should I say "unfair" enough ;)

I don't take these online polls very seriously, because they are so off-the-wall most of the time, just like this one. But sometimes they can be rather interesting. It is hard to tell if they really are trying to push an agenda or if they are just totally incompetent!

Peace!

[PATRICK]

20. Incompetent or on purpose

The best course is to look dispassionately at the result either way being the same. That goes for work where it would be an act of kindness to say management is maliciously planning things(or smart enough) to destroy the business or rattle the employees.

[CanOfWhoopAss]

8. done but I think the polls are being freeped with script bots.

[Cults4Bush]

17. They've been botting all the polls since last night, they always do after

a major speech or known event.

I have yet to see Liberals setting up bots (clearing the cache and voting more than once, yes but bots... never). Im starting to think maybe we should. We should also watch the usual sites and see if any posts go up with a poll link (like we have here) and inform the relevant site that it is being freeped and thus skewed as that is exactly what they do with us every time a poll thread shows up here someone at FR writes an email saying we are skewing it.

[acmavm]

10. 1:21 P.M. CST. (Both should have been left alone!!!)

What do you think about Cindy Sheehan's arrest?
I agree with it 58%
I oppose it 37%
Not sure 5%
Should Beverly Young have been kicked out for her pro-troop t-shirt?
No 52%
Yes 41%
Not sure 8%
Total Votes: 199,722

[mzteris]

11. dagnab it!

Why is it that on about half (or more) of these AOL poll pages - I HAVE NO POLL!!! WHY is that?

[mod mom]

13. still 58% agree with it with 206,000 votes.

[jrw14125]

16. Note the biased wording in the poll itself

Besides the blatant hypocricy of a majority responding that cindy shld be arrested for wearing a tshirt (obviously freeped) but that the other woman shouldn't be asked to leave for wearing a tshirt, the bigger problem is the biased wording of the poll.

Notice how the other woman had a "pro-troop" tshirt on, according to the poll, while the question about Cindy simply asks "What do you think about Cindy Sheehan's arrest?"

1. Cindy's shirt (which may or may not have said "support the troops" on the back) listed the # of casualties & said "how many more?" on the front. To many in this country, this is "pro-troop," but the poll assumes that the other woman was wearing a pro-troop tshirt ("Support the Troops -- Defending Our Freedom") and Cindy was not.

2. The question about Cindy simple asks if her "arrest" was agreeable. I would posit that many readers assume that most arrests are lawful and legitimate and that police wouldn't have made an arrest unless necessary, and would be biased based that belief to believe that her arrest was proper or lawful.

Just my 2 cents.

[bustarbusto]

19. Done. That is...

...I voted that neither one of them should have been hassled. It's utterly insane that people can be dislodged for wearing a T-shirt. First Amendment, anyone?

Kicked.