AP's RON FOURNIER is unethical and a Racist Asshole!

[FrenchieCat]

I am highly disturbed with the manner in which Ron Fournier is attempting to stoke racism just because he can. Associated Press really has become quite frightening as of late. Read the following cathing analysis by Al Giordano of Ron Fournier's 9/20/08 racist article titled: "Poll: Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama" http://news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-political-pulse-obama-race

The article was plastered just about everywhere yesterday, and is still lingering today.
And this is the response to Ron Fournier's racist little rat ass...

The AP’s Ron Fournier: Racial Arsonist and Unethical Journalist
September 20, 2008 at 1:44 pm
By Al Giordano

"Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks - many calling them "lazy," "violent" or responsible for their own troubles."

- Ron Fournier, Associated Press, September 20, 2008


"Theorem: The amount of time conservatives spend talking about the Bradley Effect is inversely proportional to the fortunes of their candidate.

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- Nate Silver, September 19, 2008

Today's AP story wasn't exactly about the so-called "Bradley Effect" or "Wilder Effect," a popular theory in the 1980s and 1990s that posited that some white Americans lie to pollsters claiming they will support African-American candidates but vote then against them in the secrecy of the ballot box.

The theory - if it was true back then - has been very thoroughly disproved in recent years, and today we'll walk you through all the documentation you need to debunk it when asked about it by others.

But with the McCain-Palin ticket sinking in the polls, and the financial crisis sucking the oxygen out of the culture war "issues" on all sides, with the economy now front and center as the dominant campaign issue, we're hearing increasing mention of the so-called "Bradley Effect," the so-called "Wilder Effect," the so-called "Bradley-Wilder Effect" (all names for the same 20th century theory).

And now, the Associated Press and its unethical reporter Ron Fournier are transparently attempting to turn the November election (and, if their attempted arson is successful, its aftermath for years to come) into a wedge to divide, polarize and set back race relations in the United States of America more than four decades.

Everybody take a deep breath and repeat after me: The race card is not working. It's not going to work. And we're not going to take the bait being dangled out in front of us by racially prejudiced provocateurs like Fournier: he wants us to spread his gasoline to make his arson fire bigger; we're going to hose water on it - and on him - instead.

Read the rest at the link: http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/ap%E2%80%99s-ron-fournier-racial-arsonist-and-unethical-journalist

quotes from the article....

"In fact, if we review the actual poll - rather than Fournier's spin - it provides very good news for those that want Obama to win.

In the real data from the AP poll, Obama's favorable-to-negative rating (54 percent favorable to 41 negative, or 13+) is better than McCain's (50 to 42, or 8+). And Obama towers over McCain among those that have a "very favorable" opinion of each candidate, with 30 percent to just 13 for McCain.

Obama leads this poll (which casts a net much wider than "likely voters" or even "registered voters"): Obama 40 percent to 35 for McCain. Bob Barr receives one percent support and Ralph Nader, 2 percent.

If you take away the undecideds, that's Obama 51.2 percent to McCain 44.8 percent with third party candidates getting the remaining four percent."

[Hope And Change]

1. K & R!

[madrchsod]

2. ap is america`s pravda

no matter what ron prints to support palin/mccain, the truth about them is just to hard to cover up....

[Iterate]

3. Just because it’s ‘AP’ doesn’t make it so.

Thank You.

It only takes a minute to search a reporters name and look through previous reports for a pattern. It’s just a habit of simple skepticism and critical thinking.

With Ron Fournier the pattern is such an obvious abuse of journalistic trust that any reports with a whiff of his byline need to be red-flagged as the latest attempt at manipulation.

[Hope And Change]

4. Questioning the race poll

September 20, 2008
Categories: http://dyn.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/index.cfm/category/BarackObama">Barack Obama

Questioning the race poll

My colleague David Paul Kuhn, a serious poll junkie, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13669.html">has an interesting catch:

The AP study also seems to have been conducted among a population of Democrats more skeptical of Obama than normal. While both the ABC News /Washington Post polls and the massive weekly summaries of the Gallup Poll show that since late August between 83 and 85 percent of Democrats say they will vote for Obama, the AP study interviewed a population where only seven in 10 Democrats said they support Obama.


By Ben Smith 06:52 PM


http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Questioning_the_race_poll.html#comments">Link

[formercia]

5. Bradley effect is just like phantom GOP voters

It's part of the run-up to election theft to explain away the statistical anomalies created by vote-flipping.

[bluedem77]

6. Fournier is off-base

30% of white Democrats said they think blacks in generals are "violent," but what Fournier doesn't tell us is that this is not the same as saying OBAMA is violent.
Plus just because a few White Dems. hold this view, it doesn't mean it's true that this group is violent.

[HughMoran]

8. Holy crap

That's one racist perspective you got there.

[HughMoran]

7. Thanks for posting this

The Fournier story was very negative and needed to be put into perspective.

[FrenchieCat]

9. Fournier playing with fire......

and at the end, I hope he gets totally burned!