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About those polls

13 Wednesday Oct 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in media criticism, meta

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CBS, CNN, Joe Biden, media criticism, meta, polling, president

Joe Biden (D) [2020 file photo].

CNN Poll: Most Democrats favor a bigger bill on social safety net and climate
By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN
Updated 12:00 PM ET, Wed October 13, 2021

[….]

….President Joe Biden’s approval rating. In the new poll, 50% approve while 49% disapprove, largely unchanged from a CNN poll conducted in August and September….

The full report [pdf].

And:

CBS News Poll – October 6-8, 2021
Adults in the U.S.
Sample 2,054 Adults in the U.S.
Margin of Error ±2.6%
1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president?
Approve 50%
Disapprove 50%
[….]

Joe Biden (D) [2014 file photo].

And then there’s the old media narrative….

We’re just here for the ratio

15 Wednesday Sep 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta, social media

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bad takes, California, CNN, Gavin Newsome, Kasie Hunt, media criticism, meta, ratioed, recall

Last night:

Kasie Hunt @kasie
CA GOV BIG PICTURE: One of the top Democrats in the country got caught living like an elite while everyone else suffered. Elites vs. the rest is the driving force in our politics right now and Democrats have a tough needle to thread both in California & nationwide … (1/)
10:08 PM · Sep 14, 2021

Kasie Hunt @kasie
Democrats need to prove they can govern for EVERYBODY, and if you look at California — it’s not necessarily the best test case for national Democrats (see: concern about homelessness, crime, etc) (2/)
10:10 PM · Sep 14, 2021

Kasie Hunt @kasie
Obviously California is a Special Place — but the fact that a Democratic national star in waiting *faced* a recall and then had to fight hard for it midway through the campaign does say a lot about the potential challenges Democrats face across the map (4/)
10:12 PM · Sep 14, 2021

All that’s missing is an all-caps “DEMOCRATS IN DISARRAY”.

Some of the responses:

The person copying and pasting Republican Party press releases into tweets here is literally @CNN’s “Chief National Affairs Analyst.”

Ah yes, because when Republicans win, Democrats lose, and when Democrats win, Democrats still lose.

Shorter version of this thread: I left MSNBC because CNN is the transition road to fox.

“Faux News channel, fascist groupies” – protest sign, circa 2003- 2004.

Heh.

Gov Newsom is “living like an elite” because he went to the French Laundry for dinner?

He is Gov of the largest state in the country and will be earning $218,000 come December

You reportedly earn between $1 million and $1.5 million.

Who’s the “elite”?

Democrats are literally the ONLY ones governing; Republicans stopped governing years ago, and that fact has just been accepted as OK by the beltway media for some strange reason.

And Republicans prove they can govern for EVERYBODY? Please describe how they are doing this today?

Such a national media take.

Dems must govern for everybody.

GOP can govern for its base

You sound like NYT Pitchbot, but you mean it

Meta! Well played, well played.

It was a landslide victory Kasie.

Did you hit your head or something?

Ummm…OC even said “no” to the recall…ORANGE COUNTY. Lady, this diatribe is just outlandishly wrong.

This. Is. Absurd.

Is EVERYBODY only the Republicans and Trump?

Now do Florida and Texas.

We see what you did there.

Wut?

So I guess the problem is that Newsome didn’t get 100%, yes?

Seriously?

The ratio, it BURNS!

And on and on…

Overton Window

30 Tuesday Jul 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in media criticism, social media

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CNN, debate, Donald Trump, Fascist, media criticism, Overton Window, social media, Twitter

What liberal media?

Michael Bersin @MBersin
CNN: Do you believe your primary opponent (D) is too extreme to beat Donald Trump (r)?
Answer: Only if Donald Trump (r) orders the Reichstag to be set on fire in the week before the election.
8:17 PM · Jul 30, 2019

CNN’s only redeeming value is that they don’t have Chuck Todd.

Ed Martin seeks safe harbor on cable news

28 Thursday Sep 2017

Posted by willykay in Uncategorized

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CNN, Donald Trump, Eagle Forum, Ed Martin, Jeffrey Lord

If you needed any proof that patriotism is definitely not the last refuge of scoundrels, Ed Martin’s new berth at CNN should do it. Nowadays that honor seems to belong to cable news – Fox News usually, but other news channels, such as CNN, usually keep a pet rightwing gremlin on hand. And who better to play hobgoblin than Missouri’s own Mister Ed?

According to the Missouri Eagle Forum, which Martin now – sort of – heads, he has signed on as a CNN political commentator “effectively immediately.” He’ll be taking the place of the “Seig Heil” guy, Jeffrey Lord, whose choice of salutation got him fired a few weeks ago. As you may have guessed, given Lord’s affection for Nazi greetings, his role on various programs was to act as Trump-apologist-in-chief. Martin ought to fill the bill on a number of fronts.

Steve Bannon likes to tout Trump’s potential to create “chaos” and “disruption” – which Bannon, adhering to the fascist playbook, thinks is a good thing. Whether or not that’s true (hint: it’s not – unless you’re an aspirational Hitler), Ed Martin also seems tailor-made for creating chaos and for disrupting things. He’s made a mess of just about everything he’s done here in Missouri. Mess-making isn’t the only way, though, in which he and The Clown-in-Chief are super-simpatico. Consider the following points of comparison:

— Obstruction of Justice: Trump fired Sally Yates for warning him that if he weren’t careful, he might be implicated by the potentially illegal activities of Michael Flynn, his National Security advisor, who seems to have been cultivating various Russians, including Vladimir Putin. Martin fired Scott Eckersley, former Governor Matt Blunt’s deputy attorney, who had warned Blunt and Martin that the destruction of potentially explosive emails that were, nevertheless, subject to the state’s sunshine law, was likely illegal. Martin quite properly took the fall, and was fired in short order. The entire episode has been labeled “memogate.”

— Both make the political personal – and ugy: Martin didn’t just fire Eckersley, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he attempted to “slime” him, “disclosing his private e-mail correspondence with lawyers and reporters and ginning up allegations that the young attorney visited ‘group sex’ websites.”Of course, we’re all familiar with the copious ad hominem smears that Trump spews at his critics, ranging from the golden oldies like his concern about the blood coming out Megyn Kelley’s eyes – or from “her wherever” – to his recent effort to besmirch Mika Brzezinski.

— Bigotry: Consider Martin’s pungent sentiments on Mexican immigrants in the context of Trump’s “rapist” spiel:

Spearheading Mr. Blunt’s drive against illegal immigrants, Mr. Martin told a meeting of the Missouri Housing Commission that merely by driving by construction sites, “every friggin’ developer can figure out who is illegal.” And how could they do that? “There’s a bunch of Mexican there, I guess some of them are probably not legal,” he said.

Martin followed up on those sentiments last year, asserting at a Tea Party for Trump rally that it’s okay to hate Mexicans “because “Mexicans, that’s not a race.”

— Incompetence: As Chairman of the Missouri GOP, Martin was so inept that – in a red state yet – he managed to decimate the party’s fundraising apparatus during the two years of his tenure, which the Post-Dispatch politely described as “controversial.” Do I really have to labor the comparison to Trump here? As The Chicago Tribune’s Steve Chapman wrote earlier this summer, while many folks voted for Trump because they thought he would disrupt business as usual, they “may not have known what they were getting above all else: an incompetent,” adding that “his most formidable opponent couldn’t do half as much to foil Trump as Trump himself has done.”

–– Both are deadbeats: Trump has made a career out of stiffing the little guy – his record of defaulting on bills, leaving investors and others holding the bag while he makes out like a bandit (literally) has been described in detail by Quin Hillyer in, tellingly enough, an article in the conservative American Spectator. Martin, for his part, is currently in the news for his failure to pay a PR firm he hired to build up his renegade Eagle Forum. He’s in the hole for $130,000 dollars, but, get this, calls the PR firm that’s calling in his debt “DC swamp consultants,” equating their demands for payment to a protection racket.

— Both are con men: It has been argued that Martin, after failing as Missouri GOP chairman and in his efforts to attain elected office, owes his present gig as Director of the Eagle Forum to his ability to gull its founder, the elderly Phyllis Schlafly. At least that’s the story what her daughter are telling has implied. Trump, an arguably inept business man, mediocre reality TV star, and super huckster managed to get himself elected to the presidency of one of the most powerful countries in the world by playing on the fears and biases of a particular – and not incidentally, older – segment of the population. Now that’s some con – even if he did have the help of Russian backers.

The list could go and on, I haven’t, for instance, brought up dishonesty and corruption – there’s just too much material to cover. But, you ask, what are we to learn from this comparison? Am I maybe hinting that this is what today’s Republican Party has come to? All I can say in response is that the folks at CNN chose sleazy Ed Martin, arguably a Trump-in-miniature, to represent the conservative, Republican point of view. Draw your own conclusions.

Irony impairment

21 Monday Nov 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in media criticism, social media

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CNN, irony impairment, media criticism, social media, Twitter

This morning from CNN:

cnn112116

CNN ‏@CNN
Fake news is often shared more than real news online. Here’s what’s allowing it to thrive, and how you can stop it:
[….]
4:45 AM – 21 Nov 2016

This from the network that hired Corey Lewandowski.

The responses are priceless.

Why we exist, in one Tweet

28 Tuesday Jun 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta, social media

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CNN, Donald Trump, fools and their money, media criticism, social media, Twitter

CNN hired Donald Trump’s former (recently) campaign manager as a political talking head. There’s non-disclosure involved with the former campaign manager and the campaign. Donald Trump read a teleprompter today and CNN covered it:

AcoutFinch062816

Jennifer Hayden ‏@Scout_Finch
Turns on CNN: “Corey Lewandowski, what do you think of Trump’s speech?” Lew: “I think it was best of his…” NOPE. CLICK. 1:59 PM – 28 Jun 2016

Because CNN is doing such a great job. Nah.

Oxymoron

07 Friday Oct 2011

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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CNN, foreign policy, Jim Talent, media criticism, Mitt Romney

The headline from CNN:

Romney assembles top-notch foreign policy team

(CNN) – On the eve of his foreign policy speech at The Citadel in South Carolina, former Massachusetts Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced selections for his foreign policy and national security team….

….Romney’s 22-member team of special advisers also includes former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman and former Missouri Sen. Jim Talent….

[emphasis added]

Top notch? More like retreads.

This must mean that you don’t have to show up for meetings.

And in 2010…

12 Monday Sep 2011

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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bumper stickers, CNN, debate, missouri, Teabaggers, WWJD

Spotted on a vehicle in west central Missouri.

…do you think teabaggers would have voted for him?

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): by "all" I really mean "some"

22 Friday Jul 2011

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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4th Congressional District, CNN, Debt ceiling, missouri, poll, Vicky Hartzler

Representative Vicky Hartzler via Twitter yesterday:

@DoDBuzz dodbuzz by RepHartzler

House lawmakers appeal to Obama to stop defense cuts – bit.ly/rfJl7a 21 Jul

And today:

@RepHartzler Rep. Vicky Hartzler

Are voting on Legislative branch approps bill. Am voting to reduce our office budget by 7%. We all must do w/ less to balance our budget! 5 hours ago

[emphasis added]

Cognitive dissonance in everything.

It gets even better. A few minutes ago:

@RepHartzler Rep. Vicky Hartzler

New CNN poll shows 66% of Americans support passage of Cut, Cap, & Balance yet today the Senate tabled it! Unbelievable! Call them! 10 minutes ago

Really?:

CNN/ORC [pdf]

Interviews with 1,009 adult Americans conducted by telephone by ORC International on July 18-20, 2011. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or

minus 3 percentage points.

The sample includes 856 interviews among landline respondents and 153 interviews among cell phone respondents.

14. In those discussions, several budget plans have been proposed that would reduce the amount the government owes by trillions of dollars over the next ten years. If you had to choose, would you rather see Congress and President Obama agree to a budget plan that only includes cuts in government spending, or a budget plan that includes a combination of spending cuts and tax

increases on higher-income Americans and some businesses?

Only spending cuts 34%

Spending cuts and tax increases 64%

Other (vol.) 1%

No opinion 1%

18. Based on what you have read or heard about the discussions between Congress and Barack Obama on the debt ceiling, do you think Obama has or has not acted responsibly?

Yes, has acted responsibly 52%

No, has not 46%

No opinion 2%

19. Based on what you have read or heard about the discussions between Congress and Barack Obama on the debt ceiling, do you think the Republicans in Congress have or have not acted responsibly?

Yes, have acted responsibly 33%

No, have not 63%

No opinion 3%

[emphasis added]

That ain’t exactly a vote of confidence in Vicky Hartzler’s position, eh?

Then, on the proposals:

21. In some proposals, Congress would raise the debt ceiling while cutting between two trillion and four trillion dollars in government spending over the next ten years and raising taxes on some businesses and higher-income Americans. Would you favor or oppose this proposal?

Favor 66%

Oppose 34%

No opinion 1%

23. In another proposal, Congress would raise the debt ceiling only if a balanced budget amendment

were passed by both houses of Congress and substantial spending cuts and caps on future spending were approved. Would you favor or oppose this proposal?

Favor 66%

Oppose 33%

No opinion 1%

[emphasis added]

The devil is in the details on the second one. Some of the details which won’t make the republican gimmick proposal work:

24. Now I’m going to read you some of the specific proposals for cutting government spending and increasing taxes that have been suggested as part of the discussions on the debt ceiling. For each one, please tell me whether you favor or oppose that proposal as a way to reduce the amount that the government owes.

Cutting federal subsidies to farmers

Favor 31% Oppose 66% No opinion 2%

Cutting pensions and benefits for retired government workers

Favor 30% Oppose 68% No opinion 2%

Cutting defense spending

Favor 47% Oppose 52% No opinion 1%

Cutting the amount the government spends on Medicaid, the federal health program for the poor

Favor 22% Oppose 77%

Cutting the amount the government spends on Medicare, the federal health program for the elderly

Favor 12% Oppose 87% No opinion 1%

Cutting the amount the government spends on Social Security

Favor 16% Oppose 84% No opinion 1%

Increasing the taxes paid by oil and gas companies by ending federal subsidies for those businesses

Favor 73% Oppose 26% No opinion 1%

Increasing the taxes paid by businesses that own private jets

Favor 76% Oppose 23%

Increasing the taxes paid by people who make more than 250 thousand dollars a year

Favor 73% Oppose26%

Those polled want all of the things the republican obstructionists in Congress don’t.

Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) evidently didn’t read the fine print.

Rick Sanchez can probably find a home at the Faux News Channel…

02 Saturday Oct 2010

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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CNN’s Rick Sanchez fired after explosive interview on satellite radio

By Lisa de Moraes

Saturday, October 2, 2010

CNN fired Rick Sanchez on Friday afternoon in response to a radio interview on a SiriusXM radio show during which Sanchez called Comedy Central late-night host Jon Stewart a “bigot” and implied that the media as a whole are controlled by Jews…

…as a useful idiot:

….Rick Sanchez:…how can you get a volcano in Iceland? Isn’t it too, too, when you, when you think of a volcano you think of like Hawaii and long words like that. You don’t think of Iceland. You think it’s too cold to have a volcano there…

(via Wonkette)

A commenter at Wonkette:

At least CNN hasn’t lost a journalist.

He should fit right in.

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