{"id":29769,"date":"2015-09-29T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T21:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29769"},"modified":"2015-09-29T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T22:01:39","slug":"liberal-media-my-ass-hillary-clintons-alleged-polling-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29769","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Media My Ass: Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Alleged Polling Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest round of polling has hit the press with curiously coordinated reactions. Nearly every mainstream news outlet chose to spin the results as negative for Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Dem\/hillary-wtf.jpg\" alt=\"Hillary Clinton\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29609\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1181585551856238\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-btn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be sure, Clinton&#8217;s favorability has suffered in the past few weeks due to relentless bashing by more than a dozen Republican presidential hopefuls and an unending stream of baseless but damaging stories about her email. However, the uniformity of the media presentation is hardly representative of the reality. Here is how the press is covering the news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Washington Times:<\/strong> Hillary Clinton\u2019s unfavorable rating approaches record territory<\/li>\n<li><strong>ABC News:<\/strong> Clinton Goes Under Water<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breitbart News:<\/strong> Gallup: Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Favorability at All-Time Low<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wall Street Journal:<\/strong> Hillary Clinton Hits Lows on Favorability, Trustworthiness<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reuters:<\/strong> Clinton&#8217;s favorability ratings lowest since 2001<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hill:<\/strong> Poll: Clinton&#8217;s favorability tumbles<\/li>\n<li><strong>NBC News:<\/strong> Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Popularity Drops Sharply in NBC\/WSJ Poll<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fox News:<\/strong> Fox News Poll: Clinton popularity drops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While there is nothing wrong with reporting the facts in polling, it is misleading if the reporters don&#8217;t put the numbers into context. And an examination of the poll results paints a very different picture of the campaign. Just using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/interactive\/2015\/09\/25\/fox-news-poll-clinton-and-carson-favorability-ratings\/\" target=\"_blank\">the most recent Fox News poll<\/a> as an example, Clinton&#8217;s <em>&#8220;low&#8221;<\/em> favorability rating is still higher than every Republican in the poll except for one (Ben Carson). It is not a trivial side issue to note that Clinton scores better than the GOP front-runner, Donald Trump, and trounces him in a head-to-head match-up. But that is not considered newsworthy by the so-called <em>&#8220;liberal&#8221;<\/em> media.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the press didn&#8217;t think it was important to report that every Republican&#8217;s unfavorables are at their all-time highs. Why is it news that Clinton&#8217;s favorabilty is suffering, but it isn&#8217;t news that all of her potential rivals are suffering as badly or worse? This is something the media has been doing for years with President Obama. They leap at every opportunity to report any drop in his popularity (which currently stands at about 47%) and how it will hamper the success of his agenda with Congress. What they leave out is that Congress has a favorability in the mid-teens, which should give the President a significant advantage.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Every single one of the headlines above could just as easily have read <em>&#8220;Clinton And All Republicans Favorability At Or Near All-Time Lows,&#8221;<\/em> but that would have meant engaging in honest journalism rather than deliberately misleading horse-race tabloidism. So the next time you see a spate of negative headlines hammering Clinton, remember that there is almost certainly more to the story than the media is telling you. And what they are usually leaving out is that, no matter how much people dislike Clinton, that hate Republicans even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest round of polling has hit the press with curiously coordinated reactions. Nearly every mainstream news outlet chose to spin the results as negative for Hillary Clinton. To be sure, Clinton&#8217;s favorability has suffered in the past few weeks due to relentless bashing by more than a dozen Republican presidential hopefuls and an unending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Liberal Media My Ass: Hillary Clinton's Alleged Polling Woes","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,684],"tags":[31,430,301],"class_list":["post-29769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-media-bias","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-polls","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/hillary-wtf.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-7K9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29484,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29484","url_meta":{"origin":29769,"position":0},"title":"Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Fox News Problem","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/21\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This evening on Fox News Shannon Bream, filling in for Megyn Kelly, did a segment about how dismal Hillary Clinton's future is now that her poll numbers have descended to unfathomable depths, particularly with regard to favorability. 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