{"id":8088,"date":"2012-09-25T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T22:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8088"},"modified":"2012-09-25T15:37:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T22:37:40","slug":"fox-nation-admonishes-their-faithful-dont-believe-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8088","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation Admonishes Their Faithful: Don’t Believe The Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Mitt Romney sinks further into an abyss of electoral sludge<\/a>, his Pharisees at Fox News dispense divine guidance to their disciples. The word from on high at Fox Nation is: “Don’t Believe the Polls.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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It is true that most of the recent polls<\/a> show President Obama widening his lead over Romney. Even the polls from Fox News report Obama ahead by significant margins. That news is triggering a severe case of paranoia resulting in a defensive overreaction on the part of Romney’s PR team (aka Fox News).<\/p>\n

So Fox found an article on The Hill<\/a> and linked to it with a headline of their own making. The actual source was nothing more than a report on the comments by Romney’s pollster Neil Newhouse, who just happened to disagree with all the polls showing Romney behind. But Fox, in their headline, failed to attribute that opinion to a Romney operative. Newhouse, it should be noted, is the adviser who declared<\/a> that “We\u2019re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.”<\/em> To his credit, the campaign has kept that promise.<\/p>\n

This admonition to cast out the demon polls is typical of the behavior of a cult where the first sacred lesson is to accept that anything told you by anyone outside the order is a lie. Therefore, all the pollsters are agents of the unholy and must be shunned. Never mind that all of these same pollsters were once embraced by the Foxists as prophets:<\/p>\n

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  • Rasmussen Poll: Romney 50%, Obama 42%<\/li>\n
  • Poll: Romney Beating Obama Among Women Voters<\/li>\n
  • Poll: Romney Up Double Digits With Swing State Independents<\/li>\n
  • NBC-WSJ poll: On economy, Romney Opens Up Lead Over Obama<\/li>\n
  • Rasmussen Poll: Romney 48%, Obama 44%<\/li>\n
  • Fox News Poll: Romney Edges Obama as Approval of President Drops<\/li>\n
  • Two National Polls Show Favor For Romney<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    You have to wonder what calamity befell these pollsters since their prior celebration by those at Fox. It must be that the mortal sin of reporting the results of surveys that show the Kenyan, socialist, anti-Christ defeating the Magic Underwear, White Horse Savior, is sacrilege to the Fox Nationalists and must not be tolerated at the risk of sacrificing your soul. So put the evil polls aside, children, and glory in the Truthiness of Fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As Mitt Romney sinks further into an abyss of electoral sludge, his Pharisees at Fox News dispense divine guidance to their disciples. The word from on high at Fox Nation is: “Don’t Believe the Polls.” It is true that most of the recent polls show President Obama widening his lead over Romney. Even the polls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1,684],"tags":[527,260],"class_list":["post-8088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-media-bias","tag-fox-nation","tag-mitt-romney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-26s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7113,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7113","url_meta":{"origin":8088,"position":0},"title":"Obama Surging Ahead Of Romney In Fox News Poll That Fox News Ignores","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/17\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"For additional evidence that Fox News is the PR agency for the Republican Party, note the feverishly excited treatment that Fox News gives to polling when the results favor Mitt Romney: In the past two months Fox Nation has posted at least seven articles on election polling and every single\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Election"","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7751,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7751","url_meta":{"origin":8088,"position":1},"title":"Fox Nation Ignores Polls By CNN, Reuters, And — Fox News","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/9\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It must be hard being the PR agency for the Romney campaign (aka Fox News) when the real world is constantly interfering with your efforts to distort reality. 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