You aren't kidding !!!
Posted on 12/01/2008 2:32:22 AM PST by Cindy
INTERVIEW SNIPPET: "Frontpage Interview’s guest today is John Ziegler, a former talk show host who is the director of the documentary Blocking 'The Path to 9/11’. He is now working on a new project, HowObamaGotElected.
FP: John Ziegler, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Ziegler: Thanks. It has been a weird and rather rough time.
FP: Why has it been weird and rough?
Ziegler: Well, when I released the Zogby poll of Obama voters I never anticipated the level of outright hatred and irrationality that would be unleashed on me. I spent most of that week deleting nasty e-mail from my inbox just so I could keep receiving e-mail.
FP: I’d like to talk to you about that poll today.
Let’s start with your forthcoming documentary on the media coverage of the election "Media Malpractice...How Obama Got Elected." You’ve also produced a video of Obama voters on election day being asked simple questions about the election. What’s it all about?
Ziegler: This is a film that I knew several months ago just HAD to get made and that I was the right person and maybe the only person who would and could do it correctly. It will tell the story of how the news media went to unprecedented lengths to help the Obama campaign from the start of the primary season right to the election. As part of that project I interviewed twelve Obama voters on election day and tried to understand how that distorted media coverage impacted what they knew, or thought that they knew about the campaign.
What I found was so incredibly astonishing that I decided to make a web video of the responses and commission a scientific nationwide Zogby poll of Obama voters to see if these results were representative of a broader reality and we found that they absolutely were.
We put the video and polling information at www.HowObamaGotElected.com and it has been a smash hit on the internet with the video getting well over one million views in less than a week."
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Reporters give news a bad name.
Yes and thank you Vaduz.
You do have a way with words.
There actually are several ways to look at it, and they aren’t mutually exclusive when you stop to ponder them:
1- better “branding.” Obama was marketed like a soft drink.
2- more money. I’ve seen sources claiming he raised nearly a billion dollars. While Cap’n Queeg hobbled himself. ( My moratorium on calling the little SOB that is suspended for the duration, or we turn into Venezuela- whichever comes first ... )
3- Ophra-ized voters. Yes, we have become American Idol and Survivor! as a nation. With the worst features of both shows. Yes, the TV and the schools are responsible— but we let it happen, didn’t we?
The Dems should be rebranded. “If you’re Stupid, vote Dem” etc.
Thank you backhoe and nodding my head in agreement except for 1 itty bitty part of your post, “...but we let it happen, didn’t we?”
I did not let that happen.
Political correctness and willful ignorance DID allow that to happen.
You should also remind your friend of the Marxist tenet regarding ‘useless eaters’ which means that under a totalitarian system, those who do not contribute significantly to society are purged from society.
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That’s part of it, for sure.
I disagree, they did educated the voter. They used the typical liberal tactics; biased reporting, intimidation of critics, using misleading or even blatantly false talking points over and over. Yep they educated the voter alright!
DemonRAT voters are stupid? Who knew?
Naturally, I didn't mean you, I, and the others here- I meant "us" collectively, as a country.
Around here, the school boards drive taxes, and everything else- it's "all for the children," and I've fought them for decades.
But, if you oppose any of their grandiose schemes, "You hate my Kids! And I Hate You!"
DamifIknow what you can accomplish in the face of that.
Bump for later read.
I hear you.
You aren't kidding !!!
Thanks- I’ll save that.
You’re blaming your televisions? Why can’t we just accept the fact that we don’t live in a very well informed or productive society. We didn’t need to elect a President, we needed a social worker, which is basically what we got. To be honest, I felt more helpless as a military officer deployed to the desert when Clinton was elected...but I voted with my feet and resigned. If you live in a blue state, you can decide to continue subsidizing the welfare state, or you can stand up for what you believe in and move. If you are a business owner-go global, downsize, better yet hire a veteran who agrees with you. If you can find solace in blaming television than you are MUCH better off than a lot of us.
THAT'A how the ‘Mr. “I Hate America” Candidate’ became President-elect.
DOn’t forget, the Obama campaign won Advertising Week’s “Ad Campaign of the Year” prize, the first time it was ever won by a political campaign.
I read an interview with David Axelrod, his campaign manager, who said that they did focus groups during the primaries and tested the results in a couple of counties. When they tried to present Obama on the basis of ideas, that is, a rational approach, he lost; when they presented him on the basis of slogans and images, that is, an emotional approach, he won. Hillary was out there thinking it was a contest between ideas, while he was being sold by a very different type of campaign.
The same applied during the general campaign. We may have snickered at the faux Presidential seal and the Greek columns and the dreamy photos of The One, but the Oprah crowd luved it.
I've been championing this idea since I joined Free Republic.
We absolutely **must** work to get our kids out of government schools, offer free conservative alternatives to all the children in America, and shut every Marxist government indoctrination camp down.
The Alinsky types had this figured out decades ago. Go for the children. If the hearts and minds of the children are won then Marxist dominated elections will follow.
.......The NEA and the govt. school monopoly must be broken before conservatives can ever prosper again......
Fear this. Last week, the teachers union announced it would attempt to organize the teachers in the local nationally rated but non union school system.
The dead body is still warm. The assault is on
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