WOW! FREEPERS LOOK AT THIS! (FR MAKIN' NEWS!)

sfgate.com ^ | Monday, January 27, 2003

[American Preservative]

Did 90 percent of Americans in 2000 really want Gore to concede? Or was the widely reported Fox News poll 'freeped?' A look at the opinion-skewing fad that seems to be giving conservatives the last laugh.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Delusional left. A few weeks back they were claiming poll results couldn't be trusted because more Republicans than Dems. voted in internet polls.

That explains, of course, why the CNN poll yesterday asking whether voters trusted the President or the UN more showed 2/3rds of the voters trusted the UN (which proves the failure of the mainstream news media to inform the people, as well as debunks the liars on the left re. "Freeping" polls).

A Gannett reporter was ready to attack Freepers during the Florida 2002 election - claimed we were skewing poll results (she was responding in a huff to a DU whine). I slammed back a list of over 50 Dem. websites promoting campaigns to e-mail polls, including many of the major leftist special interest groups. Clymers. The VLWC has been skewing polls, news and elections for decades. FR is national self-defense.

Incidentally, a SFGate journalist blasted me a few days ago when I suggested that their weekend poll question showed a lack of understanding. How dare we question the left. Have you noticed that following the Nov. elections the left has had, as Peter Jennings would say, a collective "temper tantrum"?

[Rockiesrider]

I like many of us started "freepin" the online polls several years ago. I still do it when ever I see one. How scientific do the news people think these things are? News agencies stopped reporting the news a long ago and started manufacturing it. Serves them right, that we should adjust the numbers for them.

[RnMomof7]

Ya gotta love it..please post it on Thursday

[Lando Lincoln]

Re: FR Article - ping me? Thanks

[unspun]

The difference could be that polls are FReeped by Americans, while anti-American polls on Time Magazine, etc. are invaded and exploited by Internet sweatshops in Iraq and North Korea.

[weegee]

DUmmies DUmp polls.

I've also seen an email (archived in the orignal forum) from one of the 3 "students-mistaken-as-terrorists" where he was encouraging his fellow muslims to see that an MSNBC poll was ISLAMmed. It was a 1999 or 2000 poll of the most influential person/philospher in history, top vote getters included Jesus and Mohommed (Moe won by double digits).

That the left holds any faith in online polls or online petitions means that they think they control the agenda in this world. Few polls prohibit multiple voters from the same account (clean the cookies and vote again).

The DNC sent out an email today (and there are 2 threads that refer to it) encouraging Rats to DUmp on the online media polls when Bush finishes his speech.

[weegee]

The left even does this with the photos on Yahoo News (from AP/Reuters). I watched as the antiBush rallies moved up (counter protest posters, including the one with the FR address, went down), anti-abortion posters went down, Bush and Bush cabinet photos went down.

It's all a publicity game. The media could conduct more reputable polls if they wanted to. They like being able to show those numbers (with no explanation) on tv. Ever see a poll that indicated when it would end?

CNN even showed an "Active" poll on their website that hadn't taken new inputs in months. I sent an email asking if the poll "inputs" should be removed and if it should be clarrified that the data was out of date. Never even got a "thanks for writing".

[E Rocc]

Lots of groups pound on internet polls, some are more effective than others, such as Free Republic, Cleveland Browns fans, and Howard Stern fans. The biggest difference is FR came up with a name for it.

-Eric

[LBGA]

WOW!!! I can't think of a more articulate and eloquent spokesman for FR than you! WTG, Basil.

Please ping me also. :-)

[scouse]

Ah! Were he alive today, Shakespeare himself would be a Freeper. I can imagine Hamlet saying, "To Freep or nor to Freep, that is the question" or Mark Anthony: "Friends, Romans and Freepers".

[Rodney King]

FR used to be filled with little sissy boys who didn't like to FReep polls. Fortunetly we haven't heard from them in a while.