Comments on: SOMETHING MISSING THIS WAY COMES

By: RonB

RonB — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:52:22 +0000

I get the feeling that the Zarqawi story is a bit over the heads of the general pop. I’m enlisted and I haven’t heard a peep from my battalion about it. I’m support, but still, it tells me that people are just trying to ignore some things going on in Iraq. It’s either Iraq is something they don’t want to talk about, or Zarqawi’s death is something that they don’t grasp the significance of.

Rick, I’m a defector from the conservative movement but I must tell you that your site is by and large improperly named and now in the category of irony as I find you one of the more level headed conservative bloggers out there.

By: Svenghouli

Svenghouli — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 06:35:14 +0000

Not even Fox News issued a poll.

By: Tano

Tano — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:28:08 +0000

Actually, I am glad there is not a spate of “instant polling”. I think those things are ridiculous. All they manage to do is to capture the buzz of the moment when only the first, surface level impression of an event are current. Good news might spike up the administrations numbers, bad news might spike them down. What do we learn from that that we couldn’t have predicted? The relevant question is how the information is assimilated into people’s minds, and what, if any, are the longer term consequences for how they feel about the administration’s performance.

We see this all the time with things like major speeches (SOTU the obvious example). The president’s side (no matter which president) will trumpet an instant poll which inevitably shows some uptick, and use that as an anchor point for an ongoing spin campaign.

We all have seen this often enough to see through it all, haven’t we?

BTW, as pointed out above, Rasmussen does a daily tracking poll with a very pro-Bush sampling strategy, and they have found no movement whatsoever over the two days since the capture.

So maybe the leftie spinners can complain that the big bad MSM is suppressing the “news” that Bush remains historically unpopular despite the capture!

By: Bloghop

Bloghop — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 15:23:42 +0000

It was an arranged assassination. They are trying to fugure out if MSM, the ‘KOS crowd’ were informing, or which country informed and why.

By: Scrapiron

Scrapiron — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:52:45 +0000

Now we know for sure. After the phony and impossible story of the ’soldiers’ beating a dead horse (Zarqawi) will the dense still believe anything that has the ‘AP’ label on it? I haven’t believed anything from the AP or Reuter’s for months and they prove me right on a daily basis. There really is more truth in a Super Market Tabloid than in any of the antique MSM outlets.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 06:36:22 +0000

Interesting observation. Frankly though, I’m more interested in Iraqi polls, especially with regard to the Sunni population.

By: Scrapiron

Scrapiron — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:11:48 +0000

Now we have the nutcakes on the left ‘banning’ Ann Coulter’s book in New Jersey. When was that last time we had a mass book burning/banning and who was in charge. Think Germany in the 30s. Ann is 100% correct about the Jersey Girls, they turned grief into greed within 30 day of 9-11. Whatever they have said or done since then is stricly for the camera exposure and money. Ain’t no grief in those broads.

By: Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Our Victory Against Al-Qaeda

Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Our Victory Against Al-Qaeda — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:56:49 +0000

[...] Rick Moran finds more proof that the MSM is complicit in the Bush bashing: Usually, within 24 hours of a major event, we have at least a half dozen “flash polls” that gives us a snapshot of the American people’s attitudes toward that particular story. And, if the story is bad news for the President, we usually get the headline “Bush Approval Drops to Lowest Level in the History of Human Civilization” or some other eye catching drivel. [...]

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:53:58 +0000

Looking at the Rasmussen poll, bouncing Zarq didn’t bounce Bush’s numbers.

That might be a function of the near ubiquitous “it won’t mean a thing” reporting from the media on the issue. But what might matter is once the followup raids are done and we are able to see just how much other stuff was gained, we might get a bounce later.

Although the bombings continue in Baghdad, one has to expect that some number of them were already approved and “in the pipeline” when we zapped Zarq. Give a week for those operations to work their way through the pipeline and for some indication of what the additional raids (56 raids so far is the number I heard last) have netted to come in.

Also, while bombings do continue, it seems the casualty rate has decreased. Through the past month and a half or so, Iraq was running at near 30 civilians a day average death rate. We seem to be running below that since “the event”.

By: Scrapiron

Scrapiron — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:33:46 +0000

The antique MSM can’t poll this one. They’re too busy trying to find someone else to surrender to. Their white flags are getting dusty. Great job by all the guys and girls in Iraq, now find every sucker that stands up as a replacement and send him to join the rest of the goat ropers. I understand Zarqawi had met his 72 virgins they were turned in the pen with him strapped buck naked face down over a log. Who said 72 billy goats wouldn’t know what to do. They fought, but finally took turns on each end.