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So all the news outlets across the nation are abuzz about the sudden surge of Obama\u2019s poll numbers<\/a> since the killing of Bin Laden.\u00a0 Looks like now folks think he can do it all, hunt down terrorists, protect our country, fix our economy.\u00a0 Why, the list is endless.\u00a0 No doubt 60% surveyed will expect the walking on water any moment!<\/p>\n

But wait.\u00a0 Not so fast.\u00a0 Turns out the AP (that stands for Associated ~~Propaganda<\/strike> Press), has fudged the numbers a bit.\u00a0 You see, under my firm belief that~~ one of the biggest wastes of human history<\/a> is the professional study, survey, or poll, the AP has decided to give Democrats a disproportionate amount of say, 17 points higher that is.\u00a0 That means they asked a larger number of democrats than they should, a number that far exceeds the national percentage of Democrats.<\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0 Because, as I\u2019ve said before, Journalism is dead, long live Propaganda.\u00a0 We\u2019ve always prided ourselves on looking down our noses at those journalists of old who cooked up wars, elevated preachers, and told Rosie the Riveter to go home when the war was over.\u00a0 But turns out, things haven\u2019t changed.\u00a0 If they never were that bad then, they are that bad now. The AP is all about promoting a socialist, secular, culturally and politically liberal agenda.\u00a0 Obama is their best hope. So realizing that a floundering economy, several missteps over the last year or so, an apathetic base, an outraged opposition, and diving poll numbers all meant the possibility of a one term president, the AP got to work. <\/p>\n

They lied.\u00a0 They fixed the race, hedged the bet, stacked the numbers to make the poll say what they wanted.\u00a0 Then they went to work, along with the rest of the media, to \u2018interpret\u2019 this for the masses.\u00a0 Clearly, we are being told, this shows that the American public is falling in love again, Obama\u2019s great, gives us chocolate cake, 2012 is in the bag, it\u2019s time we all promise to serve the One.\u00a0 Sickening.\u00a0 Again, we are reminded that after 5000 years, humans have learned very little.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that we fall for propaganda, for certainly the Internet Age makes such information readily available.\u00a0 But we love it.\u00a0 Just like humans always have.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"