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Damage control: Fox News stresses that CPAC straw poll is "way early" and "unscientific"

February 20, 2010 7:34 pm ET

From Fox News' February 20 post-CPAC coverage:

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    • Author by Bad News (February 20, 2010 7:48 pm ET)
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      Ron Paul? Well Choke on that Fox News.

      Ron Paul is a good guy.

      "How Does It Feel"


      Mr. News
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      • Author by Bad News (February 20, 2010 7:58 pm ET)
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        "Ron Paul's simply the best"
        "better than all the rest"
        "better than anyone"
        "anyone i've ever met"
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    • Author by mjh (February 20, 2010 7:53 pm ET)
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      Damage control: Fox News stresses that CPAC straw poll is "way early" and "unscientific"



      TRANSLATION: It will thus be repeated endlessly.

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      • Author by Les Philling (February 20, 2010 8:48 pm ET)
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        It will thus be repeated endlessly.

        ...or until they get the right result.
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    • Author by Steve P (February 20, 2010 7:55 pm ET)
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      I actually admire and like what Ron Paul brings to the table. He knows his stuff and like President obama he speaks a way you can understand him without using Politic language.

      I bet Fox news would have been singing a different tune if Palin or Romney won the straw poll...Only Fox news can distort its news the way they want it to be distorted.....

      P.S Hannity is have a cow right about now with Ron Paul winning!!!
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      • Author by Dradeeus (February 21, 2010 4:10 am ET)
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        I like Ron Paul in that he's one Republican I don't mind, regardless if I disagree with him, and I do.

        I used to be an avid supporter of his, but his extreme contradictions of fixing massive flaws with out of control corporatism while simultaneously full keeping government out of private business makes me wonder what he actually would DO if he became president.
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        • Author by iamvoodoo (February 21, 2010 2:59 pm ET)
             
          How is that a contradiction? Government partnership with private corporations is corporatism.

          Keeping the government out of private business will end corporatism.
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      • Author by ABBA|Proudly teaBAGGING Liberals (February 21, 2010 9:48 am ET)
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        ABBA - Anyone But Barry Again !!!
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          • Author by watershed (February 21, 2010 4:07 pm ET)
               
            Bintx, it's not that they won't come back if they are ignored- it's that their posts won't derail threads if people simply ignore them. Responding (again and again) just distracts from any real conversation and gets the posters into silly screaming matches. Which is of course, pointless.

            That's what "don't feed the troll" means.
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        • Author by MidnightWriter (February 21, 2010 1:14 pm ET)
             
          Oh, isn't ABBA here a bright one? I getting the feeling he's celebrating the fact that Obama's name didn't come up on this CPAC straw poll.

          Nevertheless, thanks for stopping by. We've had some people on here give us a hard time for using the term, "Teabagger(s)." You've just given us all the justification we need to continue using it.
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        • Author by dirtylittlereligion (February 21, 2010 3:39 pm ET)
             
          I have a feeling you wouldn't be too happy if Ron Paul won the nomination. In social issues he often takes a stand more to the left of the current administration, actually on just about everything except abortion. And the wars? Don't get me started...how upset would you be when you can't flog yourself over "evul musslins" getting waterboarded, or flap your flag wildly in the air and cheer as the disadvantaged youth in this country drop bombs on their villages?

          The rest of my post is a discussion with all the non-wingnuts here.
          I do wish Obama would take a clue from Ron Paul in regards to some of the social issues. And I would vote for Paul if he could only explain how the working class are going to be protected from corporatism and corporate greed. I like that he doesn't stuff his coffers with corporate money, but maybe the corporations figure they don't need to buy him if his worldview is already that Utopian.

          It's just too optimistic and dangerous to think that they will police themselves. It's been proven, in pretty recent history actually, that if it will increase their profits, and put more money in their and their fellow shareholder's pockets, they will ship jobs overseas to what equates to slave labor, lower safety standards, cut sanitation guidelines thus creating tainted food and other products, not pay a decent wage so that a family needs more people working to live...and then guess what? Yep. Children in the workplace.

          And hell, with Beck leading the conservatives in their blind hatred of labor unions...doing his damnedest to "break their kneecaps", what options would workers have to voice their disgruntlement or - Jeebus forbid - try to better their lot in life?
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        • Author by whatIthink (February 21, 2010 5:39 pm ET)
             
          Why's he talking about Barry Bonds? Of course no one wants Barry Bonds again. He tainted all of MLB with his steroids use.

          Now if you're talking about Barry Goldwater, dude, get over it, he died back in 90's.

          Barry Manilow, I can understand not wanting him back.

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    • Author by skycatcher (February 20, 2010 8:00 pm ET)
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      How dare they not place Fox's duly appointed commentator at the top???!!! Have these people no shame?!
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    • Author by dhyanaparamita (February 20, 2010 8:32 pm ET)
         
      I'm not really sure why this is worth a clip. It *is* way early and unscientific, and there's no reason to suspect they wouldn't have said so if Romney or Palin had won; seems just like a kneejerk reaction from MM.
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    • Author by mcnairbo6573 (February 20, 2010 9:37 pm ET)
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      Of course if Sarah Palin had won the coronation would have already begun over at Fox.
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    • Author by MeanMrSpicyMustard (February 20, 2010 9:38 pm ET)
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      Granted, this is typical Fox hooplah, but really, guys... the poll is way early and it is unscientific. This time the last election cycle we were all convinced the race would be Clinton vs. Giuliani.
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      • Author by phredicles (February 20, 2010 9:43 pm ET)
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        Yeah, but but these are supposed to be Miss Sarah P.'s people and she only gets 7%? That's gotta hurt.
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        • Author by MeanMrSpicyMustard (February 20, 2010 9:51 pm ET)
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          Oh, absolutely, it's got to sting that the primary speakers on the last day were wingnut Beck, wingnut Coulter, wingnut Gingrich, and wingnut Breitbart... and then the straw poll winner was fairly-reasonable-guy-with-some-wacky-ideas Paul. But it won't mean anything in the long-term anyway. Paul's not going to run, and no one else in the GOP leadership is breaking party lines as a sensible moderate anyway, so it's all not going to mean anything in 2012 anyway.
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              • Author by eweston8542983 (February 21, 2010 3:07 pm ET)
                   
                Well that sounds real "family values" neocon to me.
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                • Author by dirtylittlereligion (February 21, 2010 3:53 pm ET)
                     
                  As I said...talk about your closeted wingnuts...

                  Please ABBA...it's BOTH hands on the keyboard...and FYI, that stuff is pretty hard to scrub off your monitor.

                  I'm sorry, did I go too far?
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                • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (February 21, 2010 4:36 pm ET)
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                  Looks like Dancing Queen got rid of the "hummer" part of his screen name and is focusing on his other fetish. I don't like to judge others' "interests", but his flirting is getting pretty creepy.
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    • Author by Russ139 (February 20, 2010 10:56 pm ET)
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      The only thing better for Progressives than a Palin candidacy, is a Ron Paul candidacy. Paul, and honest and honorable man (it would seem), cannot tell a lie. His Libertarian views come out with every question - and he doesn't duck questions.

      No troops overseas... isolationism... no income tax... No Federal Reserve Board... No Dept of Education....

      These are not the positions of a future President.
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      • Author by Panic Man (February 20, 2010 11:30 pm ET)
           
        He's definitely a progressive's dream - since it means that he wouldn't get votes from either side but for the brainwashed idiots who look at two or three parts of his platform and declare him the new messiah.

        Personally, I can hope for this to come about - Paul for the GOP, Palin for the Tea Klux Klan, and a sweeping victory for progressives and liberals for the forseeable future.

        (Oh, by the way, if he doesn't duck questions, why hasn't he 'fessed up about his associations with racist groups? Just wondering.)
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      • Author by Porkeater (February 21, 2010 12:50 am ET)
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        Yes, but he would virtually guarantee Obama a second term.

        And if they keep pandering, Fox will ensure Paul's candidacy.

        We've created a monnnnnsteeerrrr!
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      • Author by leftofwhat (February 21, 2010 1:08 am ET)
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        I know it's irrelevant but Paul is just another old white man living an illusion of the past.Moderate is just a term used when one doesn't want to speak what is on ones mind.This country needs serious change to keep up with an ever increasing population and the increasing repression of our rights.To me,to think Paul makes sense,is like believing in the Easter bunny.Peace,love and Woodstock.
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    • Author by dmhack (February 21, 2010 2:28 am ET)
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      The poll is about as scientific as the Fox talking heads claiming snow in Washington disproves Climate Change.

      Bottom line--when it comes to things unscientific, Fox is the place to be.
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        • Author by MeanMrSpicyMustard (February 21, 2010 11:21 am ET)
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          He, um...

          ...he didn't say he was an MSNBC fan.
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          • Author by bintx (February 21, 2010 12:57 pm ET)
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            It's this thing folks like Dancing Queen have . . . if you don't like Fox, you are automatically an MSNBC watcher. He/she doesn't seem to realize that most people in this country aren't watching ANY of the cable opinion networks.
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            • Author by leftofwhat (February 21, 2010 1:12 pm ET)
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              Watching actual journalistic television would require a translator for DQ.
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          • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (February 21, 2010 9:24 pm ET)
               
            Dancing Queen seems to have adopted that prison-style rationalization of his orientation. You know, if you're on top, you're still straight.

            Although he seems to go both ways, as he's constantly mentioning that he's been on both ends of the teabagging, and for some reason thinks non-teabaggers are interested in his preference.
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    • Author by mpred (February 21, 2010 7:59 am ET)
         
      Fox News must have vomited after hearing this, one of their good ole boys, and Ms Palin weren't at the top.

      Now they will attack Ron Paul
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    • Author by mpred (February 21, 2010 8:02 am ET)
         
      Well it's just like Fox News unscientific, propaganda, only entertainment, They leave the real news to professionals at the other networks.
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    • Author by alienofwar (February 21, 2010 12:09 pm ET)
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      Ron Paul makes Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh look like Marxist's. These three bozo's support feeding the bloated military industrial complex with taxpayer dollars and running deficits (Bush era), expanding Medicare as a giveaway to Prescription drug manufacturers and subsidizing oil, coal and all the other dirty polluting industries. They don't mind spending billions to rebuild Iraq, but when it comes to rebuilding America? Hell no. I respect Ron Paul for his integrity, principles and passion. I may disagree with him, but at least he's not a hypocrite like Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh and all the rest of those Republican goof balls.
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      • Author by roland (February 21, 2010 2:12 pm ET)
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        Soon they'll be accusing ACORN of having had a hand in the final tally.
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        • Author by eweston8542983 (February 21, 2010 3:15 pm ET)
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          Apparently only about 1/4th of the attendees bothered to vote. I'd like to think they'd work harder to bring out the vote. Its not like they have to worry about troubles getting a ballot or casting it?
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    • Author by 4teepee (February 21, 2010 2:59 pm ET)
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      There is a battle among conservatives between the libertarian wing and the chickenhawk wing.
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      • Author by dogbreath (February 21, 2010 5:27 pm ET)
           
        It is fun to watch, isn't it. :) In the end, they will probably line up like the good little lemmings they are and jump off the cliff together . . . We'll have to wait and see.
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    • Author by hannibal (February 21, 2010 7:01 pm ET)
         
      Just a word to the wise, be wary re Ron Paul. He may seem not as emotionally loaded in his regular discourse, but he is a pretty extreme anti-government/anti-New Deal politician, with documented positions saying that the Constitution doesn't support a separation of church and state, and reportedly associations with other fringe radical right groups with history of bigotry/racism. The New Republic did an expose of him in 2008, and there's obviously been more on his positions since then.
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    • Author by ProgressiveCDN (February 22, 2010 10:36 am ET)
         
      I do hope Obama wins his second term, but if there was anyone who could honestly take on Obama through True politics and blatant ideological differences it would be Ron Paul .... Think about it, first we elect a liberal populist then we'd elect a conservative populist --- Two sides of the same revolutionary coin IMO

      That being said, Ron Paul kinda scares me because of his lack of any foreign policy direction apart from being anti-interventionist... But it would be HILARIOUS for him to even win the Republican primary and see how FAUX would react.. I think they would not back anyone and instead call for an all-out revolt by their goose-stepping rednec sheeple
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    • Author by jimmyray (February 23, 2010 3:17 am ET)
         
      Of course, way too early, unscientific..and mushrooms are not coming in like they should...because the spores have died...You can't hide folks...the game is up...the American people have something you don't, a backbone, it's called The Constitution.

      By the way, I will guarantee that if you embrace this concept now...you will reap millions...those who don't are screwed! Please wish the NEO con spin doctors and their cronies a fine day...it will be short. The game is up!!! Finally!!!
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