Whenever Republicans jump well over the line like they did with Schiavo I love to watch Fox News try to contain the damage. Last night was particularly funny.
Fake Host Guy: But what about these polls that say that 80% of Americans believe that Congress acted overstepped it's bounds?Neo-Con Guest: Well, I think they asked the wrong questions. I think if you were to phrase it differently, say something like this; "Do you think that Congress didn't overstepped their bounds?" Which is not only a fairer question, but also more grammatically appropriate. Then apply the same numbers as the results from the original question a shocking thing happens. It turns out the America agrees with President Bush and the Congress and feels that they acted appropriately to...
Unfortunately it's not just Fox News. CNN loves milking the divide as well. Recently they showed a graph that shows a huge split between Republicans and Democrats on Schiavo. I don't remember what the question was, but the result was Democrats 58% and Republicans 52%. But the graph they showed this on had the axis values between 50 and 60, so there was a tremendous gap visually. Of course, when you looked at it on a graph with reasonable axis values, oh, say, like 0 and 100, there was scant difference at all.
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