The liberals’ CTV Liberal*Media TV network (count the logos!) and their sacred Globe and Mail (same owner—liberals) worked us over, over the past two days or so, about their ridiculous big liberal push-poll (see here) in which they managed to conclude what they wanted to conclude, which was (among other liberal things) that most Canadians would prefer to let the new gay marriage legislation stand.
Of course there is no new gay marriage law—not yet anyway. Maybe this week—but there isn’t one yet. Nice work liberals!
Of course, Canadians, being trained to be liberals and to let sleeping dogs lie (as long as they were layed-down by liberals), and to never change the status quo (provided it was created by liberals), would let anything “stand” if asked to do so. They wanted to keep Saddam Hussein in power. I rest my case.
All this despite their being ever so “progressive”.
But the CTV made the mistake of sticking a poll with one of the big telephone push-poll questions—on their web site. And whadyaknow, Canadians failed to agree with the liberals in actual fact, at least on the CTV’s online poll, which must prove very embarrassing for them. Especially since four or five time the number of respondents answered the poll question online as compared to their telephone push-poll. I notice they’ve already removed that online poll and have moved onto a new poll asking the vital question of the day: should there be a new national government program to teach all Canadian kids swimming lessons? (or some such banality that was suggested as a new benevolent Liberal government initiative by…. a Liberal Party MP. Shock!).
No matter how you shake it, it’s a badly worded question. “Do you think the next government should let same-sex legislation stand or should they repeal?” is how they asked it. It practically begs Canadians to do what they’re told—let it stand. And again, it’s not even a law yet, so there’s nothing to repeal.
But it also flies in the face of other polls like