On March 11, I blogged about a polling firm calling me at home hoping to get me to participate in their left-wing pseudo-science. As I explained in my blog entry, I literally laughed half-way through the poll, and concluded that without their even saying so, I could tell it was being done by a left-wing group, and that they were after a result favorable to a left-wing group—the questions so obviously leading me, the poor innocent householder —and all other suckers—to that conclusion.
I predicted that they were trying to get something to get people to back a hike in monthly social assistance benefits for the British Columbia’s “poor”. I said “…That’s when I laughed and explained to the English-deficient speaker that I was on to him, and said that the whole poll is a joke, and no self-respecting polling firm would ask a tendentious question that was mischievously set-up to produce an answer favorable to the group who’d commissioned the poll, as that question obviously was.”
Today I read in the paper about the poll. I knew it was the same one because I recognized the questions, which I’d recorded in my blog entry.
And who commissioned the poll? As reported in the paper but not in the poll when they phoned me, none other than one of the most blatantly, self-admittedly far left-wing organizations in the country, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (the “Alternatives” being only one, basically, which is full-on hard-core socialism and liberal-left fundamentalism; it’s the “alternative to capitalism”, at any cost whatsoever).
However, the fair and balanced newspaper never once mentioned that this group which commissioned the poll and which justified the huge headline was even remotely “left-wing”, “leaning left”, “center-left”, “liberal-left”, “socialist”, “communist”, nor even the lefty description du jour, “progressive”. This is in contradistinction to any mention of the words “Fraser Institute” in the liberal media, whereupon the Canadian liberal media handbook specifies that reporters warn readers by surrounding the ominous phrase with the words “far-right-wing”, “right-leaning”, “center-waaaay-right”, “ultra-right”, “freaking conservative nutbar”, “not liberal”, or “Bush-lovin’”.
And exactly as predicted, most people were suckered by the poll, as they will be by the headline, to wit this thing gleefully printed in big letters across the front of the “Westcoast News” section of the Vancouver Sun (Canwest Global) today:
Poll finds 74% back hike in welfare rates
Most British Columbians support an increase in provincial welfare rates, according to a poll being released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
The poll, conducted by Ipsos Reid for the centre, found that 74 per cent of 803 respondents would back a hike in monthly social assistance benefits for the province’s poor.
“I’m pleased to see that there seems to be widespread sympathy for people who have to subsist on very low welfare income,” centre research associate Steve Kerstetter said Sunday.
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No no, I double-checked: the word “left” does not appear in the article, which was written by Doug Ward of the Vancouver Sun.
They report, you decide! Of course the left-wing liberal media always fail to mention that they report only far left-wing pseudo-news, and then you decide.
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