According to the Bill O’Reilly School of Political Polling, mentioning President Obama’s name in a polling question brings about skewed results.
In his Talking Points Memo called “Are You Safe?” last night, you can probably guess what O’Reilly’s conclusion was and why.
But some of O’Reilly’s reasoning was quite a surprise.
Apparently, there’s a new Fox poll out which found only 19% of registered voters thought Obama has a “clear strategy for defeating ISIS.” 67% said the federal government is doing a fair or poor job of “reducing threat of terrorism from Islamic extremism.”
But when asked whether or not they approve or disapprove of President Obama’s policy on terrorism, 42% approve and 53% disapprove.
Well, that’s way too much approving for O’Reilly. So rather than ask a pollster or even a sociologist for an explanation, O’Reilly came up with his own conclusion - one that he seemed to pull out of his you-know-what:
O’REILLY: Now that makes no sense. But here’s why the answer was put forth. There are a number of Americans who simply will not say anything negative about President Obama, himself. So when his name – not the Obama administration, but his name – appears in a poll question, the results are skewed.
Most folks understand Islamic terrorism is not being dealt with aggressively right now… Yet they retain an emotional bond with Barack Obama. So that’s what you’re seeing there.
Really? I think I’m seeing something entirely different. But the description I'd give it is not safe for work.
Watch it below, from last night’s The O’Reilly Factor.
The mind-reading powers of the rightwingnut on display again . . .
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Bill and Fox News for example.
If so multiply that number by thousands and one finds the justification for this fraud’s existence in a role on Fox News.
Just when you think he can’t say anything crazier!
He does!!!
It’s just another example that shows BOR is not and will never be a true “fair & balanced” analyst. His personal ideology and his/his employer’s political agenda won’t even allow him to concede that a poll result could possibly give Obama a decent approval rating. What BOR is loathe to admit is that, despite all the Obama bashing done by BOR, his conservative guests and the other FOX “news” talkers, there’s a large portion of America who isn’t buying into all of their attacks. That poll shows that BOR and the FOX “news” wall of hate and misinformation isn’t as effective as they would like it to be.
