Online polls are notoriously unscientific, but the corporate media loves them
-- unless the wrong guy wins, of course.
When antiwar Rep. Ron Paul won an MSNBC online poll, it was yanked off their website faster than you can say 'the corporate media are rightwing shills.' The poll showed that the Texas Congressman won the Tuesday night GOP Michigan debate in a landslide, getting 86% of the online vote.
In explaining their decision, CNBC managing editor Allen Wastler said it was because Paul supporters "flooded" the poll and it was his duty to pull it because "I haven't seen him pull those kind of numbers in any 'legit' poll."
Unh huh.
But if a corporate favorite like Rudy Giuliani had got those numbers?
Posted by Deck at October 12, 2007 08:03 AM