There is a misconception that war profiteer General Electric sold NBC. That’s not true – they spun it off as a joint venture with Comcast, retaining 49% ownersh of it.<\/p>\n
So today NBC releases a poll trying to create a false opinion analogous to “when dd you stop beating your wife?”<\/p>\n
The payoff question was “do you think the President should get Congressional approval before attacking Syria?”. 80% said “yes”. People will hear that and some will translate that to “80% of Americans want us to attack Syria”<\/p>\n
The entire poll is preceded by this wildly misleading premise<\/p>\n
“Syrian civilians have been killed by their government in response to protests and civil unrest”<\/p>\n
No, they are being killed because they are actively involved in a violent attempt to overthrow and kill the leader of a sovereign country. That question makes no assertion about chemical weapons.<\/p>\n
If this was a real poll, and not a propaganda push poll meant to feed the war machine, it would not state the above as a fact, but just say “based on what you know, do you”… Then when 72% say “Syria? What’s that?”, you know the “poll” is worthless.<\/p>\n
It was reported that the CEO of General Electric drinks the blood of Martians. Do you support sending a rocket to Mars to stop him?<\/p>\n
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