The Onion or CNN?
Ok, folks. Time to test your media knowledge.
Would this be a parody from The Onion or a real live CNN news story?
I'll give you the headline:
Poll: Nation split on Bush as uniter or dividerAnd a bit of text:
Forty-nine percent of 1,007 adult Americans said in phone interviews they believe Bush is a "uniter," according to the [SNIP] poll released Wednesday. Another 49 percent called him a "divider," and 2 percent had no opinion.Mmmmm. Niiice. I guess if they said "Nation divided on Bush as divider" that would be just too obvious, huh?
Click here for the sad sad truth.
It seems to me that the headline says it all? I mean, you can't logically present the headline "Nation is united calling Bush a divider" either.
The editor should have just clarified it for everyone: "Statistical Proof: Bush is a Divider."
posted by James @ 1:27 AM
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3 Comments:
Very nice first post! I'll link to you on my site. I love good sarcastic current event stuff.
By the way, have we ever had a "uniter" President as defined by voting? As far a I know, voting makes every canidate a divider.
> By the way, have we ever had a "uniter" President
> as defined by voting? As far a I know, voting makes
> every canidate a divider.
The election process is divisive, sure. But say you were elected president but lost the popular vote (Bush 2000) and it was soooo close the Supreme Court had to hand you the election. You would think you might say "Hey, people are pretty divided over the direction they want to go in. Maybe I should stick to the middle of the road." Heck maybe Bush did think that. But whatever he was thinking, what he DID DO was pull the rudder to the Right as hard as he could.
Bush a Uniter! Pfffft! Here's what I think. I think he was TRYING to say "Untier"(1) but mispronunciated it.
(1) as in "I just un-tied the fabric of the Nation that was tying all of these people together"
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