Bush topping the Gallup poll of "Most Admired Man" has got to be an inside job! by * illumin8d1
(libertarian)
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
I just read a CNN article showing the results of the latest Gallup poll of the "Most Admired" man and woman. According to the author, "Sitting presidents usually top Gallup's list of the country's most admired man, and this year is no exception: President Bush leads, as the choice of 10 percent of those polled. "
My immediate thought upon reading the piece was, "Are you friggin kidding me?" Are we talking about the same Bush whose approval numbers have been hovering at or below the freezing level on the Fahrenheit scale since longer than the citizen's of this country care to remember? Is this the same Bush whose administration has been embroiled in one fibbing fiasco after another since the day he was "elected" into office, and everyone is sick to death of being lied to?
My second thought was, "Just who are those Gallup folks polling anyway? There is not one soul I know (and I'm no hermit) who would come forward and proclaim that Dubbya is the most admired man in their book. I am 100 percent positive that if I went out to the mall today (not that I'm foolish enough to risk my life in a mall the day after Christmas with all those crazed sale seekers attacking the marked down merchandise like hungry piranhas) and "polled" 100 people at random, it would be a aberration if even one of them mentioned Bush as their most admired. As a matter of fact, I'd almost bet on it!
Imagine this scenerio if you can; "The Brain" covertly calls the Gallup camp and whispers into the head pollster's ear, "I have an idea for your latest most admired poll," Rove says, sneering into the phone like Butthead. "Why don't you poll 3 random places such as . . . hmm let me think . . . how about, Kennebunkport, that's in Maine you know? And then somewhere in the south, . . . like let's say . . . Crawford, that's in Texas. And to round things out there is a large residence on Pennsylvania Avenue, that's DC. Thanks for your cooperation. We owe you one."
Sound a little outlandish? OK, I'll admit I might have gotten a bit carried away there. How about this scenario? The Gallup poll inadvertently makes calls from a data list of hearing impaired people, and they think the question asked is; "Who do you think is the most mired - as in doo doo - person in the country," and they all quickly answer, "George Bush!"
To support this scenario, the poll lists Hillary as the "most admired woman."
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I totally agree with the author. When I first saw the same poll I had exactly the same reaction. I'm guessing that this "poll" was commissioned by someone high up in the Republican Party and that they probably had to hold a gun to the head of the individual that they then asked "President Bush is your choice for man of the year, now isn't he?" If nothing else this explains how Ron Paul is only in the single digits instead of running in the top two or three candidates.
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