Donald Trump learned the value of making up your own news way back in the day. That’s when he used to call Forbes or any number of outlets and speaking to them as John Barron or David Dennison, tell them what new and wonderful thing a young entrepreneur called Donald Trump was up to. He fooled a lot of people a lot of the time.
Trump’s latest foolie is the recent Wall Street Journal poll which shows conclusively that nobody cares if the GOP candidate is a crook of epic proportions because all they can fixate on is the fact that the Democrat in question is three years older than the Republican and that’s the deal breaker. The New Republic:
The poll, which was published Monday, found that Biden and Trump are tied with 46 percent support each. But “nearly three-quarters of voters say the president is too old to run again,” the Journal article said. It has garnered widespread media attention and outrage. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough pointed out that Trump has been indicted four times and lied many, many more times, and yet he is tied with Biden simply because the latter is just three years older.
But the Journal neglects to provide information about one of the men behind the poll. Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio conducted the survey in partnership with a Democratic colleague, Michael Bocian. In a separate piece, the Journal acknowledged that Fabrizio “works for a super PAC supporting Trump’s candidacy.”
What the Journal does not mention anywhere is that Fabrizio also worked as the chief pollster on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. And since the start of 2023, Trump’s super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc., has paid Fabrizio’s company more than $567,000, according to FEC filings. […]
Fabrizio owned the firm that made a shady payment of $125,000 to Manafort in 2017. Fabrizio was also the lead Trump campaign pollster at the time Manafort provided raw polling data to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, via Manafort’s associate Konstantin Kilimnik. Deripaska has been under U.S. sanctions since 2018, and Kilimnik has been discovered to be a Russian spy.
Terrific folks to be getting crucial information from, right? And this doesn’t speak well for the Wall Street Journal. Yes, we know Rupert Murdoch owns the place but it would have been ethical to disclose this information. It used to be that the Journal could be depended upon for accurate news and if it’s editorial slant was to the right, so be it. This crosses a line that should never have been crossed.
Let’s see what the Journal has to say about this. I certainly hope it will address the issue. If not, then its credibility just went into the toilet.
Something is rotten in Denmark…er…the Wall Street Journal. Too bad the Main Stream Media are attention whores. They run after sensations like my dog used to chase a tennis ball…over and over and over.
Need I say more?
This is why whenever the anchor talkers start harping on and on about “polls” I just roll my eyes……these muthaphuqqa’s will have you believing tfpresidunce can walk on water if you let em.
The sheepeople are as lemmings in that they want to be on the winning side of the contest. If a poll(s) indicate a favorite that in turn is who they support. The best thing is to NOT have polls and allow voters to make up their own mind without supposed (ha) non biased polls. Possible? Yes! Likely? Whadda ya think!
denis…you’re referenced a show about my birthplace…Mt. Airy, where I was born in the New Willow Motel downtown in 1953…my aunt Vannie, R.I.P., from Fancy Gap,(mentioned in the show), went to high school with Andy. I’m Opie Taylor on steroids…Ha.
You know, if I can ever afford to get my damned car fixed I’d like to head up to Mt. Airy just to be able to say I’d seen the town that was part of the inspiration for that show. I liked it growing up and find myself watching re-runs sometimes. My own hometown in southern Illinois had 10k people while I still lived there. It’s dying and has been for decades but my point is it was a small town but no Mayberry. However, back in my old patch there were towns that were a lot like what you saw on that TV show. And even old-school Sheriff’s in some places that didn’t normally wear a gun! Of course, they tended to be bigger/burlier than ole Andy and a lot more gruff if not downright surly in disposition. Even drunks in bars usually started behaving when they walked in the door.
YES, I knew it was paid for but thought it was his RW MOB, paying for it!
Just like the Superbowl, if one team is blowing the other out, folks will chsange the channel. They CAN’T have that, so they HAVE to make it look like a squeaker.
I hate football but after the insane Superbowl where the opposing team tried to.make a touchdown and the Patriots sorta just landed on whoever had the ball,I tune in for the final.few minutes. MA had legal pot,so you lit up.and turned on the Nutcracker Suite and giggle a lot. We aren’t in a,state where it is legal, but some Irish will do the trick too.