JD Kolassa ([info]ghoststrider) wrote,
@ 2007-09-17 10:43:00
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bin Laden sinking in polls?
I thought I smelled bullshit when I was reading this article.

Maybe I did, maybe I was faking it. But the writer of this column is the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs--she's an administration mouthpeice. Normally I wouldn't drop all PR people's credibility, but with this administration, yes. She's saying that bin Laden is dropping in Muslim polls, yet when she cites WorldPublicOpinion.Org, it seems that they aren't. At least in Pakistan, anyways.

I dunno what you'll think, but personally, this just smells like bullshit to me.

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(Anonymous)
2007-10-16 07:47 am UTC (link)
So what precisely are you insinuating? There are two separate issues at play here:

1. The viability and validity of the polling process.
2. The FACT that when polled, bin Laden has been increasingly marginalized in Muslim nations.

If you want to argue that polls are inherently flawed, then that's a legitimate point of discussion. But to suggest that the polls aren't reflective of the general trend is dishonest and smacks of self-induced denial.

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[info]ghoststrider
2007-10-16 05:45 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I smack of self-induced denial? We're talking about a mouthpeice of the Bush Administration, for the love of cheese pizza. An administration that has routinely produced bullshit on a level far greater than any other administration I know of.

If bin Laden and Al-Qaeda was really going down, do you think people would still support him and keep using suicide bombers in the name of Islam? And what about Pakistan? Still a fuck load of support for him over there.

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