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**Here's a rundown of the interview... more in the comments section.]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/59783/1/http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79962/1/http://www.plime.com/politics/l/75053/1/-NY Times]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/60593/1/
Here's what the LA Times had to say about all this "madness."]]>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/13081/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12819/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37404/1/http://www.plime.com/politics/l/80458/1/"Before answering the question, indulge us in noting that the subject of ideological bias in the news media is a drag. The people who care about it typically come at the issue with scalding biases of their own. Any statement journalists make on the subject can and will be used against them. So the incentive is to make bland and guarded statements. Even honest ones, meanwhile, will tend to strike partisans as evasive or self-delusional."]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13638/1/http://www.plime.com/world/l/58923/1/http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/70068/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13585/1/http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50077/1/http://www.plime.com/politics/l/82116/1/
All of this was conducted for a forthcoming documentary on how the news media impacted the 2008 election. Please get on our mailing list and return to this website in the coming months for more information on the film, "Media Malpractice... How Obama Got Elected"

Because obviously interviewing a relative handful of Obama voters, while interesting, is hardly scientific proof of anything, we also commissioned a Zogby telephone poll which asked the very same questions (as well as a few others) with similarly amazing results.

Zogby Poll

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)

56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).

And yet.....

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter

And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her "house," even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.

Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we "gave" one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)]]>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20253/1/"He chose a 42-inch katana, a Japanese samurai sword, and went inside to confront Lee Alexander, a 25-year-old ranch hand from Polk County who was convicted in 2000 of a lewd and lascivious act on a person under 16. Less than 15 minutes later, Alexander was dead."]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/60215/1/http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45340/1/Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University: "TV election news has been hardest on Hillary Clinton this fall." The study also found that "Fox News Channel's evening news show provided more balanced coverage than its counterparts on the broadcast networks."]]>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/74692/1/http://www.plime.com/politics/l/46703/1/
In other news, Hillary Clinton now feeling more confident than ever.]]>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/50300/1/