{"id":88,"date":"2005-08-10T19:33:09","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T03:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=88"},"modified":"2006-09-16T10:28:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T18:28:18","slug":"tonights-push-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/tonights-push-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight’s Push Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

A push poll is a negative campaign trick to besmirch your political opponent by tying them to something negative and conducting a bogus poll to spread the misinformation. For example, “I’m calling to take a poll on my opponent’s eating children for breakfast.” Assumes a fact not in evidence.<\/p>\n

Tonight I received a seemingly innocent phone call. It was a political poll conducted by Citzens United.<\/p>\n

United for or against what or whom, they didn’t reveal.<\/p>\n

It was a poll about the ACLU and NAMBLA. I refused to answer the poll “questions,” but I did ask a few questions of my own. Like who the heck are you.<\/p>\n

Citizens United<\/a> is a right-wing group that seems to feel America would be better if it were more to the right. I don’t agree with that as I am a moderate, but in today’s climate this makes me somehow a Commie whacko.<\/p>\n

From reading the ACLU site<\/a>, it seems that the ACLU did defend the right of NAMBLA to have a website advocating its repellent sexual beliefs. (NAMBLA is the North American Man Boy Love Association. I do understand why no one would advocate these practices in South America or other parts of the world.)<\/p>\n

But here’s the thing. Is this a news story right from today’s headlines? No, it is a five-year story dug up solely to attack the ACLU.<\/p>\n

I am not a member of the ACLU, but I don’t favor attacking it in this way with a push poll<\/a>, or as I call it, an attack poll. <\/p>\n

This push poll is a scurrilous method used by Citizens United. It pushed me all right: away from Citizens United and towards the ACLU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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