but for some reason, continue to check it out...

 

The other day is see a headline on their site that says...

 

Gallup-Cheney is more Popular than Pelosi!!!

 

So I think to myself, wow... that's crazy. Need to click the link to find out more.

 

What does Drudge's headline not tell you... that Cheney is also more Unpopular than Pelosi too.

 

It's a Gallup Poll that has Cheney's popular/unpopular numbers at 37/54 with Pelosi's at 34/50.

 

Now in fairness, the Gallup website and headline accurately describes the poll, where Drudge's does not.

 

I've seen a bias before, but this is pretty bad. (and bad journalism if you can call Drudge that)

but for some reason, continue to check it out...

 

The other day is see a headline on their site that says...

 

Gallup-Cheney is more Popular than Pelosi!!!

 

So I think to myself, wow... that's crazy. Need to click the link to find out more.

 

What does Drudge's headline not tell you... that Cheney is also more Unpopular than Pelosi too.

 

It's a Gallup Poll that has Cheney's popular/unpopular numbers at 37/54 with Pelosi's at 34/50.

 

Now in fairness, the Gallup website and headline accurately describes the poll, where Drudge's does not.

 

I've seen a bias before, but this is pretty bad. (and bad journalism if you can call Drudge that)

 

thats fairly mild as far as news bias is concerned.

lol, you must hate NBC, the New York Times, and Newsweek then.

I don't have a problem with it. Headlines are written to get you to click or read the article. That one succeeded nicely.

Yah, Drudge's tilts are kind of annoying sometimes. He's always obsessing over the latest climate change skepticism. But I still visit everyday. Huffington Post's news pages are a decent balance against drudge.

Anyone that expects Drudge to be an unbiased source....well...

why I love drudgereport:

 

why I love drudgereport:

 

Heh, that's a great picture.

 

Dredge report is just some guy's amalgamation of news that fits his world view. Its not a real news source, and no one should be surprised of its bias, any more than DailyKos or HuffPost.

 

HuffPo can be worse at times.

Yah, Drudge's tilts are kind of annoying sometimes. He's always obsessing over the latest climate change skepticism.

I do too. I have a documentary from 1978 warning about the impending Ice Age.

 

I do too. I have a documentary from 1978 warning about the impending Ice Age.

And as has been discussed here before, those were not scientific pieces. Actual, peer-reviewed scientific research pieces are virtually all acknowledging a warming trend, and at least some degree of human involvement (how much is of course debateable). Those 70's pieces talking of a mini-Ice Age were pop stuff based on just a couple years of data, which isn't enough to make any sort of reasonable case one way or another.

 

why I love drudgereport:

 

 

 

Caption: "does Michelle Obama need to choke a b****????!!!!!" LOL

Edited June 9, 200916 yr by juddling

And as has been discussed here before, those were not scientific pieces. Actual, peer-reviewed scientific research pieces are virtually all acknowledging a warming trend, and at least some degree of human involvement (how much is of course debateable). Those 70's pieces talking of a mini-Ice Age were pop stuff based on just a couple years of data, which isn't enough to make any sort of reasonable case one way or another.

 

The oft-quote mined Hays et al article from an issue of Science.

 

You see guys like George Will taking only the very last part of this:

Future climate. Having presented evidence that major changes in past climate were associated with variations in the geometry of the earth's orbit, we should be able to predict the trend of future climate. Such forecasts must be qualified in two ways. First, they apply only to the natural component of future climatic trends - and not to anthropogenic effects such as those due to the burning of fossil fuels. Second, they describe only the long-term trends, because they are linked to orbital variations with periods of 20,000 years and longer. Climatic oscillations at higher frequencies are not predicted.

 

One approach to forecasting the natural long-term climate trend is to estimate the time constants of response necessary to explain the observed phase relationships between orbital variation and climatic change, and then to use those time constants in the exponential-response model. When such a model is applied to Vernekar's (39) astronomical projections, the results indicate that the long-term trend over the next 20,000 years is towards extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation and cooler climate (80).

 

He tries to spin that as near-term global cooling trends while lying to his readers by not disclosing the 20,000 years part.

 

It wasn't necessarily the science that convinced me, but just how empty the counter arguments are and how often they lie or mislead.

why I love drudgereport:

 

 

 

and somehow that woman made Maxim's Hot 100 list...

and somehow that woman made Maxim's Hot 100 list...

 

well, you know, her husband is god.

yeah i never understood the love for her looks. I think my favorite was when the RedEye (is there a worse paper/paper spin-off in the country?) editorial talked about how she's going to bring the sleeveless look back because she's got such great arms. GMAFB.

OMG! OBAMA'S TAKING OUR GUNS!!!

 

Oh wait (the actual article it links to)....

In front of a run-down shack in north Houston, federal agents step from a government sedan into 102-degree heat and face a critical question: How can the woman living here buy four high-end handguns in one day?

 

The house is worth $35,000. A screen dangles by a wall-unit air conditioner. Porch swing slats are smashed, the smattering of grass is flattened by cars and burned yellow by sun.

 

“I’ll do the talking on this one,” agent Tim Sloan, of South Carolina, told partner Brian Tumiel, of New York.

 

Success on the front lines of a government blitz on gunrunners supplying Mexican drug cartels with Houston weaponry hinges on logging heavy miles and knocking on countless doors. Dozens of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — sent here from around the country — are needed to follow what ATF acting director Kenneth Melson described as a “massive number of investigative leads.”

 

All told, Mexican officials in 2008 asked federal agents to trace the origins of more than 7,500 firearms recovered at crime scenes in Mexico. Most of them were traced back to Texas, California and Arizona.

 

Among other things, the agents are combing neighborhoods and asking people about suspicious purchases as well as seeking explanations as to how their guns ended up used in murders, kidnappings and other crimes in Mexico.

 

“Ever turning up the heat on cartels, our law enforcement and military partners in the government of Mexico have been working more closely with the ATF by sharing information and intelligence,” Melson said Tuesday during a firearms-trafficking summit in New Mexico.

Edited July 1, 200916 yr by Athomeboy_2000

OMG! OBAMA'S TAKING OUR GUNS!!!

 

Oh wait (the actual article it links to)....

 

Speaking of "false outrage"...

What's the Michelle Obama pic from?

Speaking of "false outrage"...

I'm not sure what your angle is, are you pointing out hypocrisy? I don't see it. That's just an example of someone showing Drudge being Drudge.

 

During the campaign season, literally the only reason that one dumbass girl that made up the story about being assaulted and drew a backwards "B" on her face (cuz she was too stupid to remember she was looking in a mirror) and claiming some random black man did it because she was a McCain supporter is because Drudge hyped it up. I used to be able to easily find counter-examples of how common and irrelevant these kinds of incidents were but I can't now since Google is dominated by stories about this non-story.