CNN’s political blog has today a story saying that a majority of Americans believe that President Obama is respected in the eyes of world leaders. In the third paragraph, the report reads as follows: “President Obama does fare better on that question than Bill Clinton did in 1994 or George W. Bush did after the start of the war in Iraq,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
A bell went off in my head: ‘why does CNN give me where Bush’s numbers where at his third March in office, rather than the second April in office where Obama is now?’ Well, you got it. If you check up the CNN results of Bush’s second April, u’ll see that 63% Americans believed at that time that Bush is respected by world leaders, better than Obama’s current 56%. But to CNN it doesn’t fit the narrative that the world thought of Bush as a dummy, so they focused on a date when Bush’s number where lower than Obama, and used it to show how “well received” Obama is, also a narrative of CNN.
Try next time, CNN…
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