Category: Anxiety

http://twitter.com/#!/SarahPalinUSA/status/366291016396963841

Sarah Palin appeared on Fox News’ “Cashin’ In” Saturday afternoon to talk Obamacare and death panels, and she backed up her appearance with a Facebook post calling out the mainstream media for getting health care rationing really wrong.

Please see the article linked below. To the “defenders of the truth” in the lamestream media, I’m not sayin’, “just sayin’.”

To our steadfast supporters, let’s always keep our eye on the truth and never back down from ensuring our great country isn’t deceived by what we are told to think by the media or the powers that be. When they get it wrong, they really get it wrong.

We will never sit down and we will never shut up. It isn’t in our DNA and it isn’t what our country was founded upon. The need to question government and address its flaws is incumbent on all people of conscience, and we will never stop defending true and plainspoken facts. There is much more to come, hold tight and keep your resolve.

The linked article in Investors Business Daily notes how Howard Dean and other Democrats are beginning to distance themselves from Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, which Dean called “essentially a health-care rationing body” that will frustrate patients and fail to control costs. It also notes how Palin was ridiculed for saying, “We can’t party like it’s 1773,” referring of course to the Boston Tea Party of … 1773.

http://twitter.com/#!/Jarjarbug/status/366291649195814912 http://twitter.com/#!/Sean_for_3/status/366291840682569730 http://twitter.com/#!/jenmelton1976/status/366297795570835457

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/08/10/sarah-palin-vindicated-on-ipab-when-media-get-it-wrong-they-really-get-it-wrong/

http://twitter.com/#!/chucktodd/status/354577274701496320

That would be a good question! And one that might elicit more tears from NYC comptroller hopeful Eliot Spitzer, aka Client 9.

Earlier today, NBC’s Chuck Todd correctly noted Spitzer’s victimhood charade and lamented that the media “are only enabling him.” Now if only someone would commit an act of journalism and hold Spitzer accountable for the prostitution scandal that forced him to resign as New York governor. Hmm. Does Todd know anyone whose job it is to ask tough questions of politicians?

http://twitter.com/#!/GPIA7R/status/354577815670231041 http://twitter.com/#!/BenK84/status/354580181274468352

Todd’s reply to that one: So much real journalism to pursue, so little time.

http://twitter.com/#!/chucktodd/status/354580392537362432

Plus, even if he wants to know the answer, why feed the narcissism?

http://twitter.com/#!/chucktodd/status/354578642799562753

Zing:

http://twitter.com/#!/Matthops82/status/354579867062370305

Then again, Todd would totally be on it if only he could land an interview.

http://twitter.com/#!/chucktodd/status/354578779697446913

(Unless he’s referring to Vitter.)

If Todd finds any time in his busy schedule, here’s another question he might want to ask:

http://twitter.com/#!/JammieWF/status/354577672497672192

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/07/09/real-journalist-chuck-todd-hopes-someone-else-will-ask-eliot-spitzer-why-he-exploited-women/

http://twitter.com/#!/DrewLinzer/status/378206782847328256

It really has-been an educational week for many people interesting in polling.

Initially arrived the illuminating disclosure that liberal polling organization Public Policy Polling often doesn’t launch the outcome of polls with unexpected outcomes.

After that arrived this interesting article by TNR’s Nate Cohn, showing that PPP’s polling methodology includes a number of dubious practices these types of as “random deletion” of participants.

Then emerged Nate Silver’s statement which he will stay counting on PPP data even though he thinks PPP’s polls are crap.

Drew Linzer, a Ph.D. political scientist who knows their material, likened arbitrary removal to “intuitive ‘shrinkage’ weighting.”

http://twitter.com/#!/DrewLinzer/status/378192018503000064

We’re no specialists, nonetheless it seems like he’s saying this can be a technique always get the sample to mirror the population most importantly.

If it feels like smoke and mirrors, don’t worry, because all pollsters take action:

http://twitter.com/#!/DrewLinzer/status/378190380258193408

Really, that’s certainly reassuring.

Relevant:

Nate Silver: PPP’s polls suck but I’ll keep using them

Nate Silver blasts Public Policy Polling for suppressing pro-recall poll outcome; upgrade: PPP apologizes for defending itself in public(!)

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/09/13/polling-expert-ppps-polling-practices-are-in-line-with-the-industry-norm/

Read more: http://ifunny.com/pictures/had-her-six-years/