Polls for Dummies
August 17, 2009
The last time I checked, a well-crafted poll is supposed to consist of one question followed by a few options representing a variety of answers that were not all of them the same. Or at least, not all of them obviously biased to be answers you want to hear anyway. I mean, if you write a poll and only provide options to respond that you feel are all correct, you shouldn’t be writing a “what is” question, but rather a “which is the number reason for” question. As long as you’re being biased and all.
Enter OneNewsNow, the delightful right-wing organization who hates gay people because we throw much better parties, with this little ‘poll’:
Let’s do a little analysis, shall we?
Question: What is represented by the Obama administration’s move to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act?
Option 1: Disdain for one-man, one-woman marriage.
For someone who is happily married to someone of the opposite sex, I don’t think President Obama disdains such marriage. Try again.
White House is in the pocket of homosexual activists.
Given our currently level of frustration with President Obama’s failure to take a bold stance to support our rights, I doubt it. Try again.
Total disconnect with traditional American values.
We live in the future, assholes, get with the program. Or didn’t you remember that “traditional American values” used to consist of not allowing women to work, vote, or own property and where owning another human being used to be acceptable? There’s this little thing called human rights, and that’s what we’re fighting for, in our own land and across the world.
Just gay it!
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