Obama Race Speech Distorted by Polling Company Video

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So in essence, the Rasmussen Edit suggests Obama was saying:

"I understand you being angy about Wright's speach. I would be too if I only knew what you know" ... "The real gangsters are the republicans, who use your fears for their purposes and politicians in general." ... "I still believe in Gods power to overcome our racial barriers."

While i admit the need for and use of edited and shortened Versions of longer news footage, i think it is especially necessary to edit it in a manner representative of the overall message of the original material.

The Rasmussen Edit is - in my opinion - biased, because by taking only those three elements from the speech and putting them in new context, the video distorts the original message in following ways:

- It completely omits Obamas rejection of Wrights Statements and instead suggests that Obama diverts from a thourogh discussion of the topic to a theme of "Reagan and the bad republicans".

- By saying that "Politicians routinely exploited fears of crime for their own electoral ends", Obama - in this artificial context - is effectively increasing the impression of him diverting the issue at hand. The uninformed viewer might think: "Yeah, that’s right - That’s exactly what you do right now: Diverting from your troubles (the Pastor) and superficially impute all the problems to Reagan, who for the issue at hand really is an irrelevant figure of the past!"

- This Reagan Excerpt is, in the original speech, unrelated to the Wright Statements. In the Rasmussen Edit, its ads to the impression of Obama being superficial and partisan, suggesting that rather to give detailed notions about his opinion about Wright, he uses the opportunity for a sweeping attack on republicans in effort to divert the issue at hand.

- The second part of that segment, "Politicians routinely exploited fears of crime for their own electoral ends" might create the impression that Obama unwillingly exposes his own Hypocrisy: He confirms the uninformed viewer's impression that he actually is one of those politicians that do not tackle issues seriously but avoid them using a scapegoat (in this case, Reagan).

- Thereby the video convincingly is able to suggest that Obama is a Hypocrite in the first place.

- The last passage is about Obama's faith in God and the American People. Both of them combined should have the power to overcome racism in the US. In the context by now established by the Rasmussen videos, this increases the impressions of superficiality and at the same time suggests that Obama still is tightly connected to a church, whose Pastor's claim's he has not convincingly refuted.

In my opinion the Rasmussen Video wrongfully and subversively claims that Obama is a partisan Hypocrite by splicing together those three short pieces of footage.
Is it possible that this is no mere accident and that Rasmussen Polling is biased and uses its popularity to promote opinion polls in a partial manner?

What do you think about all of this?

Polling agencies and auditing firms are biased in every way.

The entire "industry" of poll-taking (if it deserves to be called an industry) is built on bureaucracies upholding bureaucracies. It all comes down to how they get paid and who sign's the check.

Look at the car company's touting their JD Power and Associates trophies... there seems to be an award for every car company (and they seem to come up with new categories so they can sell more "awards" to the car companies).... JD Powers makes MONEY by pretending to be experts at something so that the people who PAY them can look better than they really are.

So in my opinion... polls and polling agencies are a crock... their information just flies right by me and I don't give a darn.

By the way I went to watch this Rasmussen video thinking to myself... this is probably a prime source of info for the Fox Network Propaganda Machine. And that seems to be how they're spinning it. Fox news is all over their home page...

My analysis: Source Questionable. Move on to better sources of information.

I watched Obama's speech last night and this morning I felt like I was walking on air. I was feeling hope for our country again. I walked past a USA Today paper box and saw a lead article headline that said something like (I'm paraphrasing here) "Obama Plays The Race Card"! I was enraged but was able to read the first few paragraphs before I had to race to catch a train... it appeared that the article actually was speaking factually but the headline was clearly designed to sell papers... and maybe spread the stupidity about this Rev. Wright character a little wider.

I suppose Obama is difficult for the press to deal with. He's so clean and capable. It's really really hard to twist most of his history and background into something evil because he fully admits everything that's ever happened to him. He's HONEST! For lazy reporters and so-called "journalists" who can't seem to find a way to get ahead in their jobs by real objective reporting look for dirt and sensationalism to sell their papers so that their bosses will give them a pay raise. I wonder if any of them even care about winning a Pulitzer anymore. (good reading here: http://www.pulitzer.org/)

Ladies and Gentlemen... please pull your heads out and use the gray matter... THINK about what you're watching especially in TV. Identify the source and try to figure out what their angle is on the story. If it's not real objective journalism just shut it off. Also remember that a questionable source is a questionable source... integrity doesn't come and go.... it's always going to be untrustworthy.

Cheers.
Stradius