Bloomberg's "Poll" Another Big Lie!

From the NRA-ILA:

This week, anti-gun New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, released the findings of a poll conducted by a political consulting firm called "The Word Doctors," whose slogan is "It's not what you say, it's what people hear." Word Doctors' president is a pollster who has been reprimanded by the American Association for Public Opinion Research and censured by the National Council on Public Polls, and who says that the key to polling is "to ask a question in the way that you get the right answer."

At some other time in our nation's history, an organization like this would not have been commissioned to conduct a poll, and perhaps it would not even have existed. At a minimum, its poll would have been considered biased and rejected by every newspaper in the country.

But today, as the distinction between editorials and news has become blurred, information is treated so superficially that a catchy word or two is enough to get someone elected to public office, and some in positions of authority cannot conceive of the concept of shame.

Read the whole release. The story's starting to move around the blogosphere...ready this from Bill Quick from the Daily Pundit added his own satirical spin:

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It's on us to attack this information wherever it appears. When your local paper invariably presents this "polling data" as legit, we need to go after it pretty aggressively.Be polite, but don't mince words — this is a lie!