facts make strange bedfellows

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&e=1&u=/ap/20021204/ap_o
n_re_us/world_attitudes

> In a broad international survey released Wednesday, the Pew Global Attitudes
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> Project found that the United States is falling out of favor in 19 of 27
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> countries where a trend could be identified.

[Er out of 185 countries, falling out of favor in 19. But they quote it as
'19 out of 27 where a trend could be identified'. Nope! No media bias here!
Nothing to see keep moving along folks!]

> The dislike was especially striking in Muslim countries.

Ya think?

> Large percentages of Muslim respondents in several countries said they believe
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> suicide bomb attacks are a justifiable defense of Islam. This was especially
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> so in Lebanon, where 73 percent supported this belief.

Who prints these lies? It is obvious that they only polled the most exrteme
radicals. It is simply false that the majority of muslims are crazy lunatics
simply because they admitn to it during reputable surveys done by long
established and credible surveyers using scientific methods. Don't confuse
us with facts. A small minority of muslims are not radical and deranged
psychopaths, therefore all muslims are peaceful flower children and to say
otherwise such as by quoting established measured facts such as asking them
directyl what they really thing and writing down the answers they give is
not only unfair and racist but an insane act of bigotry! Why did not they
ask them if they liked puppy dogs or kittens instead? That they asked if
they lupported suicide bombings that kill thousands of innocent people shows
how truly biased and unfair the media really is!

- Jeff

on 12/5/02 1:48 AM, X. J. Scott wrote:

> Who prints these lies?

Terrible lies indeed!

Here you can read the complete report, or download it as a pdf file:

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=165

And here you can read all the dirt about their terribly flawed methodology.
Obviously any survey that shows a majority of peace-loving muslims strongly
favor suicide bombings against innocent civilians, including women and
children, is totally invalid!

http://people-press.org/reports/methodology.php3

These are the facts:

1. Islam is not just *a* religion of peace, it is the *only* religion of
peace.
2. All Muslims therefor ergo orange arangutang are peaceful.
3. No Muslim has ever done anything wrong, and those that did so were
strongly provoked and their reaction was justified.
4. Some Muslims are peaceful therefore all Muslims are peaceful.
5. America and the jews are to blame for everything even the fact that there
is not enough orange tang to go around the drink made for astronauts. Yum.
6. You sir are a horrible racist bigot and everything you say is a hate
mongering bald faced lie.
7. Either Bush or Kissinger is the Antichrist.
8. All religion must be banned because it is evil. Except Islam.
9. All bow to the Holy low-limit Just Intoned Dyad!
10. Lattices lattices lattices.
11. Lattice see now, is there anything I have forgotten?

- Jeff

>

HA! Thought you would fool me would you i placed them uppon the Tree of Life
and saw your secret message .
you have to know to place 11.At Daath!

number 9 number 9
yea a big fat 7/4 up the 9/8

>
> These are the facts:
>
> 1. Islam is not just *a* religion of peace, it is the *only* religion of
> peace.
> 2. All Muslims therefor ergo orange arangutang are peaceful.
> 3. No Muslim has ever done anything wrong, and those that did so were
> strongly provoked and their reaction was justified.
> 4. Some Muslims are peaceful therefore all Muslims are peaceful.
> 5. America and the jews are to blame for everything even the fact that there
> is not enough orange tang to go around the drink made for astronauts. Yum.
> 6. You sir are a horrible racist bigot and everything you say is a hate
> mongering bald faced lie.
> 7. Either Bush or Kissinger is the Antichrist.
> 8. All religion must be banned because it is evil. Except Islam.
> 9. All bow to the Holy low-limit Just Intoned Dyad!
> 10. Lattices lattices lattices.
> 11. Lattice see now, is there anything I have forgotten?
>
> - Jeff
>

-- -Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
http://www.anaphoria.com
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU 88.9 FM 8-9PM PST

on 12/5/02 2:27 AM, Kraig Grady wrote:

> you have to know to place 11.At Daath

dang arangutang you cracked the code lode

--- In metatuning@y..., "X. J. Scott" <xjscott@e...> wrote:
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story2&cid=519&e=1&u=/ap/20021204/ap_o
> n_re_us/world_attitudes
>
> > In a broad international survey released Wednesday, the Pew
Global Attitudes
> ========================== ----------
--------
> > Project found that the United States is falling out of favor in
19 of 27
> -------
> > countries where a trend could be identified.
>
> [Er out of 185 countries, falling out of favor in 19. But they
quote it as
> '19 out of 27 where a trend could be identified'. Nope! No media
bias here!
> Nothing to see keep moving along folks!]

you lost me. why is this media bias? it simply means that in 8
countries, the trend was positive, and in 158, no trend could be
identified. so?

on 12/5/02 4:52 PM, wallyesterpaulrus wrote:

> you lost me. why is this media bias? it simply means that in 8
> countries, the trend was positive, and in 158, no trend could be
> identified. so?

Hi Paul,

The upshot of the survey was that in the overwhelming majority of all
nations, most people like America - 83.3% of all nations.

This fact was not disclosed in the opening paragraphs or the headline. In
journalism school, you learn that most people do not read an entire article
but just the first few paragraphs. Journalists use this knowledge to
construct an article that gives one point of view while at the same time
technically appearing unbiased.

In this article, the initial sections strongly suggested that there is a
problem with America being hated in the world. This was extremely misleading
and is the opposite of the true facts that are not disclosed until much
later in the article. Hence, the usual anti-american media bias.

- Jeff