Katie Lied: Couric Downplays Results of Deceptive Poll on Immigration | NewsReal Blog
Like most of America, I don’t catch the CBS Evening News all that often. And while I remember that along with Bryant Gumbel, Katie Couric engaged in some vicious—but perky—partisanship while on “The Today Show,” I hadn’t realized that her news broadcast was merely Keith Olbermann with a professional journalistic sheen.
Monday night Katie lamented that illegal aliens “no longer feel welcome” in Arizona and hoped, along with Mayor Bloomberg, that the Times Square bomber was a health care protester.
I noticed that Katie had mentioned a CBS/New York Times poll:
COURIC: On another issue, we asked about Arizona’s new immigration law, which empowers the police to demand anyone show proof he or she is in this country legally. Slightly more than half said the law is, quote, “about right.”
She conveniently left out that only 36 percent thought the law went too far. But that’s only half of the story. What is amazing is that the poll deliberately misstates the Arizona law, and 51 percent STILL thought it was “about right.” Here is the slanted question: (h/t Times Watch)
NYT/CBS POLL QUESTION 67: As you may know, the state of Arizona recently passed a law that gives police the power to question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally, requires people to produce documents verifying their status if asked, and allows officers to detain anyone who cannot do so. Do you think this law goes too far, doesn’t go far enough, or is about right?
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