   Drudge: anti-Walmart poll questioned
Link.That's an extremely dishonest move that had the potential to cost shareholders millions of dollars.   
  An anti-WalMart organization sponsored a poll that turned out to be anti-WalMart. Sounds like pollster business as usual. Why the fuss?   ;  Wallmart is evil , dont be surprised if some people feel like being anti-wallmart.They closed a store in Canada because employees wanted to start a union... they have a track record of closing any store that wants to start a union because it would cost them maybe 1 or 2$ more per hour per employee and they dont want other wallmart's employee to imitate. It would cost them billions to give a "fair" salary that would still remain very low, not to mention they support child slave labor in many countries. Some of the companies they buy from have been fined for chaining kids as young as 8years old and giving them drugs so they can work 16 to 20 hours a day at 5 cents per hours. Wallmart also screws up small town's economy  by turning local shops bankrupt. Its also proven that only 800 out of 20 000 items as a lower price at wallmart. They put heavy emphasis on those so people think wallmart is the low price god.Screw the fat shareholders man.;  I always wonder why, if so many people hate Wal-Mart, they continue to do so well.   ;  What does Drudge have to do with it? After reading the story, I think it's a total hatchet job. With new stories of GOP corruption poping out all over the place, the Washington Times decides to blow column space complaining that Zogby was paid as an expert witness for individuals suing Wal-Mart? I think the guy who wrote that wants to take advantage of people's ignorance regarding how expert witnesses function. An expert witness doesn't lose objectivity because he's being paid to provide expertise. On the contrary, it indicates that he's a professional who's time costs money. These charges would be a lot more stickier if Zogby had testified for free because that would indicate that he had an axe to grind. The stuff about the press release is more alarming, but in the end, it's just a press release. That pales in comparison to some of the dirty tricks GOP pollsters engage in, for example, push polls. And a closely related activity, telephone harassment of Democrats (see Ex-GOP Official Faces Conspiracy Charge). It seems to me that the conservative readers of the Washington Times might find this story more alarming: Neil Bush Meets the Messiah. But the WT won't ever publish that because guess who own it? Quote:"Those who stray from the heavenly way," the owner of the flagship Republican newspaper the Washington Times admonished an audience in Taipei on Friday, "will be punished."This "heavenly way," the Rev. Sun Myung Moon explained, demands a 51-mile underwater highway spanning Alaska and Russia. Sitting in the front row: Neil Bush, the brother of the president of the United States.Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the South Korean giant of the religious right who owns the Washington Times, is on a 100-city speaking tour to promote his $200 billion "Peace King Tunnel" dream. As he describes it, the tunnel would be both a monument to his magnificence, and a totem to his prophecy of a unified Planet Earth. In this vision, the United Nations would be reinvented as an instrument of God's plan, and democracy and sexual freedom would crumble in the face of this faith-based glory.The name Peace King Tunnel would allude to the title of authority to which Moon, 86, lays claim, and to which U.S. congressmen paid respect on Capitol Hill in last year's controversial "Crown of Peace" coronation ritual.Moon's lobbying campaign is "ambitious and diffuse," as the D.C. newspaper The Hill reported last year, and the sheer range of guests revealed just how many Pacific Rim political leaders the Times owner has won over, including Filipino and Taiwanese politicians. And the head of the Arizona GOP attended a recent stop in San Francisco. But perhaps the most surprising VIP to tag along is Neil Bush, George H.W. Bush's youngest and most wayward son, who made both the Philippines and Taiwan legs of the journey, according to reports in newspapers from those countries and statements from Moon's Family Federation....See also: Moon Over Washington Why are some of the capital’s most influential power players hanging out with a bizarre Korean billionaire who claims to be the Messiah?Quote:Should Americans be concerned that on March 23rd a bipartisan group of Congressmen attended a coronation at which a billionaire, pro-theocracy newspaper owner was declared to be the Messiah – with royal robes, a crown, the works? Or that this imperial ceremony took place not in a makeshift basement church or a backwoods campsite, but in a Senate office building?...Do you think that conservative Christian supporters of the GOP might want to know about these goings on? I do. I think they would be outraged. I think Pat Robertson would be calling for their heads! ;original Zogby release on Wal-Mart"POLL RESULTS INDICATE NEGATIVE PERCEPTION OF WAL-MART GREATER THAN 1 YEAR AGO""A national survey of American adults, conducted by Zogby International, indicates that 38 percent of American adults now hold an unfavorable opinion of Wal-Mart."Can someone point out to me where in the article it states what percent of American adults held an unfavorable opinion of Wal-Mart 1 year ago?I have a feeling that the "poll results indicate negative perception of Wal-Mart greater than 1 year ago" claim stems from the question that asked "do you believe Wal-Mart’s public image is much better, slightly better, slightly worse, much worse, or about the same than it was 1 year ago?" to which 46% answered "worse" compared to only 12% "better". It seems to me that the claim should've read "poll results indicate perception that the negative perception of Wal-Mart is greater than it was 1 year ago. The question itself seems rather pointless. What is needed is last year's data regarding the question "Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, very unfavorable or 'not sure' opinion of Wal-Mart?" I'm sure that data was not available, which led the poll to ask the pointless question about the person's perception of a general perception.   ;Quote:Original post by LessBreadWhat does Drudge have to do with it? I'm also confused about this...   ;Quote:Original post by sinxWallmart is evil , dont be surprised if some people feel like being anti-wallmart.They closed a store in Canada because employees wanted to start a union... they have a track record of closing any store that wants to start a union because it would cost them maybe 1 or 2$ more per hour per employee and they dont want other wallmart's employee to imitate. that proves nothing but that walmart employees are morons. you dont start unions on a per store basis. thats just retarded.creating fair jobs shouldnt be in the hands of, or the responsibility of a corporation in the first place: why do you hold them accountable for such?   ;Quote:From the articlethe much-ballyhooed survey. Where do they teach people to write like this?   ;  Myself, I tend to view with skepticism articles in all of Reverend Sun Myung Moon's propaganda outlets, including The Washington Times.   