PBS strikes back!

Remember the Palin poll on the PBS website? The one that the fundie groups were sending all their members urgent emails about, instructing an immediate freepage assault?:

"PBS has a short video on Sarah Palin on the website. Also included is a poll that asks: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be VP?

I logged on a few minutes ago and 37% had voted YES, 62% NO.

Let's turn this around..... You don't have to give your name or email address in order to vote. It's very simple.

PBS hates conservatives."

Yeah, that's the one! Well, PBS caught the play and now they are the Pissed Broadcast System:

"I am writing in reference to the now famous "Palin poll" that appeared on the NOW on PBS homepage on September 5." [...]

"PBS headquarters made the decision on September 22, to implement a cookie registration system on the Palin poll. That system is now part of the poll's inner code, and as of September 23, a user can only vote once per computer. PBS acted because the entire pbs.org site had been experiencing system overload due to massive accessing of the poll."

HAHAHAHAHA, no more freeping, wingnuts! Of course, PBS is just doing this because they hate conservatives.

Fundie-mail

Boom! Got a major alert from one of my fundie email subscriptions tonight. There's a poll out there that needs freeping!!!

"PBS has a short video on Sarah Palin on the website. Also included is a poll that asks: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be VP?

I logged on a few minutes ago and 37% had voted YES, 62% NO.

Let's turn this around..... You don't have to give your name or email address in order to vote. It's very simple.

PBS hates conservatives.

Here's the link:

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html"

Hey, check that out -- they're wearing their little clicking-fingers to the bone trying to get this thing turned around and it's at 39% with a bullet! And even if the stars and suns don't align, the cookies don't clear, and things don't fall into place as planned, they'll know that it's all because

"PBS hates conservatives."

Like the guy said,

"It's very simple."

"It" sure is.

Oh, those online polls

are so meaningless:

The beauty of this is that it's the Globe&Mail again, the source of the ridiculously freeped poll that the anti-choicers point to when arguing that "most Canadians" don't concur with Dr. Morgentaler's Order of Canada. Behold last February's freepgasm:

You see the problem here. It's a little hard to say one is right but not the other, since they both ran in the same place and the same timeframe.

I personally put no stock in online polls, they're so easily manipulated. But the anti-choicers live for these things and reference them often. (Well, not this particular one any more, I guess.)

It's only fitting

-- Hold on, wait a minute. I just have to do this... one more time... just because it felt so damn good the first time:

CONGRATULATIONS, DR. MORGENTALER!!!

*ahem*

So as I was saying, on such a momentous day of pro-choice celebration it's only fitting that anti-choice imbeciles vent their spleen the only way they know how:

Freeping polls, the last refuge of the impotent. Let them have their fun, we have a real victory to celebrate. Not just Dr. Morgentaler's OoC, but reassurance that our Canada includes reproductive choice.

When good polls go bad

One can only wonder where the freepers were 3 weeks ago when this Angus Reid poll was done. It's bad news all around for fetus fetishists as the Sun reports, "Canada a pro-choice country: Poll":

"An overwhelming majority of Canadians continue to support women's right to abort pregnancies, but a recent national survey found the country is split when asked who should foot the bill. The online Angus-Reid poll -- conducted June 4 and 5 of 1,000 adult Canadians -- found 91% of respondents supported abortions under certain circumstances, and only 5% would outlaw it altogether." (emphasis -- hahahaha! -- mine)

91% Pro-Choice! That certainly got the propellers spinning on a few "FD" beanies:

"Online polls are notoriously stacked by organizations that spam them to get the desired result": NOOOOO! Outrageous! Who knew!? But when poll numbers don't go your way, what do you do? Give the messenger two behind the ear, that's what! Bang! Bang!:

While the Sun article could hardly be characterized as a "flat-out lie", I absolutely agree with the sentiment -- dishonesty, manipulation and all manner of odious and squalid lies and distortions should be retracted forthwith and the perpetrators beaten like junkyard dogs.

Oh, ouchie.

Nothing hurts like a freeped internet poll...

Freep that poll til your fingers bleed, nitwits, it doesn't change a thing. But don't let us (the pro-choice majority) stop you from having fun!! Freep on, and forgive us if we don't participate. We're too busy enjoying our reproductive freedom *wink*.

Creating your own reality

Maybe I'm missing something, but I really don't get the whole "freeping" thing:

When they look at the poll results, how do they feel?

"Bravo, well done, people. Another online poll manipulated into hopelessly skewed irrelevancy. Point-click activism is hard, hard work, but the results make it all worthwhile."

I'll never understand how they get some kind of charge out of looking at the fake results of a poll that's pretty irrelevant to start with. It's kind of sad, really.

CBC Facebook experiment ravaged by conservatards

It's too bad, the "Great Canadian Wish List" was a good idea -- a forum to allow young people to express their opinions and debate the issues that are important to them. Unfortunately the fetus fetishists couldn't resist telling everyone on Free Dominion to freep it and turn it into an "every abortion makes baby jebus cry" propaganda-fest, spamming the place with multiple "abolish abortion" and "personhood before birth" posts, in addition to posts on their other pet issues.

One "abolish abortion" post generated a long and lively discussion between the same 20 people and their sock puppets. Not so for most of their other posts: "restore traditional marriage" (no takers there), "proportional representation" (like kids are really interested in that), "eliminate CBC's left-wing bias" (every teenager I know complains about this), and most embarassingly, "for our nation to have a spiritual revival"...egads. No wonder they think adults are morons.

I suppose because they're largely written off as nutcases and ignored everywhere else (even by their own party), the socon wingnutters feel the need to spread their compost wherever they can. Interesting that no adult liberals spammed the site that way, or even joined it for that matter. I've been following the discussion off and on, but join in? No -- it's a student site, for god's sake. And some of the students aren't happy about the number of wingnuts who've invaded their space. Like this one:


Seriously, guys, what are you doing there? It wasn't supposed to be for 30- and 40-year-olds to push their ideological agenda, it was supposed to be for students, you know - the kids. Why won't you think of the children?