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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Monday, April 07, 2003
The bloggers of mass destruction sure love their polls. Lummox Taranto reports on a poll showing 81 per cent of Americans affirming that they have a clear idea of what the present war is about. I don't know why the statistic so fascinates the Lummox; after all, I'm sure even Ted Rall believes he knows what the war is all about.
Here are some more poll results the killbloggers may care to put in their pipes and smoke:
In a Jan. 7 Knight Ridder/Princeton Research poll, 44% of respondents said they thought "most" or "some" of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were Iraqi citizens. Only 17% of those polled offered the correct answer: none.