Three of the latest scams by The Telegraph

The Telegraph seems to be making a point. Again they have demonstrated their bigotry and complete disregard for anything which resembles journalistic integrity.

While what The Telegraph is doing is a shame the bigger shame falls on Mercer President William D. Underwood  and the others involved in teaching this kind of journalism at Mercer University. This is a disgrace to Mercer, the state of Georgia and this once Great Nation.

If this is an indication of what goes on at Mercer. Maybe Mercer does train Doctors who take little children’s tonsils out and amputate legs for up to $50,000 as the president said. We never heard anyone representing Mercer deny it.

The point was very clear when back on January 6, 2013 the editorial board set down and come up with a deliberately misleading Editorial on the Republican controlled House of Representatives because they did not just write a blank check with extremely high limits for Obama and the Democratic controlled Senate for the disaster relief of Sandy.

They passed it at a later date – but no accolades from The Telegraph, the sheer bigotry there runs deep. In case you missed it you can see it at: House shows it cares more about ideology than people. They did refrain from addressing the "lawmakers" as "slimy" and "two-bit whores" as they have in the past. 

  

The Telegraph did not cover the Senate action on the bill and that gave them a free hand with their so-called editorial. They thought they could get away with it and it did not work. How many times have you heard Charles E. Richardson talk about how the people of middle Georgia cannot remember anything – just get out there on the street and asked them what happened yesterday?

If you remember Katrina, the media and the Telegraph jumped on the previous administration like a flock of Vultures. Very little of what they published had a great deal of honesty or substance. Compare this with the way they covered Sandy. This editorial is an example. The only time we heard anything about Sandy was when they thought they could turn it to Obama’s advantage.

If these people want to be propaganda artist as for as we are concerned that is find. But they need to quit selling it as news and have the moral integrity to own up to the public what they are doing. But then if they had any moral integrity you would not be reading this. That is our opinion. 

Another example of this was the way they treated former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The Telegraph missed none of what they thought was the dirt on Gonzales. However when he was cleared of all charges they never apologized and they never issued any corrections about him being cleared. Of course that would have exposed what they did.

See it at: Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, clear of allegations, looks back at time in DC

Their next scam was the Middle Georgians push back against many of Obama’s gun-control proposals.  A scam? Your call we have made ours. You can see why we concluded it was a scam at: Just when you thank The Telegraph can go no lower!

Then to reinforce this and the other garbage they have fed the public on “gun control”, it is back to the editorial board for what we consider the hard core deceit.

The Reuters poll they refer to is an online Reuters/Ipsos poll, no records, no controls, no nothing but what they want you to think. The figures quoted: “Seventy-four percent of Americans favor an assault weapons ban”: and “Seventy-four percent also favor a ban on high-capacity ammunitions clips.” are quite different from other polls. But these figures served their needs and they get them  from: Gun restrictions have wide spread public support: poll. This is an excellent exercise in the “big lie” type of journalism which came out of Germany during the first half of the last century.

Then for their “55 percent approved limits on gun violence in video games and movies and television" they went to an Associated press Poll. They could have just as easy used the data from this poll for their “military-style” and the “sale of magazines” or quoted both. But it appears as if their intention was not to inform but to give Obama what he wants.

The AP poll they refer to for the movie violence tells us that:

“Specifically, majorities in the new poll favored a nationwide ban on military-style, rapid-fire guns (55 percent) and limits on the amount and type of gun violence that can be portrayed in video games, movies or on television (54 percent). About half (51 percent) of those surveyed back a ban on the sale of magazines holding 10 or more bullets.”

 This is why we think this editorial is a scam, you can see it for yourself and make your own decision. Will Americans remain on the side of gun control? 

The following is our comment on the editorial at macon.com:

This editorial is quite interesting. The Reuters poll The Telegraph is referring to is an online poll, no data, no controls, not anything but what they want you to think. You can see the article on the so-called poll at: http://www.reuters.com/article...

The AP poll they use for their “video games and movies and television” is a scientific poll but still subject to manipulation and can be seen at ap-gfkpoll.com  

 This poll tells us: "Specifically, majorities in the new poll favored a nationwide ban on military-style, rapid-fire guns (55 percent) and limits on the amount and type of gun violence that can be portrayed in video games, movies or on television (54 percent). About half (51 percent) of those surveyed back a ban on the sale of magazines holding 10 or more bullets." Oh well there is only a difference of about 19 points and it serves their purpose.

The AP commentary on the poll can be seen at: http://ap-gfkpoll.com/uncatego...

Obama is in trouble with this “gun control” and the media to include The Telegraph are going to give him what he wants, journalistic integrity will not be allowed to stop it.
As we watch events evolve in the area of “gun control” we should remember the media are experts in manipulating the polls, Herbert Asher in his book: “Polling and the Public – What Every Citizen Should Know” tells us: “More worrisome is the huge growth in the use of pseudopolls – nonscientific and more often biased polls conducted by private and public groups through a variety of mechanisms, including the print and electronic media….” More on polls can be found in “The Superpollsters – How They Measure and Manipulate public Opinion in America” by David W. Moore.Oh well, this could have been another editorial like the “House shows it cares more about ideology than people” on the Sandy aid bill.

We have to ask is everyone getting their money’s worth from The Telegraph?

Have a nice day.