How to skew the results of the “question of the day”

Another image I found on Facebook, which purports to be a Fox News screenshot:

Anyone regular reader of this blog probably realizes that I have thought that about marijuana before I ever heard of Barack Obama. That Barack Obama might think the same thing is irrelevant to my thought processes, and what he thinks has zero to do with what I think about the subject.

In fact, my reaction was along these lines:

The question is not whether I agree with Obama on this issue. The question is why he would be agreeing with me.

But the more I thought about it, the more it occurred to me that Fox News is America’s leading anti-Obama channel, and that many of their viewers would be inclined to disagree with anything Barack Obama says. In fact, I would bet that a poll about marijuana would give very different results depending on which of the following questions were asked:

a. Do you think marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol?

b. Do you agree with Barack Hussein Obama that marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol?

I am certain that asking Obama haters whether they agree with Obama skews the results. And I am equally certain that such “results” will be offered as evidence of “public opinion” about marijuana.

This sort of thing goes on all the time, of course on both sides of the spectrum. (CNN of course does the same sort of thing.)

Whenever activists are involved, you can depend on trickery.