I got this from someone on another forum. I'll edit out the name of the soldier with a ---.
"A friend of mine's niece, ---, stationed at Baluud, Iraq was assigned, with others of her detachment, to be escort/guard/watcher for Martha Raddatz of ABC News as she covered John McCain's recent trip to Iraq.
--- and her Captain stood directly behind Raddatz as she queried GI's walking past. They kept count of the GI's and you should remember these numbers.
She asked 60 GI's who they planned to vote for in November. 54 said John McCain, 4 for Obama and 2 for Hillary.
--- called home and told her Mom and Dad to watch ABC news the next night because she was standing directly behind Raddatz and maybe they'd see her on TV. Mom and Dad of course, called and emailed all the kinfolk to watch the newscast and maybe see ---.
Well, of course, we all watched and what we saw wasn't a glimpse of
---, but got a hell' uva view of skewed news.
After a dissertation on McCain's trip and speech, ABC showed 5 GI's being asked by Raddatz how they were going to vote in November;
3 for Obama and 2 for Clinton. No mention of the 54 for McCain."
Normally I do ignore them, but the guy who posted this has been reliable in the past, i.e., no links to the Daily Sun or any of the other rags. If he had got it from another source, he would have posted that.
Edit: Just checked my email. Newsbusters has it as an uncorroborated story, but fell short of calling it false. It's been out for about two months. D'Oh![&:]
Normally I do ignore them, but the guy who posted this has been reliable in the past, i.e., no links to the Daily Sun or any of the other rags. If he had got it from another source, he would have posted that.
Edit: Just checked my email. Newsbusters has it as an uncorroborated story, but fell short of calling it false. It's been out for about two months. D'Oh![&:]I prefer to verify with other information, however there is substantial evidence in the past of news bias to lend a little belief to the story
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I got a PM from the guy who gave this to me. He had originally cited it from another source, but when he did the cut-and-paste, it deleted his previous text in the post. Plenty of embarrassment to go around from this one!
AOL did a straw poll of 500,000 people last week. The vote was 56% for McCain and 44% for Obarter. Other recent polls show Obarter a few points ahead of McCain. I would be amazed if there wasnt at least a modest majority of the military that support McCain.
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