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Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511
Yes lets not...because they could take up a HUGE thread. But just so you know everyone SINGLE last fact that she uses in her writings CAN be defended!
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Ha. She's the Grand Dame of Lying and Misleading Readers with Endnotes (which she mistakenly refers to as "footnotes."). For example:
1. Take your copy of
Slander off the shelf and dust it off.
2. Turn to page 134.
3. It reads
"Even during the media's nightly flogging of Iran-Contra, Reagan's approval ratings fell only 5 percentage points, from 80 percent to 75 percent."
4. Flip to the endnote that she refers you to.
5. Read the endnote. It cites an article from a
Christian Science Monitor piece from 1/7/87.
6. Here's what that article that she cites actually reads:
Political fallout from the Iran-contra imbroglio continues to rain on President Reagan and the Republicans, but some analysts say the White House may now have seen the worst.
As the crisis passes the two-month mark, this is the damage report as seen from here:
*President Reagan took a 16-point spill in his public-approval ratings during the first weeks of the crisis. That is one of the greatest drops ever recorded by a President, a Gallup Organization official says.
Gage says poll results must be properly analyzed. For example, in last month's Gallup poll, Reagan's approval rating fell from 63 percent to 47 percent. But Reagan's personal popularity fell only from 80 percent to 75 percent. The first figure represents public reaction to the headlines, Gage says. The second reflects the public's actual feelings toward the President.
Even so, a Gallup official notes that the approval-rating drop was ''the biggest ever recorded for Reagan, and I think the biggest for any President in a two-month period.''
Even President Richard Nixon's approval rating fell at a slower rate during Watergate.