Wait, I’ve been told that I have “greatly exaggerated” the failures of this industry.

Lol.

Here’s an idea to reach a “consensus” on what went wrong. Ask someone who didn’t screw it up — again — then shut up, and listen to them. politico.com/news/2021/04/1…
I feel as if we've been down this road before.

Pollsters screw up, majorly, refuse to listen to those who did not, smear them instead, put on cute conventions exclusively with the screw ups, listen to them about why they screwed up, then screw up again.

Rinse. Repeat cycle.
The industry should take grandma’s advice: if you want to be better at something or a better person, then surround yourself with people better than you, and learn from them.

Screw ups can’t tell other screw ups how not to screw up. Losers can’t tell other losers how to win.
While I applaud the effort and public statement, they just can’t seem to get out of their own way. Their ideology and overall worldview prevents them seeing the entire picture, even when they’re generally headed in the right direction.

For instance, yes, Covid-19 lockdowns...
For instance, yes, Covid-19 lockdowns did impact the polls, but not in the way their bias has directed them to think.

Online panels were bombarded by Jeffrey Pull Your Toobin and Karen Catastrophe-like professional class people who had nothing else to do with their time.

...
Their claim that Trump and Republican voters were more difficult to reach because they didn’t comply with restrictions, is intellectually feeble.

You call cellphones, right? You can read an email when you’re not home, right?

I have myriad other points to demolish that argument.

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12 Apr
If the @PressSec and the Biden Admin think conservatives are their major hurdle with the vaccine, they they have a real problem. We found a clear disparity between black, Hispanic and other minorities vs. whites, and they are more suspicious of it.
Point being, the percentage of whites who told us they are a hard No on getting the vaccine basically mirrors the national average. Other minority groups saying they are not getting it exceeded the average and won’t be reached by PSA spots during NASCAR, @PressSec.
Here are Covid-19 vaccinations by race:

"I have no plans to get vaccinated": 24.6%
"I intend to get vaccinated": 32.1%
"I have already been vaccinated": 43.3%

@PressSec @jrpsaki, can you reach Black/AA, American Indian/Alaska Native, Indian/Other Asian groups via Nascar PSAs?
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11 Apr
This argument has one very serious hurdle to get over: history.

Prior to the Harrison Act in 1914, Americans used to be able to purchase laudanum OTC. Bayer offered diacetylmorphine (heroin) OTC.

Continued...
Drug bans initially stemmed from addiction concerns, which boomed after the invention of the hypodermic needle.

But it wasn’t about race. The addicted were Civil War veterans.

Later, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1930 certainly used questionable tactics, but...
... in 1906 the Pure Food and Drug Act required labels to state specific drugs such as opioids, cocaine, etc.

The first Opium Commissioner Hamilton Wright very specifically cast America as a drug consuming leader world-wide, and he wasn’t on a crusade against any race.
Read 4 tweets
23 Mar
Media are pushing the hell out of shootings to help Democrats pass gun control. Well, not all shootings. Only the shootings that help their political cause.

Inner city gun violence to include young men gunned down in autonomous zones dedicated to George Floyd, are off limits.
"No motive at this time" means it doesn't fit the media narrative. When you've been around this long, you learn to speak the language.
Exactly.

Truth be told, the literature on the impact of covering mass shootings is very clear. So clear, in fact, a thinking person can't help but to wonder what media motives really are.

...
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20 Mar
This is a ridiculous take from someone still willing to carry water after the most embarrassing 24 hours this so-called superpower has experienced in a very long time.

The Chinese publicly called us weak to our faces, something they wouldn’t dare do under the last president.
Contrary to this total propaganda from @mitchellreports, the Chinese are not bold now because they got used to a disengaged America under Trump.

They’re bold because they were on bender knee under Trump, and now they have someone who not only won’t take a stand, but can’t stand.
Absolutely delusional to blame yesterday’s humiliating disaster on Donald Trump.

China abused and belittled the @JoeBiden Administration because they can, and know they can.

Because they know his tough response will be a lecture to Americans about using “China” before “Virus”.
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25 Feb
1) This is not a “Covid relief” bill. Less than 10% is related to Covid.

It’s a kickback to Biden/Democratic financial supporters.

Less than 5% appropriated for schools *can* be spent in FY21, forget about whether it will.

Trump already funded states to safely reopen schools.
2) Meanwhile, fed employees with distance learning children will get weekly what you will get in total “stimulus”.

That’s essentially an immoral bribe for mostly leftwing parents to further fail their own children.

All for a couple thousand.

We’re disgusting.
In a gross public union kickback, and bribe to betray their kids, fed workers with children in distance learning can get $1400 WEEKLY for as many as 15 weeks.

The rest of American parents struggling to pay the bills and keep their children from falling out, will get jack $#!t.
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30 Jan
Remote learning is a disaster for ALL children, not just "Black and brown". The the focus on certain races over others 1) reveals a major defect in how white urban liberals think, and 2) because of that defect, became the story and distracted from the actual issue.

Sad-@$$ $#!t.
Also, this sentence and claim in Brooks' article is false.

"This was unclear last March and April, but now study after study has shown that schools can be safe."

Transmission of Covid-19 is not at all novel vs. other SARS-like viruses.

It was clear.
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Truth be told, @nytdavidbrooks and others who are now doing a U-Turn on school closures succumbed to panic and groupthink last spring. They allowed their judgement and reason, as well as ideology and political preferences, to cloud their reason.

Speaking of reason...
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