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dear hardly-ever-right wing: get over it
skippy the bush kangaroo — well played, mr. silver.

Dick Cheney's non de plume
Rising Hegemon — Nate Silver found out what Cheney's up to (read to the end). I believe the look on Cheney's face was "disdain".

Phony wingnut poll promoter gets testy when called out
Crooks and Liars — [Image courtesy Tom Tomorrow.] Nate Silver interviewed John Ziegler, the wingnut who commissioned that falsehood-based poll purporting to demonstrate that Obama voters were stooopid. Silver's questions, as you can see, are perfectly normal and reasonable, but Ziegler completely loses it. By the end, he's doing a Cheney. It starts to go downhill when Silver, who know a wee bit about polling, asks a perfectly reasonable question: NS: Why would you commission a survey question with no correct ...

John Ziegler, Douchebag
Oliver Willis — Nate Silver interviews the guy behind the dubious “How Obama Got Elected” smear campaign with predictable results. ...

"You Think I'm Going To Tell You That?"
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... Nate Silver has an entertaining interview with John Ziegler about the Zogby "Push Poll" he commissioned. Ziegler is a documentary filmmaker who is promoting the anti-Obama movie How Obama Got Elected. Background ...

Midday open thread
Daily Kos — Nate interviews wingnut. Hilarity ensues. Missouri results were supposed to be finished yesterday, yet the outstanding counties (St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and Jackson still don't appear to have updated their results. Maybe today? This week? This year? Remember the documentary "Hoop Dreams"? The Trib follows up on the two subjects of the movie. One haunting line in that movie has always stuck with me: "People always say to me, 'when you get to the NBA, don't forget about me.' Well, I should've said ...

Wednesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... with "The Daily Show's" John Oliver. * Nate Silver has a fascinating chat with right-wing activist John Ziegler. * Joe Scarborough's judgment is so bad, he can get politics and arithmetic wrong ...

Remainders: Rahm
Ben Smith's Blog — ... The Chicago Sun-Times tries to recapture the Obama newspaper magic by releasing prints of their Nov 5th cover. Bill Ayer's speech at Northwestern gets postponed, reasons a bit unclear. Early voting for Georgia Senate runoff shows African-American turnout is down significantly from presidential early voting. More Jewish communal turmoil, post-elex.. A student at the University of Georgia tries to reinvent the GOP Nate Silver from 538 posts his NSFW interview with John Ziegler about a Zogby survey of Obama ...

Out-wingnutting the wingnut
pandagon.net - these things don't just blame themselves — ... I just finished a book about body issues I want to review, but I’m putting it on ice because this interview at FiveThirty Eight with John Ziegler, a dude who put together a poll and a documentary about how stupid Obama voters are (with the implication being that universal suffrage needs to be repealed if people are going to elect black Democrats) is one of the more fucked up things I’ve seen online, and that’s saying a lot.  Summary from Five Thirty Eight: ...

Embarrassingly Ignorant
Jesus' General — ... I appreciate your efforts, but you're making us conservatives look bad, like we know nothing about politics. You should do a little research before doing an interview. There is no Sen. Go Fuck Yourself in South Carolina or anywhere else. I looked it up. ...

Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — ... that the 7 point (365-173 EV) Obama win was merely an illusion, and that the post-election polls – suggesting that (by 2:1) Republicans need to cooperate and not obstruct the new President – don't count. Charles Franklin: Graphic demonstration of Obama improving over Kerry everywhere (all demographics) in all except a handful of groups, like "small town". And check out those first time voters. Call it the Obama effect. Mark Blumenthal: On Nate Silver vs. John Ziegler/Zogby – it was not a push poll, but the whole exercise is ...

This day will last a thousand years
The Sideshow — ... Nate Silver interviewed John Ziegler about the bizarre poll he commissioned from Zogby to "prove" that Obama voters were ill-informed on "important issues" in the campaign. Hilarity ensues. (Alas, transcript only.) ...

catching some z's
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... ziegler took exception to nate's taking exception to ziegler's taking exception to the election results. ziegler offered nate an interview on the condition that nate post the transcript verbatim. unfortunately for ziegler, nate did: ...

A Study In Ignorance: Voters And Would-Be Pollsters
Open Left - Front Page — ... about an apparent push poll designed to push the (product as well as propaganda) line that Obama won the election through the ignorance of his supporters.  Nate followed up with a second diary, containing an interview with the propagandist involved, John Ziegler, who quickly lapsed into ad hominem attacks and vulgar invective.  After a pause, Nate posted ...

FOX News Guest: It's Rational To Think Obama Is A Muslim
News Hounds — ... Ziegler, a former radio talk show host, made it clear in a recent interview with Nate Silver, of fivethirtyeight.com, that he did not know Obama's religious history. Nevertheless, Ziegler gave even more credibility to the theory of Obama being a former Muslim. ...

Still Stupid After All Of These Years
Balloon Juice — ... is the QUESTIONS ARE BAD. Additionally, the questions don’t even address what you think they address- how does asking people to discern between Palin’s nonsensical gibberish and Tina Fey’s impression of Palin prove media bias? If I bang my thumb with a hammer 100 times, it may hurt every time, but it most certainly doesn’t explain why the sun rises in the east. Signed, A Trained Monkey PS- I would not interview Ziegler if I were you, Ed. He has a potty mouth, and you might get the vapors. ...

More Smears From John Ziegler
Daily Kos — ... Nate Silver's favorite punching bag makes fun of himself again, telling Alan Colmes that he thinks it's "rational" to believe Barack Obama is a Muslim. ...

Palin on Olbermann: ‘THAT guy is EVIL!’
Think Progress — ... Right-winger John Ziegler — who is waging a one-man crusade to prove that President-elect Obama won the election solely because of “media bias” — recently interviewed Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK). In ...

Is she still around?
Political Animal — ... . Playing the victim, and suggesting the media is picking on her because she isn't wealthy is absurd. But Palin wasn't done, telling John Ziegler ( remember him ?) that Katie Couric and Tina Fey have been "capitalizing on" and "exploiting" her, that her embarrassing interviews during the campaign had been "sliced" together, and that she thinks MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is " ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... to John Ziegler, the right-wing propagandist pollster and filmmaker responsible for the forthcoming Media Malpractice ... How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Smeared. ...

Bill O’Reilly, “America’s Daddy” Loves Sarah Palin, America’s “Mama Grizzly”
News Hounds — ... Just when you thought that she had disappeared back into the frozen north, Sarah Palin comes right back at ya. The election is over and folks have moved on. So, in order to remind the pitchfork gang that she’s still the reigning Republican queen, Sarah Palin is once again “ready for her closeup.” And to give her that face time that she so desperately craves, radio talk show host and “filmmaker” John Ziegler, fresh from a verbal ass whipping from professional statistician and “538” genius, Nate Silver regarding Ziegler’s dubious “poll” (embarrassment for ...

Feedback In The Echo Chamber
Balloon Juice — ... The author of that comment is, of course, merely echoing the results of the “poll” of Obama voters produced by John Ziegler (and if you missed his interview with Nate, you missed comedy gold) in which we learned ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... Quick quiz, righties (a question I'd love to get, say, Zogby or aome other pollster to pose to folks at one of these wingnut "tea parties," just the way Zogby asked those question of Obama voters on behalf of that self-styled documentarian): ...