Ask A Stupid Question, Get A Stupid Answer

A Washington Post/ABC News poll released today projected that "56% of Americans think that the initial difficulties with the Obamacare website are indicative of larger problems in the program as a whole."

TIME-OUT!  Who's the friggin' genius who thought up this idiotic poll question?  The answer tells us nothing more than 56% of the respondents were drooling shitheads.  A website "glitch" does not mean that all of Obamacare is therefore unsound, no more than a typo signals problems with an entire book or a burnt french fry condemns a whole restaurant.  But the poll-takers never draw any such obvious conclusion.  They just let the oversimplified stupidity hang there without comment as if it's, you know, actual news.

This is what passes for journalism today.  Big whopping lies are "reported" and left unchallenged, as simply one equal side of an argument, as though we're discussing flavors of ice cream:

Boehner and Cruz repeatedly call Obamacare "a train wreck" and claim it's "harming millions of Americans", and no one asks them to explain or provide facts.    Dubya claims Iraq has "weapons of mass destruction" and nobody asks him to prove it!

Modern journalism practices a lazy, counterfeit neutrality under the guise of "objectivity".

In September, NBC's Chuck Todd declared that it was not his job to inform viewers when politicians spread falsehoods.  Would Murrow or Cronkite have agreed?