Rules for Radicals: The media tells us Obama is gaining, and you believe that ??!! Here is a word of caution.

So,  how should conservatives address the news embedded in such headlines as this:

CNN poll: Obama's job approval back to 50%; Update: Obama leads all GOP candidates in swing states  ?  

The truth?  We should ignore it.  And why?  Because is comes from CNN.  Understand that a news agency committed to a biased point of view,  should garner no respect from any American,  much less the conservative 60% of the nation. 

I never quote a poll from any of the following:  USA Today, CNN, ABC, cBS, NBC ,  MSNBC, the New York Times,  the Washington Post (PPP), the Atlantic,  the Boston Herald.   The objection to these entities is not that they lean Left,  not at all.  Rather,  that they serve as lapdogs for their president. 

Gallup is Left leaning,  but is used on this blog.  Ditto PEW Research.  Quinnipiac (to a lesser degree),  and, more so than any other polling firm,  Rasmussen. 

Understand that if the enemy polls a segment of the population,  that survey is worthless.  As an example, the evening before the Dole/Clinton election,  NBC had Dole 21 points behind.  He actually lost the election by 8% of the vote.  One wonders just how close that election might have been if we had not been forced to listen  to one phony survey after another, prior to the election. 

Take it to the bank,  figures don’t lie,  but liars often figure. 

Pardon the "fuzzies."  This is the Table of Contents from
my copy of Rules for Radicals. It is more than "significant"
that this book begins with a comprehensive discussion  of
"ways and means."  The remainder of this book is built on
this opening premise.  So, too, are Leftist political strategies
defined. 

There is no political equivalency on this, either.   Republicans are not as much liars as are Democrats,  contrary to the reporting of Greta and the pompass Bill O’Reilly.  Understand that the Left lies as a matter of policy;  it is an aspect of their strategy.  The fact that Rules for Radicals,  a guide to domestic revolution,  is still in print after  it was first published in 1971 and is the handbook for the Left,  is proof of my point.  After the first chapter of the book, titled “Purpose,”  as in “the purpose for the book,”  the next essay is titled    “of means and ends.”  Alinsky begins with this chapter because it is the first general rule of societal revolution  -  begin with an lie and make it seem to be the truth.  

Indeed,  many on the Left believe in the doctrine that teaches “the ends justify the means,”  and this Saul Alinsky chapter explains and defends this loser policy.  Obama learned from this book and Hillary actually was an intern for Alinsky,  back in her college days.  

When a political entity quantifies deceit and qualifies it as a desired strategy,  that group cannot and must not be trusted for anything.