Uh, sure, Arianna, polling is like “looking at chicken entrails,” and we’d all be better off with more tried-and-true methods like the censorship “The Huffy Don’t Post” prefers. When I recently used The Huffington Post’s own figures to create my “Joe Averageguy” analogy, which argues that global temperatures have leveled off at best since 1998, The Huffington Post deleted my forum comments and removed my profile, Xarkonul. You can find more information at my YouTube channel (Xarkonul).
This woman grates on my ears- even with the volume muted. Just her lips moving is enough to know she is thinking about how wonderful she thinks she is, even if she is talking about something else, darling.
"Young people never answer the phone." LOL Wow! Did you actually even think about that moronic statement even just a little bit before you typed it in? It's amazing how people feel totally comfortable showing their stupidity on the internet!
The problem with polling is that if you are honest about it progressive liberal agenda is mostly rejected by the American people. Democracy presents the same problem, which is why progressives don't care for it that much.
The problem with polling is that young people never answer the phone, don't have a landline, or are just too busy to give a response. The only people who are reliably going to answer a phone poll are old people with nothing better to do.
How about the problem with Arriana? She talks about ideas about ideas about what was said and who said and why it was said. In other words, TOTAL BS!! Who cares what she thinks!!!
She was married to a republican millionaire but when he lost his bid to be a California congressman, she dumped him while also divorcing him and sold her soul to the democrats. It was a remarkable 'turn on a dime', sort of speak; I suspect it was a lot more profitable than the proverbial dime. Some women of little talent seem to sell what they have that is salable. Some people even sell their souls when they have no intellect.
I agree with Arianna. You have to really listen to what she is saying here. She is not saying that polling is bad, she is saying that it is wrong for politicians to base almost everything they do on polling.
Her example was obviously perfect: If Lincoln had listened to the polls before he decided to free the slaves, it would never have been done.
Huffington post censors people for having differing opinions (even other democrats making valid points), for pointing out factual inaccuracies on their site and anything else they feel like pulling comments for.
this bitch is a supporter and probably a financier of code pinko.susan "medea" benjamin writes articles in her paper.we know where their sympathies lie. hugo c.of v.
why do i HAVE to vote for a corporate crook? I'd rather stay home and not vote at all than continue mindlessly throwing my vote away on democraps and republikkkans. If nader wasn't on the ballot, I would stay home. But he IS on the ballot- thank buddha- and he will get my vote. I am PROUD to vote for nader. Imagine being PROUD to vote for someone instead of having to hold your nose while you vote for a turd sandwich. doesn't that sound NICE???
War is peace, ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery and censorship is monitoring... call it what you like, it amounts to the same thing...
It's double plus ungood when you cannot even disagree with her opinion. Dare you to try it. If she was that smart and that clever she wouldn't need to delete comments just because they disagree. It was not offensive, personal, rude, snide, trolling or anything. It was polite disagreement and that was all it took to get it removed.
obama/biden? really? you want more war, more corporate welfare and no represenation. too bad. raise your expectations! every single progressive should be voting for ralph nader! send a message to the democraps, who have sold the left out entirely! every election they run right. every single one. kerry did it. gore did it. obama is doing it. he will not govern progressively. he will disappoint you. and you, who keep voting for crooks, will, unfortunately, DESERVE it. fool me once, shame on you...
it has become painfully clear to me that the democraps are just as intellectually bankrupt and idiotically partisan as the repukes. Idiots on the right vote repuke and dont get representation. idiots on the left vote democrap and dont get any representation.We have NO opposition party-we have one big corporate party.I will NEVER understand how any of you can keep voting for these BLATANT crooks.I mean,they dont evenPRETEND to work for the people anymore-keep throwing your vote away on democraps
The real Arianna Huffuington married a rich oil millionaire Republican who was a freind of the Bush's. Campaigned for her husband when he ran for a Republican seat in the CA H of R. She campaigned for her husband, courting religious conservatives, arguing for smaller government and a reduction in welfare. She gained the majority of her wealth when she divorced her rich oil millionaire husband.
Her web site is a farce. If you make any negative comment about a democrat it's deleted.
my experience confirms that. i've been trying to post pro-nader comments and they will not publish them. democraps suck as bad as repukes. wake up you phools! vote nader 2008!
can ANYBODY actually defend the democraps? seriously, i challenge anyone voting democrap to justify their vote. I say you are throwing your vote away on a corporate party that has done NOTHING for you. Tell me why I'm wrong. PLEASE! votenader.orgasm :)
There are MANY reasons but first and foremost McCain will NOT be in office. Nader may be good but I cannot afford to waste my vote...not this election, its too important.
okay. so, instead of mccain increasing the pentagon budget and supporting endless wars, we can have barrack obama increasing the pentagon budget and supporting endless wars. wow. what a difference. what a JOKE. STOP VOTING FOR CORPORATE CRIMINALS- DEMS AND REPUKES ARE USELESS.any progressive person voting democrap is a complete ignoramus.you are WORSE than those idiots on the right who vote repub because of gays, guns or abortion. You're WORSE because you are 'supposed to be' educated.votenader!
i asked you to tell me what the democraps have done, and you reply by saying 'well, john mccain won't be in the white house'. Okay, I get it. But WHAT HAVE THE DEMOCRAPS DONE for progressives over the last 30-60 years? Since the new society of johnson 30 years ago- the democraps have COMPLETELY sold out to big business. they dont oppose the repukes on ANYTHING and when they get elected to end wars, they refuse to impeach and continue funding illegal invasions. HELLLLOOOOO???? seriously, hello???
If Huffington Post isn't the greatest act of repentance of having sacrificed values ...I don't know what is. They'll have to make her a saint now. But one must also try to remember that the Republican party had never been this ...evil. Bush has become the puppet for neocon agendas, and indeed the lunatic fringe has hijacked the right. Ron Paul would be a true conservative republican. The most de-evolved party is now the one that doesn't support evolution, and whose sitting president is an ape.
I guess Palin is your kind of chick. "Thaynks..but no thaynks"
Here's why Arianna is totally attractive ..to most mentally active humans anyway: She's smart, funny, attractive physically ,vocally and verbally...and she's strong. She's hard as nails...that's very attractive as far as I'm concerned. Nothing like an objective woman with principles and a moral compass to get my fires burning :) . Alright...I'll say it..she's perfect, and I fucking love her.
The media is overdoing it with opinion polls which are all randum sample groups, and meaningless people who are not running for office. I whant to know what the politicians stand and they will do for me, so I can make my opinion for or against.
Politicians no longer stand on principle beleifs, but base their opinions on public opinion polls.
The main stream media has been guilty of driving public opinion in past by providing skewed facts and opinion polls.
Cuz she's intelligent and physically attractive, a very deadly combination. But as we all know there really is no such thing as a smart pretty woman, I smell succubus....
For someone who claims to be an Atheist who is a "religious major!!!???" I find it quite outlandish and bazzar that you would refer to her as mythological creature such as a succubus. You lack much judgement in that comment. I hope you would relise that open minded unhindered intelligent women is a necessity for our next step of human evolution. World progress is being held back just because of unwise absent minded macho egomaniacs such as yourself...wake-up!!!
Don't get me wrong, I was being sarcastic. I love Arianna Huffington. Looking back at my comment I can see that it was in bad taste and I could have worded it differently. I meant no disrespect to her or women in general.
And what's your excuse for Sarah Palin. She is only there because she puts the viagra back into John McCain's campaign. At least Arianna has the balls to tell us what she thinks.
Agreed!..lol. ^_^ I'm confused. She says that poll numbers are meaningless, but references a satistic. She was talking about why did hillary won in new hampshire and she says it was becuase there was double digit undecided. They ignored that "fact".. Now where did she get that idea that there were double digit undecided. Who did they ask? who did the POLL? .. Ironic? "that fact..."
She makes her argument with the Abe Lincoln point. That polititians use polls like a crutch and are afraid to make any meaningful policy movement without looking at polls.
Media and Polsters have a tendancy to drive public opinion by cleaver questions in polls. Also getting a true representaion of a populations opinion in randum polls is like rolling the dice...it's all chance.
If politicians are realy concerned about opinion they should do referendums.
I think you and Ann Coulter have more in common on many plains then Arianna could ever possibly have with Coulter by far. Besides Coulter is a clueless idiot ( re: watch?v=LmcZG87Fmxc ).
Aegialeus, You say "polititians use polls like a crutch and are afraid to make any meaningful policy movements" and that the polls are meaningless anyway, becuase you say they "drive public opinion by cleaver questions". My very point was that she's using a POLL NUMBER HER SELF. When she says that there was "double digit undecided". Where did she get those numbers from? PEOPLE WHERE POLLED AND SHE took those numbers and used them; even calling them facts. When she says polls are useless. Irony?
Listen, being an undesided is more of a fact then being polled as a decided. If you were to take a random poll lets say for anything, "the fact that you are undiced" OR DECIDED in a poll is useless on how accurate the poll is until after the vote. GET IT? In otherwords, you are undecided untill you vote regardless of you say in a poll.
Therefore she is RIGHT in saying polls are useless Irony. Do you get it now?
The only real way we can get a consensus of what the general public thinks is to ask them a question. Oh, wait. What do we call it when we ask large # of people a question. Oh, a poll. Thats right, but you know what maybe you are right. Your so right that polls are pointless that hell.. We shouldnt even have elections!
Really?She defeats her self and your self when you both say pollings bad, but cherry pick the results that are important to you.
If you whant a consensus on what people think then you must ask everyone. But keep in mind their answers will have an expiry date, some more so some less so, because opinions change more or less. Get it?
You just made your self into an ass by stating, "We shouldnt even have elections!"
I strongly believe in direct democracy and referendums more so than this representation bullshit. Your barcking up the wrong tree, so go piss elsewhere.
I was being sarcastic that we shouldnt have elections. The point was that elections themselves are a big poll...
And I agree opinions change and I agree people cherry pick polls, but she's saying there useless.. Period and then she cherry picks a poll she likes uses it and says thats why, becuase of my satistic not there is the reason "x" happend instead of "y".. Didnt mean to be an ass; just thought you were stupid and i was trying to explain it to you why she's a hypocrite.
Uh, sure, Arianna, polling is like “looking at chicken entrails,” and we’d all be better off with more tried-and-true methods like the censorship “The Huffy Don’t Post” prefers. When I recently used The Huffington Post’s own figures to create my “Joe Averageguy” analogy, which argues that global temperatures have leveled off at best since 1998, The Huffington Post deleted my forum comments and removed my profile, Xarkonul. You can find more information at my YouTube channel (Xarkonul).
Xarkonul 1 year ago
This woman grates on my ears- even with the volume muted. Just her lips moving is enough to know she is thinking about how wonderful she thinks she is, even if she is talking about something else, darling.
noreast77 1 year ago
"Young people never answer the phone." LOL Wow! Did you actually even think about that moronic statement even just a little bit before you typed it in? It's amazing how people feel totally comfortable showing their stupidity on the internet!
MrFreeLibertarian 1 year ago
The problem with polling is that if you are honest about it progressive liberal agenda is mostly rejected by the American people. Democracy presents the same problem, which is why progressives don't care for it that much.
MrFreeLibertarian 2 years ago
@MrFreeLibertarian
The problem with polling is that young people never answer the phone, don't have a landline, or are just too busy to give a response. The only people who are reliably going to answer a phone poll are old people with nothing better to do.
Aussiemoo 1 year ago
classic limousine liberal
jeffmagic32 2 years ago
id like to pole her alright and im 20.
wowggscrub 2 years ago
How about the problem with Arriana? She talks about ideas about ideas about what was said and who said and why it was said. In other words, TOTAL BS!! Who cares what she thinks!!!
xmenrus 2 years ago
@xmenrus: So she just repeats what other people saying without contributing her own personal ideas...agree..
RockyBalboa211 2 years ago
She was married to a republican millionaire but when he lost his bid to be a California congressman, she dumped him while also divorcing him and sold her soul to the democrats. It was a remarkable 'turn on a dime', sort of speak; I suspect it was a lot more profitable than the proverbial dime. Some women of little talent seem to sell what they have that is salable. Some people even sell their souls when they have no intellect.
xmenrus 2 years ago
@xmenrus: Agree, sorry about how I wrote my past comment.. I just read it and it seemed a little off in the way it was written.
RockyBalboa211 2 years ago
I agree with Arianna. You have to really listen to what she is saying here. She is not saying that polling is bad, she is saying that it is wrong for politicians to base almost everything they do on polling.
Her example was obviously perfect: If Lincoln had listened to the polls before he decided to free the slaves, it would never have been done.
moulingalette 2 years ago
I AM A LEFT OF LEFT LIBERAL AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT THIS PERSON IS A HYPOCRITE
HUFFPOST CENSORS WHAT EVER THEY LIKE AND THEY DO IT ALL day long
melomalomix 2 years ago
lmfao
techno370 3 years ago
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Huffington post censors people for having differing opinions (even other democrats making valid points), for pointing out factual inaccuracies on their site and anything else they feel like pulling comments for.
Visit thehuffingtonpull on blogspot and digg it!
toolootool 3 years ago
Mysogonists seem to be ubiquitous on the web, huh?
An intelligent, articulate and accomplished woman, with insight ... I've long respected her.
femmedange 3 years ago 2
where is this skank from?Most people from iron curtain countries are very embracing to american freedom.
rw5791 3 years ago
this bitch is a supporter and probably a financier of code pinko.susan "medea" benjamin writes articles in her paper.we know where their sympathies lie. hugo c.of v.
wilmaohman 3 years ago
ok.
gladyszender 3 years ago
why do i HAVE to vote for a corporate crook? I'd rather stay home and not vote at all than continue mindlessly throwing my vote away on democraps and republikkkans. If nader wasn't on the ballot, I would stay home. But he IS on the ballot- thank buddha- and he will get my vote. I am PROUD to vote for nader. Imagine being PROUD to vote for someone instead of having to hold your nose while you vote for a turd sandwich. doesn't that sound NICE???
atvfreelife 3 years ago
I now feel sick
Spyplane2005 3 years ago
The problem is, it's rigged.
Spyplane2005 3 years ago
Dude you need eyeglasses
CostaDelBarto 3 years ago
Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss
Flyer222 3 years ago
Arianna is awesome
atong621 3 years ago
She censors her comments on her blog. Just for disagreeing with her in an op ed article I got my comments deleted.
How awesome is censorship!!!
CostaDelBarto 3 years ago
thats not censorship, thats monitoring.
elzosmid 3 years ago
War is peace, ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery and censorship is monitoring... call it what you like, it amounts to the same thing...
It's double plus ungood when you cannot even disagree with her opinion. Dare you to try it. If she was that smart and that clever she wouldn't need to delete comments just because they disagree. It was not offensive, personal, rude, snide, trolling or anything. It was polite disagreement and that was all it took to get it removed.
CostaDelBarto 3 years ago
I had no idea who he was until now. Now it's obvious why Huff post does so well. She's astute.
macflyfilm 3 years ago
Sometimes. But she doesn't seem to like people disagreeing with her at all.
CostaDelBarto 3 years ago
She rocks!
Obama Biden 08!
leongaban 3 years ago
obama/biden? really? you want more war, more corporate welfare and no represenation. too bad. raise your expectations! every single progressive should be voting for ralph nader! send a message to the democraps, who have sold the left out entirely! every election they run right. every single one. kerry did it. gore did it. obama is doing it. he will not govern progressively. he will disappoint you. and you, who keep voting for crooks, will, unfortunately, DESERVE it. fool me once, shame on you...
atvfreelife 3 years ago
it has become painfully clear to me that the democraps are just as intellectually bankrupt and idiotically partisan as the repukes. Idiots on the right vote repuke and dont get representation. idiots on the left vote democrap and dont get any representation.We have NO opposition party-we have one big corporate party.I will NEVER understand how any of you can keep voting for these BLATANT crooks.I mean,they dont evenPRETEND to work for the people anymore-keep throwing your vote away on democraps
atvfreelife 3 years ago
The real Arianna Huffuington married a rich oil millionaire Republican who was a freind of the Bush's. Campaigned for her husband when he ran for a Republican seat in the CA H of R. She campaigned for her husband, courting religious conservatives, arguing for smaller government and a reduction in welfare. She gained the majority of her wealth when she divorced her rich oil millionaire husband.
Her web site is a farce. If you make any negative comment about a democrat it's deleted.
4mittheman 3 years ago
my experience confirms that. i've been trying to post pro-nader comments and they will not publish them. democraps suck as bad as repukes. wake up you phools! vote nader 2008!
atvfreelife 3 years ago
Hey what I wrote was pro-Obama. It just disagreed with her.
Awesome... she's like *yawn* a joke to me.
CostaDelBarto 3 years ago
can ANYBODY actually defend the democraps? seriously, i challenge anyone voting democrap to justify their vote. I say you are throwing your vote away on a corporate party that has done NOTHING for you. Tell me why I'm wrong. PLEASE! votenader.orgasm :)
atvfreelife 3 years ago
There are MANY reasons but first and foremost McCain will NOT be in office. Nader may be good but I cannot afford to waste my vote...not this election, its too important.
brenna1975 3 years ago
okay. so, instead of mccain increasing the pentagon budget and supporting endless wars, we can have barrack obama increasing the pentagon budget and supporting endless wars. wow. what a difference. what a JOKE. STOP VOTING FOR CORPORATE CRIMINALS- DEMS AND REPUKES ARE USELESS.any progressive person voting democrap is a complete ignoramus.you are WORSE than those idiots on the right who vote repub because of gays, guns or abortion. You're WORSE because you are 'supposed to be' educated.votenader!
atvfreelife 3 years ago
i asked you to tell me what the democraps have done, and you reply by saying 'well, john mccain won't be in the white house'. Okay, I get it. But WHAT HAVE THE DEMOCRAPS DONE for progressives over the last 30-60 years? Since the new society of johnson 30 years ago- the democraps have COMPLETELY sold out to big business. they dont oppose the repukes on ANYTHING and when they get elected to end wars, they refuse to impeach and continue funding illegal invasions. HELLLLOOOOO???? seriously, hello???
atvfreelife 3 years ago
If Huffington Post isn't the greatest act of repentance of having sacrificed values ...I don't know what is. They'll have to make her a saint now. But one must also try to remember that the Republican party had never been this ...evil. Bush has become the puppet for neocon agendas, and indeed the lunatic fringe has hijacked the right. Ron Paul would be a true conservative republican. The most de-evolved party is now the one that doesn't support evolution, and whose sitting president is an ape.
LupineLooPine 3 years ago
She's way too intelligent, she's like a genius, she needs to run for Senate.
DrBombay1559 3 years ago 6
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wow she is ugly and annoying
NYyanks2423 3 years ago
She is?!!By what metric?
I guess Palin is your kind of chick. "Thaynks..but no thaynks"
Here's why Arianna is totally attractive ..to most mentally active humans anyway: She's smart, funny, attractive physically ,vocally and verbally...and she's strong. She's hard as nails...that's very attractive as far as I'm concerned. Nothing like an objective woman with principles and a moral compass to get my fires burning :) . Alright...I'll say it..she's perfect, and I fucking love her.
LupineLooPine 3 years ago
what is this womans ex doing now
why dont we ever hear from him
8data 3 years ago
Does that matter?
Schnitz13 3 years ago 2
I agree, Arianna makes a lot of sense.
I also enjoy The Huffington Post.
5/5
maurieer 3 years ago 2
Ariana is 100% right.
The media is overdoing it with opinion polls which are all randum sample groups, and meaningless people who are not running for office. I whant to know what the politicians stand and they will do for me, so I can make my opinion for or against.
Politicians no longer stand on principle beleifs, but base their opinions on public opinion polls.
The main stream media has been guilty of driving public opinion in past by providing skewed facts and opinion polls.
Aegialeus 3 years ago
cougar!
4thstudent 3 years ago
i don't know why but i'm attracted to arianna huffington.
shopwreckin 3 years ago 8
Cuz she's intelligent and physically attractive, a very deadly combination. But as we all know there really is no such thing as a smart pretty woman, I smell succubus....
RexT42 3 years ago
RexT42
For someone who claims to be an Atheist who is a "religious major!!!???" I find it quite outlandish and bazzar that you would refer to her as mythological creature such as a succubus. You lack much judgement in that comment. I hope you would relise that open minded unhindered intelligent women is a necessity for our next step of human evolution. World progress is being held back just because of unwise absent minded macho egomaniacs such as yourself...wake-up!!!
Aegialeus 3 years ago
Don't get me wrong, I was being sarcastic. I love Arianna Huffington. Looking back at my comment I can see that it was in bad taste and I could have worded it differently. I meant no disrespect to her or women in general.
RexT42 3 years ago
And what's your excuse for Sarah Palin. She is only there because she puts the viagra back into John McCain's campaign. At least Arianna has the balls to tell us what she thinks.
66gardeners 3 years ago 4
The Democratic Ann Coulter. You member, you member,....
What a dumb shit.
shampoovta 3 years ago
Agreed!..lol. ^_^ I'm confused. She says that poll numbers are meaningless, but references a satistic. She was talking about why did hillary won in new hampshire and she says it was becuase there was double digit undecided. They ignored that "fact".. Now where did she get that idea that there were double digit undecided. Who did they ask? who did the POLL? .. Ironic? "that fact..."
cant1be1original 3 years ago
cant1be1original
She makes her argument with the Abe Lincoln point. That polititians use polls like a crutch and are afraid to make any meaningful policy movement without looking at polls.
Media and Polsters have a tendancy to drive public opinion by cleaver questions in polls. Also getting a true representaion of a populations opinion in randum polls is like rolling the dice...it's all chance.
If politicians are realy concerned about opinion they should do referendums.
Aegialeus 3 years ago
shampoovta
I think you and Ann Coulter have more in common on many plains then Arianna could ever possibly have with Coulter by far. Besides Coulter is a clueless idiot ( re: watch?v=LmcZG87Fmxc ).
Aegialeus 3 years ago
Aegialeus, You say "polititians use polls like a crutch and are afraid to make any meaningful policy movements" and that the polls are meaningless anyway, becuase you say they "drive public opinion by cleaver questions". My very point was that she's using a POLL NUMBER HER SELF. When she says that there was "double digit undecided". Where did she get those numbers from? PEOPLE WHERE POLLED AND SHE took those numbers and used them; even calling them facts. When she says polls are useless. Irony?
cant1be1original 3 years ago
cant1be1original
Listen, being an undesided is more of a fact then being polled as a decided. If you were to take a random poll lets say for anything, "the fact that you are undiced" OR DECIDED in a poll is useless on how accurate the poll is until after the vote. GET IT? In otherwords, you are undecided untill you vote regardless of you say in a poll.
Therefore she is RIGHT in saying polls are useless Irony. Do you get it now?
Aegialeus 3 years ago
The only real way we can get a consensus of what the general public thinks is to ask them a question. Oh, wait. What do we call it when we ask large # of people a question. Oh, a poll. Thats right, but you know what maybe you are right. Your so right that polls are pointless that hell.. We shouldnt even have elections!
Really?She defeats her self and your self when you both say pollings bad, but cherry pick the results that are important to you.
cant1be1original 3 years ago
cant1be1original
POLLS ARE CHERRY PICKING!!!
If you whant a consensus on what people think then you must ask everyone. But keep in mind their answers will have an expiry date, some more so some less so, because opinions change more or less. Get it?
You just made your self into an ass by stating, "We shouldnt even have elections!"
I strongly believe in direct democracy and referendums more so than this representation bullshit. Your barcking up the wrong tree, so go piss elsewhere.
Aegialeus 3 years ago
I was being sarcastic that we shouldnt have elections. The point was that elections themselves are a big poll...
And I agree opinions change and I agree people cherry pick polls, but she's saying there useless.. Period and then she cherry picks a poll she likes uses it and says thats why, becuase of my satistic not there is the reason "x" happend instead of "y".. Didnt mean to be an ass; just thought you were stupid and i was trying to explain it to you why she's a hypocrite.
cant1be1original 3 years ago
here here, great oops dont poll this....
ubuibiok 3 years ago