Huffington Post Misleads Readers

Reporting on a recent poll by Daily Kos/Research 2000, Huffington Post had this headline: “Large Portion of GOP Thinks Obama is Racist, Socialist, Non-US Citizen: Poll.” Curiously, I read the article, and noted that in several of the results specifically noted not even a plurality of Republicans believed Obama to be something negative, whether it was racist, wanting terrorists to win or not being a natural born citizen. What consists of a large number, I wonder- personally, I would expect at least a plurality in the areas referenced in the headline. I would also expect the reporter, Sam Stein, to report and not editorialize, as he did in the article.

Take a look at the poll by Daily Kos- on the one hand, it was comprehensive in the numbers and kinds of questions asked. On the other, a number of the questions were phrased in a way obviously designed to create a negative view of the Republican Party. Either way, however, Huffington Post should be above the intellectual dishonesty practiced in the published article.