{"id":40869,"date":"2024-08-25T13:35:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T18:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40869"},"modified":"2024-08-25T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T18:35:35","slug":"earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/08\/25\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Landgrebe Award Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s nominee for Trump devotee is a specialist, it appears, in the fine Republican art of projection.<\/em> The honored nominee’s name is Rob Schmitt, and he’s a host for cable news show and partisan Republican wannabe institution, Newsmax<\/strong><\/em>. This is provided<\/a> by Media Matters For America<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

… I think that when you put a poll out there that makes it look like Kamala is doing well, it creates the idea in a lot of people’s minds that aren’t intelligent enough to think for themselves that, oh, she must be better than I think she is. Or is she — obviously, people obviously like her, so I should like her too. I mean, this kind of polling, in my opinion, is dangerous and it’s almost like election meddling in a way to put a poll out there like that and have it this skewed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… aren’t intelligent enough to think for themselves<\/em> … Goodness. In the 2022 Senate elections, looking back, it was quite clear that there were a number of “pollsters” who thought they could influence the election by nudging voters to the right. For example, read this bit<\/a> about Senator Hassan (D-NH) vs Don Bolduc (R-NH) in 2022:<\/p>\n

In\u00a0New Hampshire<\/a>, some conservative pollsters gave challenger Don Bolduc (R) a small lead over Senator Hassan (D), while others called it a dead heat. Then pollster\u00a0Lowell Center<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0gave Hassan a ten point lead, pointedly out of step with everyone else. Hassan\u2019s final margin of victory?\u00a010 points<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I failed to find similar profiles for liberal pollsters, so, when I see frenzied claims like this from Schmitt, I see a ludicrous loyalty to Mr Trump, from a news station which should, but fails to, at least try to present itself as neutral, and not engage in the same insulting behaviors as does Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n

This is way out of bounds for any reasonable person. Which makes him a Landgrebe, someone frantically flailing after social position that’s been lost because their idol has been shown to have feet of clay. All they know to do is what they did yesterday; I suppose the claim that this was inevitable is quite reasonable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s nominee for Trump devotee is a specialist, it appears, in the fine Republican art of projection. The honored nominee’s name is Rob Schmitt, and he’s a host for cable news show and partisan Republican wannabe institution, Newsmax. This is provided by Media Matters For America: … I think that \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40870,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40869\/revisions\/40870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}