A Galluping Tale
Gallup has come out with a poll which has 60% of Americans polled as favoring establishing relations, 51% in favor of lifting the embargo, and 64% for American travel to the island. Given the unholy trio of media, academia, and mindless dolts in entertainment, not to mention the pictures of Europeans lounging on the beaches with nubile young women and the cries of farmers and businessmen lamenting how much money we have lost through the embargo, we might consider ourselves pretty lucky to have 40% against. Think about it. Any average American under 45 has learned about Cuba from the likes of Social Studies teachers, the New York Times and its ilk, and Sean Penn and confederates. Need I say more?
It might have been interesting to see the respondents' answers to some Cuban literacy questions, questions which would perhaps have given a bit more context to their opinions:
What is the system of government in Cuba?
Why was the embargo originally imposed?
Who is Oscar Elias Biscet, Yoani Sanchez (Pick one)?
The answers might be telling, indeed.
Well said
Considering how little most Americans know about Cuba I'm not surprised. We have the MSM, Academia, and Hollywood to thank for that.
I'm interested to know what were the questions asked.
I'm curious... I have a large family spread out throughout the United States. Some with Anglo surnames... Why is it that in these past 50 years NO ONE has ever called to poll them on ANY Cuban issue?
Most people know little of the atrocity that is cagasstro's continuing reign of terror, thanks to decades of main-stream media lies. This is compounded by misleading 'polls', none of which are to be believed.
Gallup, Harris, you name it, they all falsely imply that Americans overwhelmingly demand total gun bans, abortion, high taxes and more big government....
Polls are at best, unreliable. And that's putting it kindly. Pollsters and their leftist media pals have long worked hand in glove to foist socialism on unsuspecting citizens, some of whom still trust pollsters and the press.
The newspapers' dire straits tell us, however, that every gag has a service life, and the time for the press and its skewed pollsters is long past gone.
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
23 April, 2009
What strikes me the most is the total obsession that the media has with Cuba [read this as an obsession with sustaining/saving the tyranny]. It's one poll after the next, one editorial after the next, etc.. I don't see any other country generating this amount of interest. Even larger, and richer countries don't generate this interest. I mean, Cuba is a impoverished, bankrupt country. What country with a similar GNP as Cuba would even generate 1/100th of the interest. It's astounding.
FIU, which has produced two admitted and convicted Castro spies, and has two other accused Castro spies on its faculty, has been churning out similar polls during the last three decades.