Odd question and true answer.
The fair and balanced folks at FOX asked respondents in a poll a pretty interesting question. Post Tools
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Most of the questions in the FOX News poll released yesterday are pretty normal. Many gauge general approval and disapproval of Obama, key members of his staff, and the administration’s general policies. And then there’s a a few odd-ball questions such as, “Have you ever crashed a party?” (20 percent of Dems have, compared to 16% of Republicans and 17% of independents.)
But no question elicits more head-scratching than the seventeeth: “What do you think President Obama would like to do with the extra bank bailout money — save it for an emergency, spend it on government programs that might help him politically in 2010 and 2012, or return it to taxpayers?”
In all truth, I had to read this woozy a few times over to get what, exactly, they were trying to skew in respondents’ answers. But it’s now clear that FOX essentially gave people the following three options:
A) Will Obama save extra bank bailout money for an emergency?
B) Will Obama spend extra bank bailout money to help himself politically?
C) Will Obama return the extra bank bailout money to taxpayers?
It’s not so hard to see which one of the three options isn’t like the other. The screwy one — option B — is openly leading, suggesting Obama would spend the money on government programs only to grow his own electoral capital. In other words, the only reason he would spend the money on public programs is because he is corrupt.
More people in every category — Democrats, Republicans, independents — picked B.
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