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John Ziegler has released this YouTube in support of a...

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Wednesday November 19, 2008



John Ziegler has released this YouTube in support of a documentary he is making that purports to show that Obama supporters are Flavor-ade drinking cretins. Zeigler hired a nationally-known polling firm to do the survey to be unbiased .

However, not is all as it seems. Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com questioned the methodology of the survey as 58% of the people in the clip are black, as opposed to 23% of actual Obama voters. It also had many ambiguous questions like “Which of the four [candidates] started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground?”

Then today, in a must read article, Silver prints the transcript of his interview with Ziegler.

Your second must read article is this 2005 profile of Ziegler by David Foster Wallace. Wallace at top form, really.