What to do with Beauty Pageant Contestants...

http://www.jedreport.com/

Where do they get these people from. I was casually watching the CBS local news from NEW YORK. There were two reporters talking about the election. I was busy reading various columns in the NYT, so I admit I was not paying full attention, but something caught my ear. One of the reporters cited an AP poll that showed that Obama was one point ahead. The other, I kid you not, said, "Maybe this has to do with Obama wants to redistribute the wealth." Huh? Since when did an anchor in NEW YORK start spouting McCain talking points. The jedreport video shows Biden having the most insane interview with a "reporter" (I put reporter in quotes - she is a former Miss Vermont - I know I shouldn't be snooty about beauty contestants, but frankly the dominatrix from Alaska has given pageant contestants a bad name) from Tampa. She even quotes Karl Marx. Jed Lewison calls this a funny interview, but I must admit to be appalled. Do people really think that calling for a more equitable tax structure is socialism or a redistribution of wealth? If a reporter in New York can say that, God knows what idiocy is being spouted in the rest of the country. PS Of course I was panicked by the AP poll mentioned, so I franticly went on line to track it down. I couldn't find a new one, so I began to wonder if it was the one that Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight wrote about. It was the only poll in the universe that showed McCain crushing Obama in the youth vote. And I read somewhere else that one of the questions went along the lines of What do you think of Obama's socialist policies?
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-aka-nate.html