Don ' t push me, man

Oh goody. Yet another thing to add to the list of stuff that makes Christie go crazy.



Today's entry? Push polls.



There are several kinds of push polls, but the one in question is the kind where there are no choices that let someone give an honest and uninterpreted response to the question. It's where you're asked, "Do you like peanut butter?" and the two choices are "Yes, I like how it sticks to the roof of my mouth," and "No, it has aflatoxins in it."



And the person sitting there going, okay, "I like peanut butter but I hate how it sticks to the roof of my mouth," and the one going, "I hate peanut butter but what the heck are aflatoxins?" have to either not answer or give an answer they were pushed into.



And then the peanut butter company starts an ad campaign saying "98 percent of people like it when peanut butter sticks to the roof of their mouth, while only 2 percent are concerned about aflatoxins," and then the federal goverment eases up on aflatoxin prevention programs and the National Peanut Butter Advisory Board ramps back its aflatoxin public education program and it was all based on nothing.



And now you're all patting me gently on the arm and speaking in low, soothing tones and reminding me that that is a pet blog, Christie, please focus.



And that brings me to a poll over on the Dog Fancy website where we're asked our feelings about some undefined thing called "canine legislation," and the only three choices are that you love it because it protects dogs, hate it because it infringes the rights of owners, or accept that it infringes the rights of owners while still protecting dogs.



To all of which I'm sitting here screaming, "What the heck do you mean by 'canine legislation,' dudes?" Because without knowing if they're talking about "it's illegal to shoot your dog in a ditch" or "it's illegal to have an intact dog over the age of 8 weeks" or "it's illegal to keep your dog in the car in the sun with the windows closed," how can I possibly answer the question?



I now return you to your usual weekend activities, which I hope entail cuddling the kitties and walking the dogs, rather than taking Internet polls.

Comments

[straybaby]

Comment by 2CatMom — September 16, 2007 @ 10:50 am



OY! good thing they haven't called me! lol!~



i used to get calls from the Dems on my business phone and the Repubs on my home phone. i thought it was hysterical because they were next to each other on my desk! one year i had laura bush and bill on the 2 different answering machines. still trying to figure out what made one phone a Repub and the other a Dem . . .

[2CatMom]

As a 4th generation Chicagoan, it wouldn't be hard to guess that I'm a registered Democrat. The funniest thing, is that I get polls from the National Republican Party as a 'loyal Republican." Now before anyone gets upset, let me say upfront that I have no doubt that the Democratic surveys do the same thing as I am about to describe, but I've never received any surveys from them.



On the last survey they asked 1)Did I want prayer in school or did I want the schools run by godless teachers (Gee I'd like teachers, Godfearing or not that can teach kids to read, write, add and subtract if that's not asking too much), 2)did I want to choose my own doctor or have socialized medicine where the state would decide what medical care I can get (hmmm, like my employer isn't making that decision for me now...if I can afford it) and 3)give special priviledges to homosexuals so they call convert our children to this immoral lifestyle (Convert? Really? I'm waiting to see them passing out literature on streetcorners - that will be fun).

[Christie Keith]

LOL ... yes, I don't think the pet media is quite as big an offender in this regard as the political parties. ;)

[Gina Spadafori]

Yeah, I saw one that was like:



Should all pets be required to be spayed or neutered so we don't have to kill homeless pets in shelters?



Um ....

[2CatMom]

Straybaby - I think I can answer that question. The Republican phone is the one on the right, and the Democratic phone is the one on the left!