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Shocked or is it, scared? Either way, Trump’s new ‘MSM Accountability Poll’ has folks freaking out

February 17, 2017 | | Print Article

As the media tried to recover from his explosive press conference Thursday, President Donald Trump took his appeal straight to the people.

A “Mainstream Media Accountability Poll” was released following the news conference, similar to the one then-candidate Trump released during the election campaign to expose media bias against him.

“Do you believe that the mainstream media has reported unfairly on our movement?” the poll begins?

The survey, made up of 25 questions and posted on the GOP and president‘s websites, asks respondents if  they trust MSNBC, CNN and Fox News to “report fairly on Trump’s presidency.”

The survey also asks for the participant’s email address and for a donation.

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“Thank you for standing up to the media’s lies and attacks,” it says. “Unlike the Democrats, we don’t have a 24/7 media machine helping us win a presidential election. That’s why we need your sustained support.”

Of course, some on the left are calling the poll propaganda while liberals on Twitter are calling for them to take the survey to “balance” out the responses.

The poll is a “survey in name only,” UCLA political science professor Jeffrey Lewis told The Washington Post. “It’s a way to fundraise,” he said.

According to the Post:

The committee that emailed it out is a joint fundraising venture made up of the Republican National Committee and Trump’s presidential campaign PAC, and, Lewis said, it isn’t at all uncommon for these groups to use events in the news, like Trump’s harsh comments about the news media, to mobilize and inspire its base.

“Relative to some of the other things we’ve seen, this doesn’t strike me as particularly odd behavior,” Lewis told The Post. “This is a political group doing outreach to its base.”

The reaction to the poll by those on the left was predictable as they were shocked and offended by the very idea of the survey.

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