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Professional journalists: they even get being wrong wrong

November 3, 2008 By admin

Over at Slate.com:

Yes…

An Obama loss would mean the majority of pundits, reporters, and analysts were wrong. Pollsters would have to find a new line of work, since Obama has been ahead in all 159 polls taken in the last six weeks. The massive crowds that have regularly turned out to see Obama would turn out to have meant nothing.

But:

This collective failure of elites would provide such a blast of schadenfreude that Republicans like Rush Limbaugh would be struck speechless (another historic first).

Er. No. Only someone who has never actually listened to Limbaugh would…

Ah, yes. Silly me. Never mind…

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