{"id":1195468,"date":"2022-01-06T22:04:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195468"},"modified":"2022-01-06T22:04:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:04:56","slug":"cbs-buries-poll-results-showing-most-americans-of-both-parties-think-jan-6-was-a-protest-that-went-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-buries-poll-results-showing-most-americans-of-both-parties-think-jan-6-was-a-protest-that-went-too-far\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Buries Poll Results Showing Most Americans Of Both Parties Think Jan 6 Was \u2018A Protest That Went Too Far\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcbs-buries-poll-results-showing-most-americans-of-both-parties-think-jan-6-was-a-protest-that-went-too-far%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1195468&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cbs-poll-jan-6\">Fox News<\/a>, CBS downplayed the findings of its own poll asking Americans how they would characterize the events in the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The survey asked 2,046 adults, \u201cWhat happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?\u201d Eighty percent of Republicans and 69% of Democrats described it as \u201ca protest that went to far.\u201d Even 70% of Biden voters characterized it that way.<\/p>\n<p>But this was not the information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/january-6-opinion-poll-2022\/\">CBS<\/a> chose to highlight. Instead, after quickly noting, \u201cPeople widely call it a protest that went too far,\u201d its reporting turned its focus on more granular responses to the poll, conducted with YouGov.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost Americans \u2014 including most Democrats, but just a fifth of Republicans \u2014 call it an insurrection and describe it as an attempt to overturn the election and the government\u201d wrote CBS. It then presented a graphic that showed additional answers that respondents provided, including showing that 85% of Democrats chose \u201can insurrection\u201d when given additional options for how to describe the day, while only 21% of Republicans did.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One year later, Republicans are far more likely to call what happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 &#8220;patriotism&#8221; or &#8220;defending freedom&#8221; than trying to overthrow the government or an insurrection <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fOPMWveNyZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/fOPMWveNyZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s3uKKseb5q\">pic.twitter.com\/s3uKKseb5q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kathrynw5\/status\/1479102134712897548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fox highlighted how this reporting on the poll, particularly the graphic, underplayed the feelings of most of the poll\u2019s respondents:<\/p>\n<p><em>For starters, \u201ca protest that went too far\u201d was the overwhelming favorite of the 2,046 Americans who were polled with 76% agreeing with that characterization of Jan. 6. The second most popular result was \u201ctrying to overturn the election and keep Donald Trump in power\u201d with 63%. Both of those options were omitted in the graphic bolstered by CBS. Meanwhile, \u201can insurrection,\u201d which came at a distant third with 55% of Americans was kept in the graphic among the others which polled even less popular.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner\u2019s reporter Jerry Dunleavy posted the actual results of the poll as opposed to the graphic CBS created for it on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerryDunleavy\/status\/1479148078267617291?s=20\">Twitter<\/a>, saying, \u201cCBS News did this poll &amp; one question they asked was if the folks being polled considered the Capitol riot to be \u2018a protest that went too far.\u2019 CBS must not have liked the results (70% of Biden voters &amp; 84% of Trump voters agreed) so they just didn\u2019t include it in the graphic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Law professor Jonathan Turley <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1479253131343106056?s=20\">said<\/a>, \u201cDespite the constant media mantra that 1\/6 was an insurrection, the vast majority of polled citizens view it as a protest that got out of hand, according to a CBS poll. It is the latest example of the MSM in framing a narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tablet Magazine\u2019s Noah Blum pointed out that the poll didn\u2019t even offer \u201criot\u201d as a choice in its list of descriptions. \u201cThe most accurate description (something along the lines of \u2018violent riot\u2019) isn\u2019t even an option on this poll,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neontaster\/status\/1479102895249313793\">said<\/a>. \u201cThis type of poor methodology leads to a \u2018circling the wagons\u2019 effect that just spits out partisan results almost regardless of the question itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Substack writer Jim Reacher concurred, albeit in more pointed language. \u201c\u2018A riot\u2019 isn\u2019t one of the choices. It\u2019s also the only accurate choice. This poll sucks,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jtLOL\/status\/1479124741168541712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As first reported by Fox News, CBS downplayed the findings of its own poll asking Americans how they would characterize the events in the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The survey asked 2,046 adults, \u201cWhat happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?\u201d Eighty percent of Republicans and 69% of Democrats described it as \u201ca &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}