{"id":1362294,"date":"2022-03-07T11:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T16:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1362294"},"modified":"2022-03-07T12:09:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:09:38","slug":"corrupt-media-pollsters-are-using-dishonest-tactics-to-drag-america-into-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corrupt-media-pollsters-are-using-dishonest-tactics-to-drag-america-into-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrupt Media Pollsters Are Using Dishonest Tactics To Drag America Into War"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fcorrupt-media-pollsters-are-using-dishonest-tactics-to-drag-america-into-war%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=1362294&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DF-SD-03-10903-scaled-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>You may have heard over the weekend that Americans now \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/exclusive-americans-broadly-support-ukraine-no-fly-zone-russia-oil-ban-poll-2022-03-04\/\">broadly support<\/a>\u201d imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine. \u201cA broad bipartisan majority of Americans think the United States should \u2026 work with NATO to set up \u2018no-fly zones\u2019 to protect Ukraine from Russian air strikes,\u201d insisted a Reuters\/Ipsos poll released Friday, noting that 74 percent of respondents supported the aggressive move.<\/p>\n<p>The same poll, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/sites\/default\/files\/ct\/news\/documents\/2022-03\/Reuters%20Ipsos%20Ukraine%20W3%20Trended%20Topline%20030422_0.pdf\">showed<\/a> that only 39 percent of Americans want to see American troops sent to Ukraine, with fully 61 percent opposed \u2014 a statistic that was conveniently left out of the Reuters write-up (the report only mentioned vague \u201cmajorities\u201d opposing boots on the ground). That gaping disconnect indicates two things: Most Americans cheering a no-fly zone don\u2019t know what that would entail, and the warmongering media is using that ignorance to the advantage of its agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Pollsters asking Americans if they support a no-fly zone aren\u2019t explaining to them what the consequences of such an action would be. NATO has so far <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/nato-meets-ukraine-calls-no-fly-zone-hinder-russia-2022-03-04\/\">refused<\/a> to enact a no-fly zone precisely because it would almost certainly lead to war, and Russia has made it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/putin-warns-against-no-fly-zone-over-ukraine\/\">clear<\/a> it would interpret such a move as an act of war.<\/p>\n<p>As my colleague John Daniel Davidson <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/01\/reckless-neocons-want-escalation-with-russia-in-order-to-regain-control-of-the-gop\/\">noted<\/a> last week: \u201cOf course a no-fly zone would mean just that: The U.S. would have to shoot down Russian warplanes, and Russian warplanes would very likely do the same to us. We would be in a shooting war with Russia before the no-fly zone was even established.\u201d Florida Republican Rep. Marco Rubio agreed, saying a no-fly zone \u201cwould mean World War III.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reuters even admitted, four paragraphs into its report, that \u201cIt was not clear if respondents who supported a no-fly zone were fully aware of the risk of conflict.\u201d Of course they weren\u2019t, as evidenced by the 35-point difference between support for a no-fly zone and support for American troop involvement. <\/p>\n<p>The poll also found 57 percent of Americans agreed that \u201cGiven the current economic climate, the United States cannot afford to be taking military action in Ukraine.\u201d Six in 10 Americans also didn\u2019t want to see the U.S. conduct airstrikes against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Pollsters didn\u2019t even ask how many respondents would oppose a full-scale war with Russia, a number which would surely be even higher. In fact, look through the toplines of the survey and you won\u2019t even find the word \u201cwar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a real chance that if the United States and the rest of NATO are dragged into a full conflict with Russia over Ukraine, we could see a devastating nuclear war. That\u2019s not a possibility our politicians and media should take lightly, but nevertheless, they continue to recklessly bandy about unserious responses to Russia\u2019s aggression.<\/p>\n<p>While Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., implores his Twitter followers to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/1499574209567199235\">assassinate<\/a> Vladimir Putin, and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/01\/reckless-neocons-want-escalation-with-russia-in-order-to-regain-control-of-the-gop\/\">urges<\/a> a no-fly zone (while also peddling disproven propaganda), the censors who preach about fighting misinformation at home have happily allowed false stories about Ukraine that fit their pro-war agenda to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/28\/ukraine-proves-our-ruling-class-only-cares-about-misinformation-when-its-politically-convenient\/\">propagate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another recent poll from Rasmussen Reports shows the broad divide between elites who are pushing for war and the actual people who would fight it. Overall, 49 percent of American voters answered \u201cyes\u201d to the question, \u201cIf a wider war breaks out in Europe, should the U.S. military be involved?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But that belief is held by only 37 percent of respondents with an income below $30,000, compared to 66 percent of respondents making more than $200,000. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/backgrounder\/demographics-us-military\">majority<\/a> of U.S. military recruits come from middle-class backgrounds, a demographic that supports shedding American blood in Europe far less than the ruling class does.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"ilfO6nfm3whJFeajTEDs52Il1knZLHvSgRxXOHGVB8zRAz0cI0MYWPu4pr27d7t1EqtqWdVh\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;If a wider war breaks out in Europe, should the U.S. military be involved?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All Voters \u2013 Yes \u2013 49%<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Yes by Income \u2013<br \/>Under $30K: 37%<br \/>$30-50K: 48%<br \/>$50-100K: 51%<br \/>$100-200K: 52%<br \/>Over $200K: 66% <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W4yFT6LZvt\">https:\/\/t.co\/W4yFT6LZvt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rasmussen_Poll\/status\/1498778759893327872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. You can follow her work on Twitter at @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard over the weekend that Americans now \u201cbroadly support\u201d imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine. \u201cA broad bipartisan majority of Americans think the United States should \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1362294","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\/1362294","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362294\/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=1362294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}