Wonkette
Yesterday, we discussed how the Republican National Committee is performing extensive research to find substitutes for certain unprintable words that have wonderful ways of goosing voter turnout. Wonkette operative James Del went under double-secret cover to secure images of the actual survey supposedly sent out by the RNC to college students. Truly alarming ‘agree/disagree?’ questions, after the jump!
First: Women are complainers, vixens, cows, and meddlers, and Social Security should be privatized. Agree or disagree?
Next: Black people are threatening, trustworthy, anxiety-inducing, worrisome, and better dancers. Agree or disagree?
And now for the Hillary Clinton lightning round. What if we were to tell you she said this thing that George Bush actually said? Would that make her seem like a strong, effective leader, or a miserable ball-chomping battleax?
Thanks to James Del, LTD for the sleuthing.
UPDATE: The SurveyU people have asked that we publish their email response to this. Here it is!
We are SurveyU, authors of the survey reproduced in your post of February 26th. We were not asked for any information regarding our survey prior to publication by any member of your staff or by James Delgiudice, the purported ‘sleuth’ behind your article’s assertions.We are the sole author of the survey and received no payment or other consideration from any organization, including the one identified in your post, to create and distribute the survey. It is our intention to publicly release our analysis of the results within the coming weeks.
We therefore request that you immediately amend the post to indicate these facts.
Without regard to your incorrect inferences as to whether this constitutes an attempt to architect attack strategies or create ‘push polling’, the survey uses a number of constructs commonly used by psychologists to measure attitudes toward race and gender (attached) and does not evidence any
pre-determined bias or desired result. We used these constructs to attempt to measure whether race and gender are underlying motivators behind the voting intent of college students.In a separate section of the survey a series of statements made by Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton were randomly assigned to one of the candidates or the other. This research technique is used to uncover any underlying bias that students have toward each candidate by seeing how the electability /
appeal ratings differ when the same statement is attributed to each of the candidates.SurveyU is proud of its use of scientific methods of gauging the sentiments of college students for the purpose of contributing to public discourse. We have produced a number of surveys for this purpose, all of which can be freely downloaded from http://www.surveyu.com/press_room.php
You are on notice that you have made false statements as to our motivations and our intent. We request that you either remove the post or reprint this letter in its entirety within the body of the post.
Sincerely,
Dan Coates
—
Dan Coates, Co-Founder
SurveyU - The Voice of the American Student
www.SurveyU.com
Comments
The picture indicates that this is indeed secret squirrel material. kudos james
The race is now between a nagging, dominatrix bitch and a terrorist loving, fear monging black man. Vote WALNUTS! McCain- he is all of these things.
There you go interpreting an innocent survey as being sexist, Sara. How like a woman.
You totally should have run with his previous post instead:
"So I'm listening to my roommate fuck his girlfriend right now. It's only remotely arousing, to be honest. My favorite part is that smacking sound balls make when they hit anything. You know what I'm talking about…it sounds like a fat kid clapping..."
[jdel.tumblr.com]
Rejected Survey Questions:
"Is Mandingo one of your all time favorite movies?"
"Are you intimidated by a black man's penis?"
"Do you think that No Means Yes and that women are overreacting to the whole date rape thing?"
"Does Hils Clinton make you horny?"
"Does Halle Berry make you feel all funny inside?"
"Would you pay $20 to blow a black police officer?"
I feel (nervous...anxious...worried...awkward) around black people. Man, are they gonna circulate this garbage to the country club crowd exclusively?
McCain/Squirrel '08!
Do you feel awkward interacting with a senile old man?
No wonder Condi can't get anything done with her GOP colleagues! They must be shitting a brick each time she says "hello."
"I love it when these pricks get mean." Ron Leibman "Norma Rae"
Dontcha like how they sneak a policy question in between the 'scary broads and black guys" crap?I'll bet my ass they'll try to use the "answers" from those to prove that white college kids are all Rethugs.Never mind they were hidden between sexist and racist agitprop in such a manner as to get the "survey" respondent to answer them in the same way they answered the rest of this trash.
After finishing that survey, I believe that black people do a lot of drugs and don't want to serve in the military.
And women want to ship all of our jobs overseas so that they can have welfare.
I better vote for the old, white guy.
OK, who's the wise guy who said he feels 'horny' when interacting with black people?
@Ptarmigan: Thanks! This is the closest I can get to being a secret agent.
@southerndem: That post is getting coverage on Fleshbot, actually. =)
Everything in America sooner or later comes down to that threatening black penis.
I feel anxious when interacting with those responsible for this survey: [strongly agree]
But seriously - is this from the RNC for reals?
"Did your high school's white prom queen date the black football star? How did that make you feel?"
Er, why would the RNC be trying to fine tune Hillary's belligerence? I smell Penn's pudgy fingers on this one. The anti-feminism is a misdirection.
Subtext: which negative emotion does talking to a black person invoke in you?
I've mentioned it before, but I can't help but think back to this awesome AJC article...lifelong (southern) Dems who won't vote for Obama b/c they "just don't trust him."
[www.ajc.com]
@jagorev: Win.
Lord, just re-reading that article reminds me that for for all it's pretending that Atlanta is "cosmopolitan," Georgia is by and large still dominated and operated by idiots.
This must be one of those push-comes-to-shove-polls I've heard about.
This proud American feels significantly dumber after having read those questions. As a bonus, I feel sadder, too. Yay, Conservative Hate Machine!
Yes, but where do I find out my score?
@Mo MoDo: "Did your high school's white prom queen date the black football star? How did that make you feel?"
ooooh that's the spot, right there. now squeeze half a lemon in it and rub 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt.
delicious.
comeuppance is the new black.
@NotNotLickingToads:
*its
apparently, I'm one of them
Why sit on the sidelines feeling nauseated when you can join in on the fun? Lots of Race choices! Wheeeeeeeee!
[www.surveyu.com]
The black section of this survey appears to have been transcribed verbatim from a GOP voter's psychotherapy session.
My reactions:
Are you shitting me? This can't be for real! Are you shitting me? Please let it be for real!
"I feel nervous when my wife/girlfriend/sister/mom talks to a black man."
Where are all the questions about mooslims? Repub woosies can't spot a black mark like that on a candidate?
@NotNotLickingToads:
Oh god, i've actually spoken with someone in that story (in my day job....). ugh.
"I fap to interracial black-on-mature-blonde pr0n 30 times a day."
I feel awkward when interacting with stupid people.
I dunno... I wanna laugh, but it was the same kinda shit that knocked WALNUTS! out of the Republican primaries in 2000 -- and I think anybody here would've gladly taken 8 years of that old coot over 8 years of W.
@Mo MoDo: Wait, are any Republican voters young enough to have attended desegregated schools?
10) Once you've gone black, would you ever go back?@ManchuCandidate:
@NotNotLickingToads: Amen.
I think the fact that they are targeting this to college students is totally nuts...WE'RE supposed to be the ones voting for Hilary or Obama! The fact that the RNC is trying to gage how racist and sexist I am in order to assuage me to the other side is not only batshit insane, but it's flat out disturbing. We are so fucked if these people get to run shit for another 4 years.
@Jonathan_Fisk: At my country club, a Republican woman actually said that she was canceling her Vanity Fair subscription because "they had the nerve" to dedicate an entire issue to Africa. Clearly, she is uncomfortable even reading about black people.
You earn points for valuable prizes by taking the survey.
Seems like a wise idea - pay for gullible cooperation.
I loved all those "I feel [threatened - worried - nervous - anxious] when interacting with black people" questions.
Of course, with the Republican Party there's really little need to have an "If you're black, please skip the next section" preamble.
They should ask the kids:
"Wouldn't be cool to have your great, great granddad as President?"
"How do you feel about spending the next few decades of your life in Iraq?"
"Are you really dumb enough to believe there will be any social security or medicare benefits for you when you retire?"
"Don't you think global warming will be like an eternal spring break in South Padre?"
I can't believe they left off the, "For $100,000, would you yell 'White Power!' in the middle of a Baptist congregation?" question off the survey.
That's a downer.
@demtard: Yeah but it was snatched away from him, just like that tray of maggots and rice in Hanoi.
I hope, I hope every college kid answers yes to the threaten-worry-nervous-anxious black people questions. Not that the RNC really needs any encouragement to exploit racial fears but it will kind of fun to see how they will target young white voters.
Gee, it seems like only yesterday that Ken Mehhlman was apologizing to black people for the GOP's Southern Strategy.
If the DNC was smart, they'd offer the kids a free six pack of beer in exchange for every blank survey the kids turn over. The DNC should then fill out the surveys and send them back to the RNC.
"Hilary used to bleed for 5 days every month! Do you really want someone that weak running our country?"
@Jihad2BU: When the revolution comes, she'll be the first against the wall. Of course I refer to Prince and the Revolution.
Way to use a thesaurus, survey!
I feel incommodious/vexatious/dolorous/unpropitious when interacting with Black people.
THey forgot a question:
"When you think of something hiding in the woodpile, do black people come to mind?"
@xaviero: Uh-huh. Damn Romney-voting Democrats!
BTW, how much does a wet dog cost in Georgia these days?
Was golf ruined for you when the PGA embraced Tiger Wood?
They could have just come straight out and asked, "Would you support overturning the 13th amendment?"
Robe and hood - OK for casual Fridays?
"Do you refer to the period 1861-1865 as The End Of Social Order or The War Of Northern Agression?"
Well, while the NRC gets to do this krazy stuff, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has even more wacky adventures. Maybe a C5A full o' money will fly their way.(thanx to Tim F at Balloon Juice for this - kind of brightened the day)
The last question in the survey just sums it all up, really.
Whoa, doggers!
How did, "We should end Corporate Welfare - no gov't handouts to business" slip in?
...Must be the control question to invalidate the entire ballot.
What is all this Crapola this is really bizarre I do believe that having a Women and a Black Male competing for Dem nomination has really shown that we got issues big time. Question: Are you more freaked about a Women candidate or a Black male candidate? Lets get one of those bogus polls that are so popular lay those cards on the table America because this is the real issue that is making America seem sczhoid.
@NotNotLickingToads: Atlanta is cosmopolitan. City of, that is. Metro Atlanta and the state of Georgia is Texas with better weather.
Here's the question I would have asked if it were my job to write the poll:
How strongly do you agree that George Bush has fucked up this country so bad right now that a goddamned arab Negro might be elected president?
Extremely strongly
No fucking doubt
Absolutely
or
Unequivocally
Forget "push" polling. This is "shove you down a long flight of broken marble stairs into a waiting bin of nails" polling. But it is delightfully desperate, which is fun.
Darkies: Do they give a mean shoe shine, or are they just mean?
Women: Walking life support for vaginas, or endlessly yapping life support for vaginas?
+ Watch video
@Lazy Media:
I live "in town" with all the Negroes and must say, it scares the shit out of me to be around all those white people when I have to drive out to the 'burbs.
And I'm fucking caucasion!
looks like a lemur----to me---perhaps the Huck WOULD TRY TO FRY IT in a popcorn popper.
i really don't see what the big deal is. Dick Cheney's woman has been the President for the past 7 years.
Sorry for all the cursing I am about to do but this shit makes me want to puke all over the fucking room. In part because I can harken back to a day long ago when I could actually relate to those questions.
I will freely confess that when I went away to college I had had very little experience interacting with anybody who wasn't white. And yes, during my first year there, I did sometimes feel anxious when interacting with African Americans.
But for fucks sake, I knew that that was a problem with me -- not with those I was nervous about. And rather than letting those negative feelings grow I realized that they were internal to me and over time they simply dissipated.
Let's be honest, many kids who grow up in small towns or remote places may have very little experience dealing with people who are different from them. So when they go away to school there can be some growing pains. Nothing wrong with that, really. You can't change where you're from.
But these fucking bastards are trying to fine tune a political message that exploits those negative emotions. Blech!!!
What they should do is put a big fucking message at the bottom of that sheet that says - 'And if you answered yes/agree to any of these racist questions, you need to get out more, kid.'
Is there anyone I can kick in the nuts over this shit?
(serious mode off)
If Billary held a press conference with this survey in her hand, would she be proud to share the stage with it, or would her head explode like in "Scanners"?
Question not asked:
Are you more anxious when people smoke Newport cigarettes or chew Skoal/Kodiak dip?
I didn't see the question;
When a drunken lunatic who suffers from manic depression and a huge inferority complex becomes President, he often attacks or invades another soverign state for no reason and causes it's population untold suffering? (Often) (Sometimes) (Not at all) (Only in Texas)
I feel compelled to point out that it's a Meerkat in the picture, not a squirrel. Which means that the survey was written (or taken?) in Africa. Or maybe the zoo. I vote for the zoo.
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