Immigration Law

ZOGBY POLLS FOR HATE GROUP

By Greg Siskind

Zogby International used to be considered one of the more reliable polling organizations in the US. But the firm has come under considerable fire of late for who it accepts money from and the nature of the polling work it is doing for these groups. Earlier this week, the firm drew fire for what appears to be "push polling" conducted for an extreme right wing web site.

Today we learn that FAIR - the anti-immigrant group that has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center - has commissioned its own poll from Zogby which - shocking - purports to show that the American public agrees with FAIR's extreme views. The SPL, incidentally, is one of the nation's most respected organizations that monitors the activities of hate groups.

Zogby owes the public an explanation.

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on November 20, 2008 (boomark / email).