The notoriously liberal news publisher BuzzFeed embarrassed itself mightily this week after it published a presidential preference poll, only to find out later that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump had won it.
Rather than just suck it up, however, editors at the site chose to publish a hilarious disclaimer warning readers that the poll results, which showed Trump winning with 14.6 million votes over Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton’s 70,800 votes, were inaccurate.
“This poll no longer accurately reflects the opinions of real people,” they wrote. “Please remember to vote in the upcoming election.”
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That was pathetic.
Perhaps the poll had indeed been hijacked, but the editors offered zero evidence to prove this. They simply stated that the poll was inaccurate, expecting their readers to automatically believe them — kind of like how they expected readers to believe the garbage they frequently published about Trump.
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The poll was by no means scientific, but the fact that “BuzzFeed felt it was totally necessary to put an update right above the ‘poll,’ saying it ‘no longer accurately reflects the opinions of real people'” was hilarious, as was accurately noted by MRCTV.
It’s one thing to question the validity of another website’s polls; it’s another altogether to do the very same to your own poll. How embarrassing.
Mind you, it fit perfectly with BuzzFeed’s overall theme of whiny petulance and false narratives. This was the same website that last month insinuated that Trump’s election to the White House could lead to mass lynchings, as reported by NewsBusters.
As unlikely as such a scenario might be, it wasn’t that much more unlikely than BuzzFeed ever transforming itself from a joke website frequented by millennial snowflakes to a professional one read by grown men and women.
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