Daily Howler - June 3, 2005

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FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2005

NEWSWEEK DELIVERS: We’ve continued to marvel here as liberals keep carrying water for Newsweek. Indeed, on last Sunday’s Chris Matthews Show, the magazine’s foppish Howard Fineman brought us right out of our old beanbag chairs! The group was discussing Bush’s opposition to the funding of stem cell research:

MATTHEWS (5/30/05): Let’s take a look at where the country stands on this. We’ve got a CBS poll at hand: 58 percent support medical research using embryonic stem cell research. 31 percent oppose it. If you just look at Republicans, half the Republicans polled—50 percent—support stem cell research. 39 percent oppose it. Howard, what’s that say?

Let’s make sure you understand the numbers that appeared on the screen. Even Republicans favor stem cell research, by an 11-point margin, the poll said. But Fineman is an experienced scribe.