Two guys and a poll walk into a bar

Luckily you don't come here for the jokes, because that set up would be heading for one monumentally disappointing punchline.

To the two guys who wrote this in the Wall Street Journal: When you write one near fact and one impossible to substantiate opinion as fact early on in your article, you ruin my palette. Anything else you write is tainted by your illegitimate starting point. To highlight my point:

"The election held last Friday was a carefully controlled process that allowed only candidates approved by religious authorities to seek office. Nonetheless, it seems clear that many and likely most Iranians cast votes for challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi and against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."

"... carefully controlled process..." well, sort of. Not so "carefully controlled" that street protests, clashes with authorities and international outrage were the result.

"... seems clear that many and most likely most Iranians cast votes for challenger..." No! How can you reasonably arrive at that conclusion? If you think the election was a fraud, you have no data to support anything. If you take the actions of the protesters to be representative of the vote, then what about the non-protesters? You've decided who they voted for!/? If 51% of Iran's population was in the streets saying they voted for Mousavi, only then can you make that claim. Please please please, present facts and argue their relevance. Don't arrive at and support a position based on half-truths and opinion... that's my bread and butter as a blogger, and I won’t give it up without a fight.

CNN's poll question today: Should people on the government's terrorist watchlist be allowed to buy guns? Yes or no. 11% say yes. As a blogger, I can reasonably conclude that 11% of respondents are gun-buying terrorists. Right? Hmmmmm, I'd rather not know what the yeses are thinking.

So, two guys and a CNN Poll walk into a bar. The bartender asks, "What can I do for you?". Guy number one says "I'd like a Miller Lite on draft if you've got it." Guy number two says, "Budweiser in a bottle, and some pretzels or nuts." The CNN Poll asks the bartender "Is the Obama administration doing enough to promote green energy? Yes or no." The bartender politely asks the CNN Poll to leave. It leaves quietly and unscientifically. After a few minutes, guy one asks, "Where'd Poll go?" Guy two grumbles before he takes in the last of his Bud, "How should I know? I never voted for him." Guy one looks up, more than a little confused, "What does that mean?" Guy two, mouth full of peanuts "Ah, nevermind."

THE END

And that, for those that didn't already know, is why I don't write or tell jokes.