About that caption on a recent BBC piece – “the educated are mainly anti-war” – several readers have pointed out that the poll they relied on had no data on educational level at all. They just made that up to comport with their anti-American condescension. But the polls that do measure such things show nothing of the kind. Here’s how one reader put it:
Take a look at the actual Pew poll results, available as a PDF download here (click on the link “U.S. Needs More International Backing poll” — note the bias inherent in that title as well): If you scroll down to page six in the Acrobat document, you will see a breakdown of war support by various demographic classifications, including by education. The following numbers represent the percent who support military action: college degree, 58 percent; some college, 71 percent; high school degree or less, 71 percent. Only 33% of people with a college education oppose military action (opposition drops to 25% of less at lower levels of education). While the numbers do show that support for the war drops somewhat at higher education levels, they remain predominantly pro-war, and certainly do not support a contention that “the educated are mainly anti-war.” Indeed, even if you accept the presumption that only those with a college degree are “educated,” a very solid majority (58 percent) of this enlightened group support war with Iraq!
The BBC lefties don’t only spin, they lie!
The Dish 