Updated: Chris Matthews Highlighted Faulty Daily Kos/Research 2000 Poll on Hardball

Updated: Chris Matthews Highlighted Faulty Daily Kos/Research 2000 Poll on Hardball:

With the news that Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas is suing the polling group Research 2000 for providing 'bunk' results that his Web site published, the question has to be asked: Will those figures in the media who've advanced Daily Kos poll results, like MSNBC's Hardball host Chris Matthews, let their viewers know of the suspect data? Back on the February 2, 2010 edition of Hardball, Matthews as part of his Sideshow segment, alerted viewers to the results of 'a wild new poll of Republicans' that showed 58 percent of them didn't believe or weren't sure that Barack Obama was born in the U.S. and 64 percent of GOPers agreed or weren't sure that the President was a 'racist who hates white people.' Matthews granted the poll so much credence he cited Research 2000's discovery that 68 percent of its Republican respondents wanted Obama impeached as that day's 'Big Number.'"