RE: A Little Man Takes on Wal-Mart

And speaking of getting paid by the unions, it’s probably not an entirely inexplicable omission that Krugman didn’t mention the recent Zogby poll that “found that 56 percent of American adults agreed with the statement — ‘Wal-Mart was bad for America.’” That’s possibly because Krugman didn’t want to deal with the fact that Zogby was paid by union-backed Wake Up Wal-Mart to do the poll (and John Zogby himself has been paid in the past to appear as an expert witness on behalf of plaintiffs suing Wal-Mart). The Pew Foundation, presumably not on the take from the unions, just found in a similar poll that 64 percent of Americans believe Wal-Mart is “Good … For the country.”

Someone posted this poll a while back on the BP. I mentioned at the time that Zogby's polls were garbage. I now rest my case. The war on Wal-Mart is a founded on phony premises, promoted emotionally by ignorant surrogates, and pursued in the shadows by evil and greedy unions who care only about power and wealth while claiming to work for "the common man."