Last Wednesday, Bill O'Reilly and Karl Rove spent five minutes of airtime claiming that the Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll on the crazy beliefs of Republican voters was fraudulent.
"The poll is a fraud," O'Reilly said, "as is the website."
"Daily Kos is trying to make an argument," Rove said, "and the argument falls flat on its face when you begin to look inside the numbers and you look at the methodology."
Flash forward to yesterday, and on Fox News Sunday -- the network's flagship broadcast -- Chris Wallace asked Sarah Palin whether she would run for president, pointing out that a recent poll showed her as the frontrunner among Republican voters.
Which poll was Wallace citing? You guessed it: none other than the Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of Republicans derided just days earlier as a "fraud" by O'Reilly and Rove.
Of course, Wallace didn't actually credit Daily Kos as the media organization that commissioned the poll (which was conducted by Research 2000). But if even Chris Wallace and Fox News Sunday recognize that this poll was a scientific survey, isn't it about time for O'Reilly and Rove to admit that they know our poll was accurate? Truth is, they're just worried that people will kind out what a bunch of loons the modern Republican Party has become.