An investigation has revealed that escaped mental patient and constant “I’m sick, so feel sorry for me” whiner Mark Shannon of OKC’s KTOK Hate Radio has been rigging polls he conducts on his site at markshannon.com.

I first got suspicious when the polls he runs would not give any results until Shannon was good and ready to provide them. Typically, web polls generate instant results that you can see.  So, over a period of several weeks I tested the polls out.

Generally, the polls are about a hot button issue like MAPS, healthcare, and so on. They change every few days. The results are always in huge favor of the position Shannon takes on them, which since most of his readers are rightwing whackjobs is to be expected. However, whenever I chose a position in the poll contrary to Shannon’s beliefs, several times, during separate tests, I would receive a “The page cannot be found” page after clicking. I’d later click the answer he wants to hear (today it’s about Muslims in the military) and would get a “Thanks for your vote. Results soon.”  Over the test period using different computers with cleared caches and different IP addresses, it became ever clearer that the polls were rigged.

That’s when I brought in a pro.

I had a techie friend evaluate the “poll” and website and he came to the conclusion that there’s not even a poll there. It appears Shannon just asks a question, then has linked responses that don’t register votes, but just takes you to a page he made up confirming entries. Sometimes he forgets to link the answers he doesn’t want made or fails to create a webpage for the response. There’s no poll form, just the links to pages.

Click this Ban altogether. I took no poll…just copied and used Shannon’s very own link from where he asks the poll question. There is no poll. My friend was right. So, not only is the poll rigged, but it doesn’t even actually exist to begin with. (Note: That link can change at anytime.)

Below is a screen shot of Shannon’s results for one recent poll. Notice how the results are just typed out and not what you’d see from an authentic web poll?

He might claim that he does something as amateur as count the number of visitors to each page in order to come up with final results. That in itself would invalidate everything, a person could visit the page as many times as they wish and of course in many cases the page for a dissenting vote doesn’t even come up, so how would he be able to determine the visitors to that page? He makes up the numbers. There’s no other rational conclusion. 

Shannon is merely inventing poll numbers in order to validate his personal beliefs. He then goes and promotes those false results to listeners of KTOK. He’ll come out tomorrow with results on KTOK that claim the people he polled wants Muslims banned from the military. Well, having been caught he might wish to avoid doing so now.

Four out of five dentists polled say Mark Shannon is one dishonest mother fucker.

This is shady without measure. Mr. Teabag is as bad at rigging polls as that group that came out with false data about Oklahoma students not measuring up to a civics test.  Shannon, who has been busted time and again making racist and bigoted remarks, may be able to get his bullshit non-existent polls past his usual low-brow fans, but not everyone. Rep. Sally Kern used to run real polls on her website, geared for the batshit crazies too, but at least they were real polls. When she didn’t get the results she wanted, she shut down the polls and went home. But at least she didn’t try to rig the results.

Just as disreputable is ‘Banned from Chuck E. Cheese for Life’ Reid Mullins, who works at the hate desk of KTOK with Shannon. Both need to be canned and I am sure with Mullins at least it’s just a matter of time before he’s caught with some unseemly images. Shannon, however, is probably in the clear for passing on fraudulent polls to the listeners, as at KTOK that isn’t considered a bad thing.