Well, Median has published an opinion poll claiming that Tisza is leading Fidesz by 12 percentage points. Now, however, its CEO has started to backpedal, saying that these are not real data yet and that they cannot be treated as forecasts. It is possible that Endre Hann himself is embarrassed that they fabricated such a result, showing a Tisza lead that simply does not exist.
According to the opinion polls commissioned by us and those we consider credible, Fidesz–KDNP holds a confident and clear lead. Left-leaning pollsters are also trying to make opposition voters even more enthusiastic and to convince them that there is hope for a change of government. They are doing everything they can to install a Brussels puppet government in Hungary, while we are doing everything we can to protect Hungary from this.
Fortunately, the sober majority of Hungarian people see clearly that if a puppet government comes to power, war will come, migrants will come, and Hungarian families’ money and pensions will be sent to Ukraine. We, on the other hand, promise exactly the opposite: peace, calm, and security.
🎯 Core Function (not a hidden agenda)
The text is not meant to evaluate the Median poll, but to:
- delegitimize unfavorable data,
- morally discredit the source of the data,
- trigger emotional panic,
- and force the audience into a binary “us or them” choice.
1️⃣ Personalized discrediting (ad hominem)
“It is possible that Endre Hann himself is ashamed that they fabricated such a blatant lie…”
🔹 Technique: personal attack
🔹 Goal:
- not to challenge the methodology,
- not the sample,
- not the questions,
but the person.
👉 A classic propaganda move: if the data are bad, then the data provider must be evil or dishonest.
📌 Note: no specific lie is ever identified.
2️⃣ “This isn’t even data” – retrospective relativization
“These are not real data yet, they cannot be considered forecasts.”
🔹 Technique: retroactive redefinition
🔹 Effect:
- when favorable: opinion poll = reality
- when unfavorable: opinion poll = speculation
👉 This is a double standard, not analysis.
3️⃣ Reference to one’s own “secret” measurements
“According to the credible opinion polls commissioned by us and known to us…”
🔹 Technique: appeal to authoritarian authority
🔹 Trick:
- no source
- no publication
- no verifiability
👉 “Believe it because we say so.”
This is not data, but a power claim.
4️⃣ Attribution of intent (assuming bad faith)
“They are trying to make opposition voters more enthusiastic…”
🔹 Technique: motivation manipulation
🔹 Goal:
- not whether the result is true or false,
- but why it is being published.
👉 Classic propaganda logic:
truth does not matter, only the intention we ascribe to the other side.
5️⃣ Brussels = puppet government = anti-nationalism
“…to bring a Brussels puppet government to power…”
🔹 Technique: enemy-image chaining
🔹 Narrative:
Brussels → puppet government → against Hungary
👉 No evidence, only associative linkage.
6️⃣ Apocalyptic future vision (fear package)
“…then war will come, migrants will come, pensions will be sent to Ukraine…”
🔹 Technique: catastrophe stacking
🔹 Effect:
- fear
- existential panic
- shutdown of rational thinking
👉 No date, no decision, no legal act is mentioned.
This is not a forecast, but a threatening fairy tale.
7️⃣ False dichotomy (only two options exist)
“We promise peace, calm, and security.”
🔹 Technique: black-and-white framing
🔹 Message:
- us = peace
- them = war
👉 No middle ground, no debate, no alternative.
🧠 Summary – what is really happening?
This text:
❌ does not refute
❌ does not analyze
❌ does not prove
✔️ manufactures emotion
✔️ generates fear
✔️ demands loyalty