“You can waste your time on the little lies, but Americans have shown they are even more gullible when you hit them with the whoppers.”
There was in interesting piece in the Strib this morning, from the Associated Press, noting that half of all Americans still believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. That proportion has actually increased from about a third who believed the administration’s fiction a year ago.
So, you ask yourself: despite all the evidence and reporting to the contrary, why are Americans seemingly getting even stupider?
One could surmise that those who believe the world was created in six days about 6000 years ago could be made to believe anything, of course. One could also suggest that it’s possible that some of us just haven’t progressed far enough along the evolutionary track to have discerned the difference between fact and fable–whether we’re talking about quantum mechanics or Donald Rumsfeld’s pronoucements.
Speaking of Rumsfeld, who testified last week before Congress that he’d never been “overly optimistic” about Iraq, well here’s another swamp we’d like to sell you.
Isn’t it great we have a press that actually does research to get the facts, rather than the lazy he said/she said crap that passes for reporting these days.
Too bad nobody’s reading newspapers anymore.
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