Large numbers of Americans still believe in Saddam-9/11 link in this Newsweek poll: "Even today, more than four years into the war in Iraq, as many as four in ten Americans (41 percent) still believe Saddam Hussein’s regime was directly involved in financing, planning or carrying out the terrorist attacks on 9/11, even though no evidence has surfaced to support a connection. A majority of Americans were similarly unable to pick Saudi Arabia in a multiple-choice question about the country where most of the 9/11 hijackers were born. Just 43 percent got it right -- and a full 20 percent thought most came from Iraq."
The results of the survey are here. They are shocking and disgusting. The assclown of the week goes to the American people, us. We are a bunch of idiots. It is certainly partly the media's fault, but the information is there if we want it. We simply believe what we want to believe. We are a mass of people living in denial repressing truth because of an authoritarian government that no longer represents the people. What do we do? We believe what they tell us though the truth stares us in the face.
Update: Maybe it is the media's fault? Michael Moore is cancelled Wednesday night on CNN's Larry King because Paris Hilton has agreed to an interview. CNN has cancelled an interview with a filmmaker about his film Sicko and America's broken health care system because of an "incarcerated socialite" who served time in prison because of her own selfish behavior? A report I heard is the Today show was offering 1 million dollars for the interview. Did CNN pay more? CNN has not rescheduled the interview with Moore. Unbelievable.
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If the American people are ignorant, then they have the government they want -- one that fosters even more ignorance. Lenin once said that a people who care little for politics will easily be controlled by it. So true. We have gotten what we deserve for our ignorance and greater knowledge of American idol winners than world geography, history or sociology.
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