Gosh, We're Stupid

I can't believe how stupid we are here in the U.S, how gullible we are to believe this stuff.

• 64 percent believe that Saddam Hussein had strong links to Al Qaeda (up slightly from 62% in November).


Saddam Hussein had absolutely no ties to Al Qaeda


• 47 percent believe that Saddam Hussein helped plan and support the hijackers who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001 (up six percentage points from November).


Saddam Hussein had no part in the 9/11 Attacks.


• 44 percent actually believe that several of the hijackers who attacked the U.S. on September 11 were Iraqis (up significantly from 37% in November).


Not one of the hijackers was Iraqi.


• 36 percent believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded (down slightly from 38% in November).


No WMDs were found, and we've stopped searching for them.

How did this happen???

For three hours every day Rush tells people to ignore traditional news sources and listen only to him and Fox News. For three hours every day he tells people that everything bad is because of Liberals and Democrats and women, while everything good is because of the far right. Over and over again he repeats one form or another of the Right’s line that Democrats and Liberals hate America and are on the side of the terrorists. It is a simple, basic fact of human nature that repetition works, and for three hours every single day the far-right’s expert-crafted, focus-group-tested, poll-verified, persuasion-machine message is repeated across America to millions and millions of believers.

Oh, that's how it happened...