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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Rush Limbaugh and Family Guy. Hilarious :)

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Limbaugh and Beck cross the Rubicon :-(

David Shenk:

Glenn Beck has said that Obama has "a deep seated hatred for white people," and that the U.S. "is going to come out a fascist state."

Rush Limbaugh has said, "It's the most dangerous time in my life for freedom and liberty in this country...This is statism, totalitarianism versus freedom."

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These are not political statements. These are statements of fear and hatred.

Among others, Joe Klein is terrified:

The intensity of this [is] getting pretty scary...and dangerous? We are heading toward a cliff and the usual brakes of civil discourse are not working. Indeed, the Republicans have the pedal to the metal...I'm usually not one to panic or be overly worried about the state of our country...but I have a sinking feeling about where we're headed now. I hope I'm wrong.

We need to find a way out of this.

I do not watch Faux News, and nor do I listen to Limbaugh radio. So, I had no idea about such horrible statements. How awful! :-(

Monday, September 08, 2008

The not-so-smart American voter

Rick Shenkman tears down myths about the American voters. He writes that "American voters, who are hiring the people who'll run a superpower democracy, are grossly ignorant."

While I have seen many of the facts that he refers to, I have not seen them together at one place, which is why his column is great. A couple of excerpts:

what about conservative talk-radio titan Rush Limbaugh's audience? Surely the ditto-heads are dumb, right?
Actually, according to a survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, Rush's listeners are better educated and "more knowledgeable about politics and social issues" than the average voter.

Voters today are smarter than they used to be.
Actually, by most measures, voters today possess the same level of political knowledge as their parents and grandparents, and in some categories, they score lower. Here's what makes these numbers deplorable -- and, in fact, almost incomprehensible: Education levels are far higher today than they were half a century ago, when social scientists first began surveying voter knowledge about politics. (In 1940, six in ten Americans hadn't made it past the eighth grade.) The moral of this story: Schooling alone doesn't translate into better educated voters.

Young voters are paying a lot of attention to the news.
Again, no.
Despite all the hoopla about young voters -- the great hope of the future! -- only one news story in 2001 drew the attention of a majority of them: 9/11. Some 60 percent of young voters told Pew researchers that they were following news about the attack closely. (Er -- 40 percent weren't?) But none of the other stories that year seemed particularly interesting to them. Only 32 percent said that they followed the news about the anthrax attacks or the economy, then in recession. The capture of Kabul from the Taliban? Just 20 percent.
Six years later, Pew again measured public knowledge of current events and found that the young (aged 18 to 29) "know the least." A majority of young respondents scored in the "low knowledge" category -- the only demographic group to do so.