LMNAO!!!!!!!!!!! Some 527 would have that skywritten anywhere I campaigned. But I stand by the words.
<-----Original Message-----> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 10/19/2008 11:11:29 AM >To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com >Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Americans Flunk Simple Three-Question Political Survey > >"Ashamed". Ashamed?! Well, all true-blue, red-blooded Americans love our country >no matter what! We're proud of everything it's ever done, and we have nothing to >apologize for, genocides, lynchings and discrimination included! You sound like >some kind of commie-pinko-socialist like that American-hating Michelle Obama, >and her don't-want-to-wear-a-flag-pin husband of hers! > >Guess you'll never run for Prez now, eh? This quote would hunt you for eternity >if so! :) > >-------------- Original message -------------- >From: "Martin Baxter" > >I feel you here, Keith. Makes me ashamed to be American, almost. > > >-----Original Message-----> >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: 10/18/2008 10:48:54 AM >>To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com >>Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Americans Flunk Simple Three-Question Political >Survey >> >>I don't know what's most disturbing: that this is considered to be an accurate >>test of political knowledge, that so few people--even among the supposedly best >>informed groups--can name the leader of our most staunch political ally, or that >>*anyone* who can breath and form a sentence could possibly miss the first two >>questions! Or, the sad fact that many of the people who couldn't name Gordon >>Brown would probably dismiss the question as an irrelevant fact about a foreign >>country, important only to the intellectual elite? >>Wow, remember when you were in grade school and had to learn all fif ty sta tes >>and their capitals? I remember being in junior high, and embarrassed because a >>kid in my class got a higher score on an impromptu quiz on current events than I >>did. The question that stumped me was to name the last three countries then >>President Carter had recently visited. I felt there was no excuse for not >>knowing the answer, for all that I was 13 years old! But nowadays people >>celebrate the willful ignorance of Bush and Palin as the stuff of "real >>Americans", the quality of people with whom they'd like to have a beer. >>Somewhere, the "Founding Fathers" are weeping... >>******************************* >>http://www.livescience.com/culture/081015-political-news.html >> >>livescience.com - Wed Oct 15, 5:25 pm ET >>Some news audiences are more politically savvy than others, according to a new >>poll, with readers of The New Yorker and similar high-bro w maga zines being the >>most knowledgeable. >>The survey, conducted between April 30 and June 1 by the Pew Research Center for >>the People the Press, measured the political knowledge of 3,612 U.S. adults. >>Participants were asked to name the controlling party of the U.S. House of >>Representatives, the U.S. secretary of state and Great Britain's prime minister. >>Overall, just 18 percent of participants answered all three questions correctly. >>More than 50 percent of Americans knew that the Democrats have a majority in the >>House, while 42 percent could identify the secretary of state (Condoleezza >>Rice). Less than 30 percent could name the prime minister of Great Britain >>(Gordon Brown). >>Perfect scores >>The best-informed news audiences crossed the ideological spectrum. Nearly half >>of regular readers of The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Harper's Magazine >>answered all three political knowledge que stions correctly. >>A perfect score was obtained by 44 percent of regular listeners of National >>Public Radio (NPR), 43 percent of regular viewers of MSNBC's "Hardball with >>Chris Matthews" and 42 percent of the Fox News Channel's "Hannity Colmes" >>audience. Thirty-four percent of "The Colbert Report" audience and 30 percent of >>"The Daily Show" audience got all three questions correct. >>While most news audiences knew that Democrats have a majority in the House, >>participants struggled to correctly name the current British prime minister. >>Just four news audiences had a majority who correctly identified Gordon, >>including regular readers of The New Yorker and similar magazines such as The >>Atlantic, regular NPR listeners, regular readers of political magazines, such as >>The Weekly Standard and The New Republic, and regular viewers of "Hardball." >>Just 44 percent of BBC viewers identified the prime minister c orrect ly. >>Here's a detailed breakdown of the percentage of individuals answering each of >>the three questions correctly from the different news audiences: >>The New Yorker/Atlantic: 71 percent (correctly identified Democrats as the >>majority in the House), 71 percent (correctly identified Condeleeza Rice), 59 >>percent (correctly identified Gordon Brown) >>NPR: 73 percent, 72 percent, 57percent >>Hannity Colmes: 84 percent, 73 percent, 49 percent >>Rush Limbaugh: 83 percent, 71 percent, 41 percent >>Colbert Report: 73 percent, 65 percent, 49 percent >>Daily Show: 65 percent, 48 percent, 36 percent >>NewsHour: 66 percent, 52 percent, 47 percent >>O'Reilly Factor: 70 percent, 60 percent, 41 percent >>C-SPAN: 63 percent, 59 percent, 35 percent >>Letterman/Leno: 51 percent, 42 percent, 31 percent >>CNN: 59 percent, 48 percent, 29 percent >>National Enquirer: 44 percent, 32 percent, 22 perce nt >>Education factor >>In general, well-educated news audiences scored high on political knowledge. 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