A Nation of Know-Nothings?
Take a look at Tuesday night’s box score in the baseball game between New York and Toronto. The Yankees won, 11-5. Now look at the weather summary, showing a high of 71 for New York. The score and temperature are not subject to debate.
Yet a president’s birthday or whether he was even in the White House on the day TARP was passed are apparently open questions. A growing segment of the party poised to take control of Congress has bought into denial of the basic truths of Barack Obama’s life. What’s more, this astonishing level of willful ignorance has come about largely by design, and has been aided by a press afraid to call out the primary architects of the lies.
People will believe what they want to believe irrespective of the facts that are merely inconvenient. Even in 2010, a sizeable percentage of the population believes that the Sun revolves around the Earth. So how can you expect a black President to convince them that he is a Christian and a citizen?
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“A Nation of Know-Nothings?” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=3626] was published Thursday, August 26th, 2010 at 10:00 am by Patrix, filed under Asides. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.
