When you consider that the vast majority of this 30% get virtually all their news from Fox, think that global warming is a big hoax, are convinced that the earth is only 6,000 years old, assert that dinosaurs roamed the Garden of Eden, and fervently believe in the desirability of an apocalyptic “End Times” because they themselves will be Raptured into Heaven, it shouldn’t be surprising at all.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

…or the country is sicker than I think…

it isn’t 3/ 10- its’ THREE- and I work with them ALL.

Comment by FTGOP

So, who won the pool?

I agree that it’s daunting. First, I would reinstitute the legal “firewall” between News departments and the corporate boards which run their parent corporations. Also, television “journalists” and pundits shouldn’t have their compensation tied to the profit of the parent company through 401K’s and arbitrary bonuses.

But, overall, public financing of all federal elections would take the money out of the process for the networks. They make billions each election cycle on election ads so there is absolutely no incentive for them to back changing the system. They need to be forced to provide the public with the service they promised when they got our airwaves for free.

I agree with you comment on the coverage of Pres Bush’s many failures.

However, it takes willful blindness -or wanton ignorance, take your pick- to gloss over the overwhelming evidence that all of the challenges Pres Bush faces are largely self-inflicted wounds.

True, the media coverage has been wanting, but the sheer amount of bad news should have -by now- opened the eyes of many in that 30% demographic group.

I simply don’t know anymore what it will take for them to stop supporting this administration. I thought maybe the worsening conditions in Iraq. I was wrong. The increasing death toll of American soldiers. Wrong again. The non-response to Katrina, the torture trials, the ever-expanding government powers (something I believed conservatives were loath to)? Wrong, wrong, and wrong.

If none of the above will bring down his popularity levels, nothing will. What a disheartening picture.

::sigh::

Bush’s Legacy: FAILURE.
Bush’s Base: BLIND.

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yes, I might have understated it a bit.

Getting bogged in a country that posed no threat originally, and still has no significant military capacity, is something only a selected few (incompetents) can accomplish.

Pres Bush has proved himself an elite member of those selected few.

Pretty frigging low.

biggest foreign policy blunders in recent memory, if not in history.

Comment by Gregor Samsa — April 17, 2007 @ 1:01 pm

Gregor Samsa,

The term you are searching for is “of all time.”