Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 07, 2010
November 06, 2010
November 08, 2010
Transcript:
Roland: President BUsh, you really make your new book come alive... I feel like I've read it! Mr. President, let's talk about the big magilla - your decision to invade Iraq. George W. Bush: Sure... sure... see, on the pro-war on the side of the coin, we had all this intel that Dick Cheney had hand-cherry-picked... plus the dictator had tried to kill my daddy! But on the defeatist side of the coin... most of the world was protesting and siding with the evildoers, and we didn't know what we didn't know about dead-enders. Plus, of course, there was the potential loss of U.S. life. Roland: Must have been an agonizing decision, sir. Bush: Nah, it was another no-brainer. Roland: Well, that was going to be my next question...
What bothers me, Nemesys, is all those who made thier choice based on false information.
1) 60% of Americans think Obama has raised their taxes, when they actually got a tax cut. 2) A majority of Americans think the TARP money is gone, when it looks as if we will make it all back with a profit.
3) It is a widely-held veiw that the stimulus did nothing, while the knowledgable are debating whether the number of jobs created and saved is 2.5 or 3.5 million, or somewhere between.
Blame for the knowledge gap should rest primarily with those who remain uniformed despite evidence that is easy to find, if not always easy to understand, but Fox is certainly part of the problem.