Latest Republican poll shows a refusal to acknowledge facts...

[MindMover]

POLL: MOST REPUBLICANS STILL BELIEVE THAT IRAQ HAD WMD | A new poll conducted by Dartmouth government professor Benjamin Valentino found that 63 percent of Republican respondents still believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the United States invaded in 2003, even though this assertion has been thoroughly debunked. In comparison, only 27 percent of independents and less than 15 percent of Democrats believed in the misinformation. Additionally, 64 percent of Republican respondents believe that President Obama was born in another country. As the Huffington Post’s Dan Froomkin notes, “this latest poll result seems to indicate a refusal — unique to the modern Republican Party — to acknowledge facts.”

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/06/21/504201/poll-republicans-iraq-wmd/

[hifiguy]

1. I swear you can actually see and hear this country

getting dumber every day.

[onethatcares]

2. it was the under

sand f16s that could be flown at any moment to attack the shores of New Joisy.

I was kinda shook up when they found them too, almost didn't go to work that day.

[Tigress DEM]

3. For Proof beyond the polls - check out "An Overheard Conversation at MSP Airport"

Yours is the scholarly proof and the anecdotal goes with it like PB & J.

Tig

[jaysunb]

4. That was an excellent post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002838836

[VPStoltz]

5. Reassuring lies as opposed to inconvenient truths!

[crazylikafox]

6. In other news, study shows that water is wet. n/t

[KatChatter]

7. America = Idiocracy

Now

[99th_Monkey]

11. I love that movie. Wish it had received wider audience.

Like being required viewing in 8th grade

[chknltl]

8. Breaking: 50% of republicans admit that the world is round....

...like a pizza.

[hifiguy]

21. Discworld. And it's turtles all the way down.

ETA:

[rocktivity]

9. If Iraq really had WMDs, especially if we didn't know where they were

bombing is the last thing we would have done duh!


rocktivity

[stupidicus]

10. nothing new there

just the issues have been changed to indict the guilty

this has been the case for decades, at least since the Raygun days and the rise of rightwingnut radio, when and where they worked in concert and tirelessly to destroy the concept of "agreed upon facts" that had prevailed until that point.

Imagine how the modern repub would be seen with only the "big three" holding sway, as opposed to the modern "liberal" media

they no longer have any or can experience shame, and indeed, are quite proud of their abandonment of the 9th Commandment the license to lie behind all that indicates.

[LoisB]

12. I think we should just divide up the country between those who can think and those who can't.

[clang1]

13. It is not people being stupid

When are people going to wake up!

[sakabatou]

14. Willful ignorance.

[Major Hogwash]

15. Proving once again that Rush Limbaugh and Faux Snooze are effective echo chambers.

Telling a lie over and over and over again until the mantra is remembered, despite the facts.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. I run into these guys all the time on YouTube

They often quote Democrats from the 90's claiming Saddam was a danger.

Democrats were trying to keep the sanctions in place at the UN because Saddam had petitioned to have them lifted so he could rebuild his country. He was fully cooperating with the inspectors. Iraq had lost a lot of their youth in the Iran/Iraq war and Saddam found himself the president of a country full of old people, women and children when we invaded.

If you tell a Right Winger America made a mistake they get pissed because they consider this to be God's country so by telling them we invaded a country for no good reason they feel you are claiming God made a mistake.

Funny how these same people think all we do is God's Will but Washington DC and the Federal Government is right out of Satan's ass.

Like I said before: Isn't it funny that they deny having mental problems?

[Marr]

17. It's one of reasons they draw the fundamentalists, I'd say.

These are people who are trained to think that belief in the face of contradictory evidence is a *virtue*. Once an authority figure says a thing, it is so, forever.

[MindMover]

18. Yes and especially an authority figure that ....

handles serpents and sometimes die in the process....

[Tennessee Gal]

19. Thus proving the success of Faux News.

They were never about facts or the truth.

Fair and Balance? What a joke!

[CrispyQ]

20. Their ideology trumps everything.

I could almost feel sorry for them if they weren't such nasty shits.

[Ghost of Huey Long]

22. The corporate media lied over and over to support this, lied in every way possible to help Bush

None of this was possible without the corrupt corporate media using our public airwaves to lie to us.


The same people that think the media is liberal, believe all the bullshit that the media was spewing...

Why would the liberal media cover up that the Niger uranium story was based on a forgery, not just any forgery but it seemed like it was done by a 5th grader. The UN laughed when they saw it and discredited it with a 5 minute google search. They hadn't even used the right letterhead. No, the media just kept repeating it like it was fact. Why hadn't the media done any research? Because they are being paid by the government and corporations to manufacture consent.

And the other BS, UAV's that were gonna get us, Saddam was bringing a suitcase nuke to a backyard near you...all propaganda perpetuated by the media.

The media is taking in quite a bit of money to lie to us, when will people take back our public airwaves? They are directly responsible for all that is bad in this country right now. A Democracy cannot exist without a free press.