Say Anything Blog

Yep, listener since the early days.  I’m even more smarter than those netflix guys.

Speaking of the New Yorker; I was reading it the other day in the dentists office.  I was actually impressed by the magazine.  I didn’t find it nearly as biased as the CBS news.

That would explain why they can’t spell LISTENER in the headline ... right?

Doh.

That’s embarrassing.

Oh well.  Like you’ve never had a typo, Blogreader.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I wonder what the criteria was to consider yourself ‘high knowledge’?

I have high knowledge in useless 80’s television and music… does that count?

Dave, I explain the criteria for the knowledge percentage in the last part of the post.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Yeah, sorry about that… I’m practicing a new reading technique and I’m finding that I miss some stuff.  Overall though, I’m learning to read and retain faster.  Great for the web.

I’ve always found that left to right, top to bottom works the best.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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hardy har har

Does anyone know where National Review readers would sit in this poll? Or are we too far right to register on the scale? Hell, I feel smarter just holding the magazine.....

Playboy?

What about Reason Magazine?  That’s my zine of choice.

So a ‘Larry King’ viewer is smarter than a Don Imus viewer ? That’s funny.

Mickey: Figures don’t lie.

The real surprise here to me is that the “Daily Show” viewers rated anywhere near as high as they did.  Thought only morons watched that show.

Hey, I resemble that remark! 

DM: I was actually referring to those “Daily Show” watchers who believe it’s a real news show.

Oh.  Oops.  I guess that makes me a moron.  Actually, I look forward to getting to the Colbert Report on my Tivo first over the Daily Show.  What does that say about the Daily Show?

I think it’s hard to take that “high knowledge” catagory very seriously when they ask only three questions… I guess my beef is using the term “high knowledge” intead of “political knowledge” or something similar…

Spaghetti, you’re probably right.  But how pathetic that even at the highest “High Knowledge” rating in this study only 50% of the people could answer all three questions?

I mean, who doesn’t know who the Sec. of State is?  Or who the President of Russia is?  Or who has the majority in the House?

The readers/listners or Rush and the Weekly Standard and such are people who you’d assumed would be at least basically politicall informed, but this study indicates that most people are clueless.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Who conducted this study?

If you click on the link, Mike Post, you’ll see it’s a Pew Research Center poll