Posts tagged “public opinion”

Depressing statistics from Bob Harris reveal that huge swaths of American adults are dangerously misinformed, fundamentalist, or just plain stupid. Not uniquely American problems, really. Except the Elvis truthers. Obviously he's still alive.

We don't need government propaganda, we're deluded enough on our own. A third of Americans think we found WMDs in Iraq, 22% think Saddam used them during the war, and before the invasion, half believed Iraqis were among the 9/11 hijackers. None of this is true.