Muslim Madness

For the past 4 weeks or so, the press, the liberal press in particular, has been in an absolute tizzy over a Pew Research poll showing that about 20% of Americans think our president is a Muslim. They are beside themselves. How can this be? Obviously this is a conspiracy promoted by right-wing talk radio in order to smear Barrack Hussein Obama. How else can you explain getting it so wrong, right?

Excuse me, have you people ever watched "Jay Walking" on the Tonight Show? That's Jay Leno's segment where he goes out on a street and asks random people everyday questions of fact, usually about government or history. Of course they edit out people who know WTF they are talking about. Everybody can't be that stupid. But the number of people who are that stupid is truly astounding. He doesn't ask them triva style questions like "Who is the Speaker of the House?" or "What's the 22nd Amendment?" No, he asks things like "Who is the Vice-President of the United States?" I once saw him ask that question back in the year 2000. Several people could not come up with even a close guess, and Al Gore had been elected twice and held the office for 8 years at that point. A huge number of people cannot tell you who their representative in congress is, nor can they identify either of their US Senators. And you expect me to be shocked that 20% of the populace think the President is a Muslim? I'm only surprised it's not 30%.