{"id":645,"date":"2006-08-16T02:12:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T02:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/645"},"modified":"2006-08-16T02:12:29","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T02:12:29","slug":"now-86-reality-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/645","title":{"rendered":"Now 86% Reality Free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to recent polls, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrisinteractive.com\/harris_poll\/index.asp?PID=684\">50% of Americans believe<\/a> that weapons of mass destruction were actually found in Iraq, and at least back in December <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrisinteractive.com\/harris_poll\/index.asp?PID=623\">24% of Americans believed that several of the hijackers who attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11 were Iraqis<\/a>. And a presumably different <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/911poll\">36% of Americans believe<\/a> it is either <i>&#8220;very likely&#8221;<\/i> or <i>&#8220;somewhat likely&#8221;<\/i> that federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or deliberately took no action to stop them, and another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/911poll\">16% of Americas speculate that the World Trade Center collapsed because of government-planted explosives<\/a> rather than as a result of burning jet fuel.<\/p>\n<p>So on the right we have fundamental ignorance about the facts (no doubt encouraged by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060806\/ap_on_re_us\/iraq_believing_wmd;_ylt=IDIOTS;_ylu=FOOLS\">scurrilous politicians<\/a>) and on the left there&#8217;s a rising belief in ill-supported conspiracy theories (no doubt fanned by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loosechange911.com\/\">Loose Change<\/a> video). To the remaining 14%, please hang in there \u2014 you&#8217;re all we&#8217;ve got left in an increasingly reality-free nation.<\/p>\n<p>(Links via <a href=\"http:\/\/onthemedia.org\/transcripts\/transcripts_081106_c.html\">On The Media<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to recent polls, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrisinteractive.com\/harris_poll\/index.asp?PID=684\">50% of Americans believe<\/a> that weapons of mass destruction were actually found in Iraq, and at least back in December <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrisinteractive.com\/harris_poll\/index.asp?PID=623\">24% of Americans believed that several of the hijackers who attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11 were Iraqis<\/a>. And a presumably different <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/911poll\">36% of Americans believe<\/a> it is either <i>&#8220;very likely&#8221;<\/i> or <i>&#8220;somewhat likely&#8221;<\/i> that federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or deliberately took no action to stop them, and another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/911poll\">16% of Americas speculate that the World Trade Center collapsed because of government-planted explosives<\/a> rather than as a result of burning jet fuel.<\/p>\n<p>So on the right we have fundamental ignorance about the facts (no doubt encouraged by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060806\/ap_on_re_us\/iraq_believing_wmd;_ylt=IDIOTS;_ylu=FOOLS\">scurrilous politicians<\/a>) and on the left there&#8217;s a rising belief in ill-supported conspiracy theories (no doubt fanned by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loosechange911.com\/\">Loose Change<\/a> video). To the remaining 14%, please hang in there \u2014 you&#8217;re all we&#8217;ve got left in an increasingly reality-free nation.<\/p>\n<p>(Links via <a href=\"http:\/\/onthemedia.org\/transcripts\/transcripts_081106_c.html\">On The Media<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}