Originally Posted by cthulu23

Hmmm, do these people qualify as the "uninformed" voters that some posters railed against so harshly in other threads? Maybe they should be officially disenfranchised, after all
(that was a joke, by the way)

This definitely serves as an example of how trusting a leader implicitly can lead one astray. Imagine what a skewed vision of the world would be produced by actually believing every piece of spin that flies out of a media machine.

On a related note, citizens should always get their information from a variety of sources and not just their favorite biased sources. I'm all for editorials, blogs, talk shows, et al, but they must be balanced against some dissenting and neutral voices lest we begin to believe everything that pundits say.