Are People REALLY This Stupid?

I just read a news article about 6 nuclear warheads mistakenly flying over the U.S. There was a poll included in the article asking people if they would describe the incident as "alarming." Ok, first - how does a B-52 bomber become "armed with 6 nuclear warheads and flown across several states"? Duhhhrrrrr... don't we have our nuclear warheads clearly marked? Are they not clearly separated from other bombs? How could they possibly have "mistakenly armed" a bomber with nuclear warheads?! That's the BIG STUPID! The other stupid thing is that apparently more than 6600 people (at the time this post was written) are not alarmed by this story - 34% of those who took the poll. REALLY? It does not alarm them that a mistake like this could happen. It does not alarm them that a B-52 armed with SIX NUKES may have flown over their house. It does not alarm them that B-52s are old planes and have had their share of problems. None of this alarms them. FREAKING AMAZING!! The fact that 34% of the people who answered the poll were not alarmed by the story is in itself alarming to me. A full one-third of the people who read the story and took the poll are not intelligent enough to be concerned by what they read in the story. Oh - by the way - the top story on MSNBC tonight was not this, nor the Republican debate. It was "Pavarotti Dies." I am not unsympathetic to those who loved Pavarotti and the wonderful gift he shared with us all, but greater men have died with barely a jot from the press. God help us.

P.S. I think I see how the next "terrorist attack" is going to occur.

Why I Don't Trust Conventional Media News

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Rupert Murdoch is one of the bigger reasons that I do pay any attention to the Big Four media corporation's news outlets. In fact, I consider them to be the Big Three since MSNBC/NBC is so intimately in bed with FOX news. Whatever the situation, when people like Murdoch have control over what news we see and hear and what we don't, it is difficult to believe what comes across the wire. So much of it is twisted, watered down, or simply omitted that there is little reason to put faith in its validity. Murdoch, in particular, is one of the most twisted minds in corporate America. He wants us to still believe the lies that raised support from the American public for the war in Iraq, despite evidence from the current administration's own members that the intelligence was not trustworthy and in many cases, completely false. He wants us to forget about Darfur and the killing and torture of innocent Christian men, women and children there who refuse to convert to Islam. He wants us to believe everything negative about the Democratic candidates for the Presidency of the United States and especially about that dangerous, rogue Republican candidate, Ron Paul who dares to hold true to the original Republican values o small government, non-interventionist foreign policy, upholding the Bill of Rights and being true to the Constitution of the United State of America. Yes, Murdoch is a problem, along with the rest of the corporate media news outlets. If he ends up in control of the Wall Street Journal, I do not have an idea of who we will be able to trust in reference to financial news and information. Let's pray it doesn't happen.