Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
That's exactly what they're saying.
I didn't deny it, so it must be true.
Oh, well, typical news business.
Is this it?
Is this it for Oprah today?
Or was it yesterday?
Oprah's last show.
The earth is still turning.
Yeah, let's see.
Okay, so our final show, Oprah, the Oprah final show was yesterday.
So she's gone now from ABC.
She's gone from over-the-air network TV and off to her own network, which means that she'll probably never be heard from again.
That own network, OW, is not gone.
I mean, look, it's not doing anything now.
It really isn't doing anything now.
According to reports, at the peak of the Oprah's popularity, her show had 40 million weekly viewers.
Now, that's not bad.
That's almost as many as we have every day here.
So our hats off to the Oprah.
40 million viewers a week.
Not bad.
Greetings, my friends.
How are you?
We're here serving humanity.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address El Rushmo at EIBnet.com.
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That's true.
Supreme Court has sustained.
This is an AP story.
This is a weird word to use.
The Supreme Court has sustained Arizona's law that penalizes businesses for hiring workers who are in the U.S. illegally, rejecting arguments that states have no role in immigration matters.
It's a five to three vote.
The court said today, federal immigration law gives states the authority to impose sanctions on employers who hire unauthorized workers.
The decision upholding the validity of a 2007 law comes as the state is appealing a ruling that blocked key components of a second, more controversial Arizona immigration enforcement law.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, said that the Arizona's employer sanctions law falls well within the confines of the authority of Congress to choose to leave to the states.
Justices Breyer, Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor, all Democrat appointees dissented.
The fourth Democrat appointee, Elena Kagan, didn't participate in the case because she worked on it while serving as Obama's solicitor general.
There's talk.
She might have to recuse herself from practically everything for the next three or four years, particularly healthcare.
But that's not in Wisconsin, this same county judge, this same county judge, what is her name?
Sumi?
Mary Ann Sumi, S-U-M-I, has struck down a law taking away nearly all collective bargaining rights from most state workers.
And again, this is not on the merits of the law.
This is the Minnesota or the Wisconsin governor basically eliminating collective bargaining rights.
She says you can't eliminate collective bargaining rights because you violated the open meetings law.
So once again, she's rendered the law void, which was expected.
She's who she is.
It's a county administrative judge.
And so now the state Supreme Court has scheduled arguments June 6th to determine whether or not it will take the same case.
Now, the lawmakers in Wisconsin could pass the law again in order to nullify open meeting concerns that led to the judge's ruling.
But if my memory on this is correct, they didn't violate it.
This is just the judge being an activist liberal judge.
They gave plenty of notice that this meeting was going to take place.
They gave plenty of notice that all these meetings are going to take place.
This is just BS.
I mean, plain and simple.
So I saw Snurdy this year.
Are you still ticked off?
Yeah.
I said, what?
Same thing?
Yeah, Medicare.
Still ticked off about Medicare.
And I said, bottom line is, Rush, if we can ever bust up these entitlements, we can end the Democrat Party.
And that's true.
If you ever bust up the entitlements, you will end the Democrat Party.
There's no question.
There is a story today, Hill.com.
Anxious GOP vows to improve Medicare message after New York lost.
After a crushing defeat in a New York special election, House Republican lawmakers defended their vote to reform Medicare, but grumbled that their leaders must do a better job of messaging.
Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma, one of many Republicans blaming Jane Corwin's loss on the presence of a phony Tea Party candidate, said, if we'll just stay with our argument, do a better job of developing it, we'll be fine.
This story says that the defeat of Corwin was a stunning blow in what had been a reliable Republican district won less than a year ago by GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Palladino.
Democrats credited Kathy Hochul's victory to a flood of ads targeting Corwin for supporting the Republican budget authored by Paul Ryan.
That's not what happened.
Now, the Democrats would love for you to think that Medicare reform lost, but it didn't.
Dirty Tricks won.
Purinson, you can say that the Republican message was weak, and it probably was.
The Republicans are reluctant to say anything, hoping that the less they say, the better off they'll be.
Political correctness and so forth, worried about offending somebody.
But they do have to do some work on the messaging.
Let's go to some Medicare soundbites here.
Now, this is fascinating.
Bill Clinton, last night, this is on the ABC's world news tonight behind the scenes at Pete Peterson's foundation at 2011 fiscal summit.
Peter G. Peterson, he was the, I think it was Treasury Secretary for Nixon.
I've met Pete Peterson.
His wife is Joan Gans Cooney, who at the children's workshop, Sesame Street, and all that.
And I've met him.
He's nice.
He's a nice guy.
Rhino, moderate Republican guy, but he is a deficit hawk.
He's one of these.
He was with Warren Rudman, you know, on that effort here to rein in the out-of-control federal debt.
Well, no, they had a, after Graham Rudman was over, they had a, they put up the billboards with the rolling deficit clock stuff.
But, I mean, they had an organization, 501c3 or something.
I forget the name of it.
But anyway, they're deficit hawks.
And the Peter G. Peterson Foundation had their 2011 fiscal summit, which means party.
And former President Bill Clinton was there along with Paul Ryan.
And backstage, off camera, Clinton and Ryan had this exchange about what happened in New York 26.
I'm glad we won this race in New York.
But I hope the Democrats don't use it as an excuse to do nothing.
You don't want to talk about it.
Yeah, I'll give you talking great thanks.
Now, you probably couldn't hear that too well.
Let me tell you what happened there.
They're backstage at the Peter G. Peterson party, disguised as a fundraiser.
Clinton is there with Paul Ryan.
Clinton says, hey, you know, I'm glad we won this race in New York, but I hope the Democrats don't use this excuse to do nothing.
You ever want to talk about it?
And Ryan says, yeah, yeah, I'll give you call great thanks.
Snurdley also asks, what's Clinton doing?
He wants credit.
Clinton, don't forget, he was way back.
He tried to take on Medicare reform.
He thinks Ryan's going somewhere with it.
What this means is that Clinton thinks Ryan's going somewhere.
And when Ryan gets there, Clinton wants to be on the train.
So behind the scenes, when they don't know the microphone's live, Clinton says, hey, look, pal, I'm glad my party won that race, but I hope the Democrats don't use this excuse to do nothing if you ever want to talk about it.
And Clinton offering his assistance.
Now, let's move forward on camera.
Clinton is aware he's on camera and throws Ryan under the bus.
I just think his Medicare proposal is on the merits wrong.
What in all probability will happen, particularly if they dismantle some of these other cost controls, is that medical costs will continue to go up and older people will use less, get sicker and die quicker, or they will be poorer because they'll have to spend so much of their money on health care.
Crying out, wow, this is going to happen anyway.
It's going to happen.
It happens with Obamacare.
Ryan's plan actually does something about this.
But anyway, here's the point.
I don't want to get sidetracked here.
Off camera.
Now, we don't know how sincere he's being.
And I know you have to take into account it's Bill Clinton.
Understand that.
But off camera, hey, bud.
Hey, hey.
Look, I got to tell you, I'm glad we won that election, but you ever want to talk about this?
Because I'm serious.
You know, we got this, this got to get fixed.
Just like we fixed Haiti, whatever else we fixed, it got to get fixed.
So he's offering Ryan, and Ryan's okay, now go public, go public.
I think this thing sucks.
That's a horrible proposal on the marriage.
It's totally.
Behind the scenes, a different story.
And see, this, the kind of stuff that just grates on people.
Why couldn't the stuff that goes on off camera actually happen on camera?
Why?
Nothing is real.
Nothing is real.
All these people clamoring for everybody to get along and bipartisanship.
Well, there it is.
It happened off camera when they thought nobody was watching.
When they thought nobody, when Clinton thought nobody was listening, there was your bipartisanship.
There was your mutual adoration of love society.
Cameras go on.
And who was it that turned partisan?
Slick Willie, Der Schlieckmeister, Wilhelm Jefferson Blythe Clinton.
Even at that, though, the same set of remarks of the Pete Peterson Party, the foundation of the fiscal summit, Clinton did try to warn the Democrats.
I'm afraid that the Democrats will draw the conclusion that because Congressman Ryan's proposal, I think, is not the best one, that we shouldn't do anything.
And I completely disagree with that.
Yeah, well, I'll tell you something, Mr. President.
Your party isn't doing Diddley Squad about anything.
There's no budget.
There's no Medicare proposal.
Party, they're doing nothing.
The Democrats are doing nothing, and they have decided they've been doing nothing for months now.
They don't have a budget.
I don't know to what extent they're paying a price for this, the general public, but they're not doing anything.
They have clearly adopted, they think that the Republicans are going to tackle entitlement reform, and that's going to kill them.
And so, the Democrat philosophy here, and it's tried and true, when your opponents committing suicide, get out of the way.
Let it happen.
And that's what they think is happening here, which is why I, on this program yesterday, demanded that somebody stand up in the face of the aftermath of New York 26 and all this other stuff.
Somebody defend Ryan budget and the proposal on Medicare.
Somebody stand as a great opportunity for leadership.
Still with ABC's world news tonight.
Their senior political correspondent, Jonathan Carl, talked to Paul Ryan in the car as they're driving around.
What do you say to these maybe weak-need Republicans?
This is not the time to go wobbly.
They're going to run these attack ads at us regardless.
This is a time for leaders to be leaders.
Did you just cost the Republicans control of the House?
I think we were elected in this last election to take a stand on fixing this country's fiscal problems.
Come on.
To go after spending to solve its debt crisis, to stop spending money we don't have.
Why does this cost the House, the Republicans the House?
What kind of question, what kind of thinking is that?
The election's 18 months away.
It's going to be just the opposite.
The question is, did you just cost the Democrats the Senate?
Because there's clearly going to be a perception here.
There's a party doing something and a party doing nothing, standing in the way.
So they continued here.
Carl continued to ryan, they had this exchange after what you just heard.
But what if this destroys your political career?
They don't care about that.
Seen as a rising star, potential presidential candidate.
This is not the time to be worried about political careers.
What if you lose your house seat?
Sincerely, I will be fine if I lose my house seat because you know what?
I will know I did what I thought was right to save this country.
Holy you believe now.
Now they're burying Ryan.
Okay, now not only are the Republicans to lose the House, Ryan is going to lose his seat.
Have you got enough savings?
He's never going to get another job again.
He's stabbing himself in the heart.
This is the end of Paul Ryan's career.
You're never going to be able to get a job.
What are you going to do?
Do you have enough savings to get through the rest of your life?
Well, this is what the media thinks and what the Democrat Party, this is what they hope.
This is what they are going to try to affect.
Last night on Fox special report during the All-Star panel, Brett Baer said the Ryan plan.
It came up in the Senate tonight.
It was voted down 57 to 40.
Republicans voting against Scott Ryan, Susan Collins, Rand Paul, Olympia Snow, Lisa Murkowski.
Obviously, this was just meant to put everybody on the record.
The Obama budget went down 97 to nothing.
The entire party essentially has endorsed the Ryan plan, and you are stuck with it.
There's no running away.
And people are now writing, you know, the boom lid for Ryan to be a candidate is over.
I would say exactly the opposite.
You now own this.
Get the one man who can explain it, argue it, and actually change minds on this.
You need leadership on this.
Otherwise, Republicans are going to sink on this.
Yeah, this is Crownhammer basically saying what I said yesterday.
Somebody better step up now because they do own it.
The minute this thing came out, everybody under the sun embraced it on the Republican side and the Ryan Medicare reform plan.
And now there are some people stripping themselves away because they're becoming afraid.
But it is, gosh, it's such a great opportunity.
It's such a great opportunity out there for leadership.
A career is waiting to be made here on this.
Courage, leadership, passion, belief.
Somebody surely has it.
You realize how many racists that we have in the United States Senate?
97.
97 to zip the vote against Obama's budget.
97 to nothing.
And remember, James Clyburn's out today saying opposition to Obama is based in racism.
And this is a template, a narrative of the media that they're going to be exploiting, by the way, and expanding upon heading into the 2012 reelect.
Yep, yep, yep.
Racist.
97 to nothing.
Headline from the Associated Press: stocks, bond yields sink after gloomy U.S. reports.
Stocks are mostly lower.
Bond yields are at a new low for the year after two reports dimmed hopes for the job market and the U.S. economy.
The government says more people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the first increase in three weeks.
By the way, it was unexpected.
A separate report says the economy grew at a sluggish 1.8% in the first quarter.
Surging gasoline prices and cutbacks in government spending offset strong corporate earnings.
Stocks unexpectedly tumble.
Unemployment unexpectedly rises.
You know, these people actually believe that we're in an economic recovery.
They actually have written themselves into believing that, not just talk themselves in.
I'm talking about the media.
They really believe it.
They want just like, remember when I thanked God for President Obama after single-handedly nailing Osama bin Laden?
Remember the praise I got?
Remember the total sarcasm they missed?
They wanted to believe it.
They wanted to think I would think that way.
They wanted to believe that I believed it.
They have wanted to report we're in a recovery.
Oh, God, let's be in a recovery.
It's our president.
We put it.
So they believe it.
So this economic news is not out of the ordinary.
It's bad.
It's a continuation of bad.
It's not surprising.
It's totally predictable.
There's nothing new here.
We're continuing this spiral in the wrong direction.
The big voice on the right.
Rushlin Boss serving humanity simply by showing up.
According to Reuters, department officials said there were no exceptional factors to account for the increase in last week's claims.
No exceptional factors, like no snowstorms, no tornadoes, no usual things that they could rely on to explain it.
Nothing out there.
Even the Department of Labor is running out of excuses now.
Do you ever think maybe the reason unemployment numbers go up is we're still in a recession?
You think maybe you people in media, you might want to consider a possibility.
Unemployment numbers went up because we haven't yet begun an economic recovery.
It is absolute false, absolutely false to report that we're in an economic recovery.
Everybody knows we're not in an economic recovery.
Now, you can give me three quarters in a row of economic growth of 1.2%.
It's not translating to real life.
Your stats, your reports, suspect as they are, do not translate to an improving quality of life for people.
People don't see more jobs available.
They don't see higher wages.
There's nothing with a recovery to be seen.
You can tout the recovery going on.
You can lament it's not fast enough.
You can lament that the pace of hiring running lagging behind where you want it to be.
There is no replacement unemployment taking place, replacement employment taking place.
And by the way, last week's jobless number was revised up 15,000 new claims.
The regime, however, got a week's worth of good economic news out of a bogus number in the meantime.
Oh, yeah, the number that we got last week, bogus, because they've revised it.
And guess what?
The original report of a reduction in jobless claims last week turns out not to be true.
The jobless number was revised up 15,000 new claims.
So there's not a recovery going on.
There never has been a recovery.
All of that is a myth.
And they believe it.
Let me find something here.
In fact, I hope I printed it.
The second of two hit pieces on Roger Ailes is out today.
Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox news channel.
And there's a hit piece, New York magazine, that ran on Sunday, and Rolling Stone has one out today.
And it's long.
It's like 13 or 14 computer pages.
And I printed one X.
Well, maybe I didn't print it out, but I know where it is.
I go get it during the next break.
What it does, this little excerpt, reports on a poll of Fox viewers and what they think.
To give you one example off the top of my head, I forget the exact number.
Let me 30%.
They can't believe that Rolling Stone.
There are 30%.
That's not the right way to put it.
There's that sizable percentage of people who think that there actually isn't man-made global warming.
And guess what?
That's a kook view, and they all happen to watch Fox.
Now, the mindset, of course, is there is man-made global warming.
It's inarguable.
There's no evidence to the contrary.
That's obviously the belief of Rolling Stone and this small-minded small-view writer, whoever he is, and a lot of the left.
Somebody comes along in a poll and says, no, I don't believe every scientist is global warming.
I'm a skeptic.
You've just defined yourself as a kook.
Well, by the same token, these people have gotten themselves totally invested in a lie, a myth, that there's an economic recovery going on.
There isn't.
How else can you take news like this and honestly be surprised by it?
Well, the only way that can happen is if you get news like last week that unexpectedly fewer JavaScript and you really tell yourself, yeah, we're back, baby.
We're back.
Obama, yeah, right on, mama.
Economy rebounding.
If you genuinely, intellectually have forced yourself to believe it, then you are not planted in reality.
Sternly, where do you want me to go first grabbing phones today?
I'm in a mood to take a phone call or two.
Where do you want me to hit first?
Hudson, is that right?
Hudson, New York.
Joe, I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
How are you?
Hi, Russ.
I've heard you talk a couple of days now about New York 26.
And I think it's just crazy to say Tea Party voters were stupid and duped when really the entire race was fought on this Medicare plan.
And this Medicare plan, people like their Medicare.
They don't want to go back to a voucher system where they have to deal with insurance companies again and getting letters in the mail saying, we're not going to cover this and we're not going to cover that.
It's just putting another middleman in.
They're not going to have to, see?
That's the point.
The Ryan plan doesn't change one thing for current Medicare recipients.
Yeah, I was just going to mention that current Medicare recipients.
So somehow they stop loving their kids and wish the insurance industry on their kids when they turn 65 years old?
No.
I mean, that's just crazy.
No, no, it's not.
Well, you can say it's crazy, but there isn't going to be Medicare for anybody if we don't fix this because it can't go on this way.
It's unsustainable.
And there's some responsible people trying to fix it.
And in the process, they are exempting current recipients because they're already in the game playing by the rules established for them.
But now we have to change the rules.
We can't go on to the current rules.
We have to change them.
We have to start someplace.
We're starting in enough time.
Give future recipients enough time to plan and realize the program, as you've known, isn't going to exist as you know it.
It's still going to be there, but you have to pay a little bit for it yourself, too.
You might have to pay a little bit for your own health care.
So you fix it by adding a middleman where CEOs get $100 million salaries and fly around in corporate jets and have corporate yachts and all that.
That's how you fix healthcare in this country?
That's just nuts.
I mean, it's crazy to everybody.
That fight was fought in New York 26.
New York 26 wasn't lost because Tea Partiers are stupid.
New York 26 was lost because Medicare, vouchers, Medicare is a bad point.
Wait, wait, wait a second now.
You have so many non-sequiturs here.
I don't care how many CEOs are paid $100 million.
I don't know too many who are who fly around in corporate jets.
I don't know what that has to do with anything.
It has absolutely nothing other than it's a key to your mind.
It tells us that you have deep-seated resentments and that you are biased ideologically toward any kind of a solution here.
I mean, you're not even open-minded about this.
What in the world does all this silly class envy stuff have to do with it?
I get, oh, the CEO who's paid $100 million and has the corporate jet is never going to have to be punished because he'll be able to get his health care however he wants it.
Is that it?
Still, non-sequitur.
We're talking about, in terms of the general population, 10 people.
You don't make policy based on what happens to 10 people, good or bad, pro or con.
But don't tell me that New York 26 was totally about Medicare substance.
It was also about a phony Tea Party candidate.
Now, this is what I mean.
You guys can sit there.
You can tell yourselves lies all day long.
If you want to live a lie and if you want to live falsehoods, and if you want to immerse yourself because it's safe and secure in your little cocoon, if you want to tell yourself these things, you go right ahead.
But you are telling us also we can't count on you to fix anything that's wrong.
All you want to do is take, take, take, take, take.
And then after you've taken, take, and taken, what you next want to do is punish, punish, punish, punish whoever it is you hate or envious of or are jealous of.
But regardless, you are worthless in terms of solving a problem.
All right, I found that paragraph in the Rolling Stone piece.
It's amazing.
First, the arrogance and the smugness of the writer of the piece.
I don't have.
Let me get it.
I don't have the writer of the piece handier, but I want to find it.
Not listed there.
At any rate, this is just amazing.
I'll get the name of the guy who wrote this piece.
Hit piece on AILS.
This paragraph.
According to recent polls, Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of all news consumers.
Now, there's not a poll that says that.
This is this guy's analysis of polls.
It is his point of view that Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of all consumers.
Okay, now why?
Well, Fox News viewers are 12 percentage points more likely to believe the stimulus package caused job losses.
So the stimulus package, according to conventional wisdom on the left, according to this guy working at Rolling Stone, the stimulus package must have worked like a champ.
It must be creating jobs left and right out there.
The unemployment rate must be dropping.
Jobs, jobs, jobs must be popping up all over the place.
Because this guy says that Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of all news consumers.
They are 12 points more likely to believe the stimulus package caused job losses.
Well, in fact, it did.
The stimulus package not only caused job losses, it continues to cause job losses.
The stimulus package is killing the U.S. private sector.
It is diminishing it at the expense of government.
Government is growing.
The private sector is not.
And yet, see here, the conventional wisdom is the stimulus worked.
It did.
Well, it's Obama's plan.
It had to work because it's Obama's.
But people that watch Fox, they actually believe that the stimulus package caused job loss.
Can you believe that?
Well, it did.
So in truth, the Fox News viewers are ahead of the game, much more connected to reality than Rolling Stone writers or readers.
Here's the next.
Fox News viewers are 17 points more likely to believe that Muslims want to establish Sharia law in America.
Yeah, did you know that Muslims in America want no part of Sharia?
Are you aware that Muslims in America have no interest in Islam?
Rolling Stone knows that.
This guy and Rolling Stone readers know full where.
Muslims in America have no desire for Islam.
All Sharia law is Islam.
Sharia law is Islam.
The Fox news viewers, therefore, are the kooks and the dangers.
Here's the next one.
Did you know that Fox News viewers, most misinformed of all news consumers, are 30 points more likely to say scientists dispute global warming?
That is a fact.
It is a fact that there are scientists who dispute global warming.
We have one on this program, our official climatologist.
Dr. Roy Spencer used to work at NASA.
University, Alabama, Huntsville.
Pat Michaels.
They're all over the place, folks.
There are many scientists, more than ever.
In fact, global warming, man-made global warming has pretty much been buried now.
It's been established as a man-made hoax.
But yet, in a hit piece on Roger Ailes, in Rolling Stone, the kooks are Fox News viewers who are likely to say that scientists dispute global warming.
Apparently, to this guy at Rolling Stone and Rolling Stone Readers, there's a 100% agreement that man-made global warming is real and that every scientist believes that.
Only in Kookville, i.e. the audience of Fox News.
In fact, a study by the University of Maryland reveals ignorance of Fox viewers actually increases the longer they watch the network.
That's because Roger Ailes isn't interested in providing people with information or even balanced range of perspectives, like his political mentor, Richard Nixon.
Roger Ailes traffics in the emotions of victimization.
So Roger Ailes does not want those of you who watch Fox to be informed.
He's lying to you.
He's turning you into an ocean of kooks who actually believe now that Muslims want to establish Sharia law in America.
And you idiots also think that the stimulus bill didn't create any private sector jobs.
And you also, you also believe that there are people that don't believe in man-made global warming.
Now, who, in truth here, is a gold brick?
Who, in truth, is worthless to news?
Rolling Stone, this reporter.
Who, in truth, is a mind-numbed robot?
Who, in truth, has been programmed to believe things that are in no way associated with the truth?
This guy who wrote this hit piece at Rolling Stone, and obviously their readers who lapped this crap up.
Stunning.
Nothing's real.
Nothing's real.
Who's next?
Christy or Kirsty.
I'm sorry, Kirsty, Joplin, Missouri.
How are you doing?
I am good, Rush.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
We are all present and accounted for here at the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce.
But we have so many, many others that aren't.
And I called to talk to you today because I wanted to talk about business recovery in Joplin.
I thought you were the man to talk to about this.
What can I do?
Two things, Rush.
The first is we have opened a partnership here in our facility at the Newman Innovation Center.
The SBA Business Recovery Center has opened this morning at 9 a.m.
And it's a partnership between three entities, the SBA, the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Missouri Southern State University Business and Technology Department.
We are so excited to be able to offer this service to our businesses who are in dire need of assistance right now.
We are taking care of the people first, but we've got to get business back up and running here in Joplin.
So we want everyone to know that that resource is available for businesses.
All right.
Well, I'll tell you what.
I have, you know, I'm a Missourian.
I'm a Missourian.
I have tornadoes and floods and stuff where I live.
And just like you in Joplin, they're not a whole lot of whining and complaining about it.
You're just rolling up the sleeves, as your call indicates here, and doing something about it.
And I have total faith that you'll get a proper response to this.
Because people want to put their lives back together.
People in Joplin, Missouri know the fastest way to do that is to do it themselves.
You wait, it'll happen.
Back after this.
How would you ever measure ignorance in a poll?
This guy says, study by the University of Maryland reveals the ignorance of Fox viewers increases the longer they watch the network.
How do you measure ignorance in a poll like this?
This guy's name is Tim Dickinson, and he is a nut.
I've established some of the titles, things that he's written.