I was going to do a post on the PIPA Report on Bush supporters but once again procrastination has paid off and Jazz over at Running Scared has done it for me.
The phrase "Cognitive Dissonance" is used to describe this phenomenon. We are quick to be critical of FOX "News", but what does FOX do? It tells viewers what they want to hear, the problem isn't FOX it's the people who watch it. Steve Soto's post at the Left Coaster on the "Cult of Bush" deals with this. As we have discussed here before it is much easier to live in a good VS evil, black and white digital world. Bush speaks to the intellectual laziness of a large portion of the American people. It makes one wonder if the "Reality-Based Community" is doomed.
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