"The fellow with the turban thing--I call it a diaper-head..."

[detonate_for_me]

Fidel Castro is a singer, a triangle has no sides, and we're all set to invade Italy, Cuba, China, India, Pakistan, Canada, France, Iran, and Kyrgyzstan. Star Wars was based on a true story. And Buddhist monks are mostly Muslim, as are Israelis.

THIS COUNTRY IS SO FUCKED.

EDIT: If you are about to post a comment along the lines of "Oh man, not

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Re: Lets bash someone else for a change, eh?

[noctolator]

I believe anybody can be made to look stupid when the camera and the editor control context.

Ten years ago, I made a video recording of my high school English teacher, in the back seat of a schoolbus, on the way home from a class trip to see Miss Saigon. I asked him deliberate questions about the ending of the musical and elicited phrases such as "She had to die." I got graphic descriptions of action in the play along with commentary.

I then re-recorded my own side of the interview dialogue while wearing the exact same outfit and riding in a similar bus at the same time of day in the same direction.

Using digital video, which you have to admit was cutting edge at the time, I made a video where my teacher confessed to sexually abusing and murdering a girl in our class who he frequently picked on. I showed this to my class.

Just because he doesn't show you the people who say "Iran is not down there; that's Australia" or "You're not John Howard" or "Star Wars is based on old samurai movies and stuff George Lucas thought up while smoking hash in film school" doesn't mean those people are not in the majority here in America.

Apart from the fact that he could be holding dozens of hours of tape of people being aware and smart, instead of stupid and ignorant., he also does not come forth with his methodology on choosing subjects in the first place. I believe that he has made some clear class distinctions with who he interviews. Nobody who even smacks of the middle class interviews here. No one appears wealthy either. So he is presumably targeting uneducated people who aren't cosmopolitan and who are not interested in the world beyond their communities.

Some of his ripest answers come from the young and that's just not fair.

I really hope all the media savvy our young ones are acquiring these days leads to more effective skepticism of what's being crammed down their noggins.