If you were to learn about the United States entirely from media – news, movies, music, radio, television entertainment, newspapers – what are some of the erroneous things you would believe about this country and our society?
Leave them in the comments. No idea is too dumb – in fact, the farther out they are, the more I may like them.
That homosexuals comprise approximately 25% of our male population.
Government deficit spending promotes long term GDP Growth (see Obama “Recovery”)
The Obama administration is remarkably free of scandal.
Profits are bad
Electric and hybrid cars help the environment
Transit helps the environment
Government spending helps the economy
The economy has recovered from the recession
Iran poses no threat
In any social setting involving more than three people, one person will be black.
That we are a country governed by the rule of law.
That homosexuals comprise approximately 25% of our male population…and the other 75% dabbles occasionally.
The responsible person in a relationship is the woman, while the man is basically an overgrown child.
A single person with an average job in New York City lives in a designer decorated, 1500 sq’ apartment.
American landscapes all look remarkably like landscapes in California or Canada.
Death Race 2000 is a movie about daily commuting
President Obama is just not humor material; he just hasn’t done anything that you could make fun of.
Any child left unattended for more than five minutes faces certain death.
Big business is conservative.
I’d love one of the lefty commenters here to try to dispute that, because it is provably untrue, including Wall Street.
“American landscapes all look remarkably like landscapes in California or Canada”
While LA and NYC are the only cities.
Real Housewives of America are overweight, shallow, entitled dimwits that apply makeup with a back hoe to attract the attention of their absent Italian husbands.
Any time a gun is purchased, that gun will be used to kill someone within hours. That person will probably be a child. A cute child, not one of the ugly ones.
“No idea is too dumb – in fact, the farther out they are, the more I may like them.”
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
There are only two accents: “regular” and “southern”.
There are only two types of young men in America: fat, overweight slobs with buzz cuts and neck tattoos, and homosexuals.
“There are only two accents: “regular” and “southern”.”
And everyone between the Hudson and the Sierra Nevada speaks “Southern”.
That every aspect of a Conservative’s or Republican’s life…every thing the’ve ever done or said is up for strict “journalistic” scrutiny, while the toughest question posed a Democrat by a “journalist” is “what’s your favorite color?”
I experienced this once while in Bavaria;
All of America’s streets are war zones, just like bad neighborhoods in Chicago and the District of Columbia.
That college/university professors are always right; their Science! cannot be questioned by anyone who draws a check from a business and never have any ulterior motives other than Science! in presenting their Science!.
That consumption of red M&M’s and the cola drink ‘Tab’ will kill you.
kinlaw….good point about Big Business. If you believe media, Big Business is all rightwing criminal. As a long-time veteran about Minnesota Big Corporations, I can tell you they are very liberal. Just one example…..not only did General Mills campaign for gay marriage in Minnesota, but they sponsored the first homosexual wedding cermemonies that day the law took effect. And don’t get me started on banning of “Christmas”. One employer of mine even put out a notice that no locations, office or retail, could even have any garland, as that was associated with Christmas. You could only put up snowflakes as that is a generic winter symbol. Okay, I’ll say it. That was Best Buy.
-Lesbians are always hot.
-Practicing Christians are rare, and the few around are loony tunes.
-Which leads to…..no one goes to church on Sundays.
-Trial lawyers are always good guys just looking out for you
-If a politician is a good guy/gal, its a Democrat
-The Catholic church’s problems are due to pedohiles, not homosexual man who like teenage boys.
-We don’t have $100,000,000,000,000 in unfunded liabilities in Big Entitlement
“Practicing Christians are rare, and the few around are loony tunes”
Catholic priests always have some evil sideline.
“-Which leads to…..no one goes to church on Sundays.”
Christians are not merely sinners; they are raging hypocrites.
(As interpreted by Janji Cohen of “Weeds” fame): Every member of every mainstream faith is a stepford spouse and hypocrite. The only people with any integrity are secular Jews. But just the right ones.
“Lesbians are always hot”
The only really good parents with functional families are gay.
Fathers are always bumbling, emasculated idiots, married to improbably gorgeous women with precocious kids whose affection for Dad seems kind of condescending.
We routinely send our military forces around the world to kill women and children – for oil, mostly – but we haven’t won a war in 40 years.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a genius
Private health insurance is too expensive and out of reach for the average American, and when one does have it, it doesn’t cover anything so Americans are forgoing any health care, and either dying, turning to manufacturing and selling illegal drugs just to get by, or moving in droves to countries like Cuba where they can get top notch care.
Mark Dayton is a competent, if not brilliant, administrator.
Mass Transit will eliminate traffic jams.
Building Sports stadiums is a good way to create jobs.
We have to do SOMETHING!
The mail is delivered in time to look at over breakfast.
That global warming is real, and is directly linked to the avian flu outbreak, which is adversely affecting both our trade with other countries and our own food supply.
(Thank you Governor Dayton for declaring a state of emergency, unlike the dolt next door who prohibits discussing the problems, as the avian flu affects Wisconsin.)
That conservatives are fools who believe things that are factually false.
If you are talking to someone on the phone, and they hang up on you unexpectedly, if you click the hook switch rapidly with your finger and yell HELLO? HELLO?
you might just get reconnected.
you are talking to someone on the phone, and they hang up on you unexpectedly, if you click the hook switch rapidly with your finger and yell HELLO? HELLO? you might get reconnected
I wanna develop an app that does that for smart phones.
Since someone mentioned believing things that are false, howzabout “John Kennedy was not killed by a commie stooge and Bobbie Kennedy was not killed by a Palestinian terrorist.”
Not quite the spirit intended, DG, but not as far off as usual.
unlike the dolt next door
You mean the “dolt” who beat the living snot out of the “smart people” and all their plutocrat money not once, but three times in four years?
And then went on to set his state on the road to a sustainable balanced budget even with a lagging manufacturing sector (unlike the “smart” Governor Dayton, who sapped extra billions out of a state economy that, outside the financial services and medical insurance and metro-area service economy, he has hobbled)?
That “dolt?”
From the news media I learn that there are stupid liberals who link non-existent global warming to an outbreak of avian flu. And even if there is some warming, those same liberals fail to pin the cause on man’s fossil fuel use.
DG got part of it right – the media does portray Walmer as a dolt! Mitch your 12:23 comment about men and dads in particular so right …… How bout these: Congress should be judged by how many laws they pass; and no President has ever had to get approval for his ideas from Congress before Obama
If “frakking” occurrs within a hundred miles of your house, turning on a water faucet will produce gouts of flame.
Men frequently address professional, college-educated women as “little missie”.
The modern passenger aircraft has seats spaced three feet apart. The passenger cabin is approximately thirty feet wide and fifteen feet tall.
Cops are evil and unnecessary. They kill black people for fun
I hate to nit-pik: I believe Mr. Walker from ’next door’ did in fact declare a state of emergency regarding Avian Bird flu and did so earlier than Mr. Dayton.
“On Monday,[20th] Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker declared a state of emergency there, authorizing the Wisconsin National Guard to assist authorities responding to the bird flu in Jefferson, Juneau and Barron counties. That includes helping with the response and cleaning up once the birds are killed.”
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/300714491.html
American schoolchildren are the cleanest, smartest, best behaved and highest scoring on the planet.
Despite their teachers being underpaid and having to buy their own pencils.
There are oases of literature, art and culture outside New York City, but small and poorly furnished.
Flyover country begins at JFK and ends at LAX.