{"id":16905,"date":"2010-12-31T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16905"},"modified":"2010-12-31T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T17:26:41","slug":"liberal-conventional-wisdom-distrust-verify-and-then-distrust-even-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16905","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Conventional Wisdom: Distrust, Verify, And Then Distrust Even More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meme made the rounds of the Sorosphere over the past few weeks, yet again; &#8220;Fox News viewers are less well-informed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Since it was a meme from the Sorosphere, I figured it had to be crap.<\/p>\n<p>As always, that sense was correct:<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O8KHOgyYyHQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O8KHOgyYyHQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about twenty minutes worth of video, but it disembowels the &#8220;Fox Viewers Are Teh Dumm&#8221; meme.\u00a0 Again.<\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of how leftybloggers hand aortic dissections when they got the word that Limbaugh listeners were better-informed about current events than network TV viewers, and even with NPR listeners.<\/p>\n<p>Moral of the story:\u00a0 if a leftyblogger makes a factual assertion, assume it&#8217;s wrong, either factually or logically.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll rarely steer\u00a0 you wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meme made the rounds of the Sorosphere over the past few weeks, yet again; &#8220;Fox News viewers are less well-informed&#8221;. Since it was a meme from the Sorosphere, I figured it had to be crap. As always, that sense was correct: It&#8217;s about twenty minutes worth of video, but it disembowels the &#8220;Fox Viewers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16906,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905\/revisions\/16906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}