Stoopid

I've seen some discussion on the web about what constitutes stupid and how we're such an ignorant people; Sadaam had WMD, Obama's a Muslim, etc.. I've seen arguments about what someone said or didn't say, all the while the exact quote is available for everyone to see; lots and lots of cable TV hours burned up here. As long as mass media is controlled by corporations whose first priority is profit and not the citizenry's best interest there will be stupid. Unfortunately mass media is easy and good citizenship, well it takes work. Why bother if our media keeps reminding us we can't do anything about it anyway. Moron America, looks like we're stuck with it.

Oh, and did you hear about the wingnuts and whackjobs who are dissing Disney's newest animation, WALL-E? Seems that there's too many attacks on laziness and stupidity. No pun intended, but what planet are these people on?

Moron Americans

For all the whinners complaining about the Supreme Court’s ruling last week concerning The Writ for detainees McClatchy has a story from Sunday, America's prison for terrorists often held the wrong men.

The McClatchy investigation found that top Bush administration officials knew within months of opening the Guantanamo detention center that many of the prisoners there weren't "the worst of the worst." From the moment that Guantanamo opened in early 2002, former Secretary of the Army Thomas White said, it was obvious that at least a third of the population didn't belong there.

The Military Commission Act is overturned, the same MCA that John McCain played a large role in getting through Congress. What does that say about McCain? IMO it says he’s not very effective, one and two, his judgment is not to be trusted.

John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, told a crowd of supporters in New Jersey Friday that the Supreme Court’s latest Guantanamo Bay ruling is “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”

Link Habeas corpus is bad for America? No John, it's not.

I've always been fascinated by "Moron America." Digby is too and explores some of the reasons Americans know so little about politics.