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#1 Apr 16 2007 at 7:56 AM Rating: Excellent
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Some survey was released stating that, despite omnipresent news coverage via multiple outlets, the average guy knows as much (or less) about basic civics than we did twenty years ago. Based on questions such as the name of the vice-president, Speaker of the House, which parties control Congress, etc. the amusing part to me:
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And, perhaps as another sign of the times, the percentage of people holding a high level of knowledge about current news – those able to answer at least 15 of 23 questions – is higher among the regular audience of Jon Stewart's The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central – as well as those who frequent the Web-sites of major newspapers – 54 percent -- than it is among the regular audience of CNN – 41 percent – or the regular audience of the network evening news shows – 38 percent.

Rush Limbaugh's audience, it turns out, does better on this test – 51 percent – than the audience regular audience of Fox News Channel – 35 percent.
It was previously shown that TDS viewers were better informed than O'Reilly audiences after O'Reilly referred to TDS viewers as pot-smoking college drop-outs (or whatever similar words he used). Now TDS/CR audiences beat out Limbaugh's. Smiley: laugh

I would, however, be interested to see a comparison between Limbaugh and some Air America program. Erm, if there even still is an Air America.
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#2 Apr 16 2007 at 7:58 AM Rating: Good
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Is Katie Couric still on the air?
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#3 Apr 16 2007 at 8:10 AM Rating: Excellent
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That study was probably influenced by the liberal media just like everything else. I call shenanigans!
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#4 Apr 16 2007 at 8:11 AM Rating: Good
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#5 Apr 16 2007 at 12:46 PM Rating: Decent
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Well. Since "some survey" said it, it must be true!!!
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#6 Apr 16 2007 at 12:53 PM Rating: Excellent
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Well. Since "some survey" said it, it must be true!!!
Smiley: rolleyes

I posted it as an amusing fluff piece. If it got your dander up and now you demand cites so you can try to prove it wrong with long, tortured posts, just let me know.
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#7 Apr 16 2007 at 1:26 PM Rating: Good
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46.78% of Assylumites believe surveys, but 87.644% of surveys are the result of spider rape.

Fact

Deal with it.
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#8 Apr 16 2007 at 1:28 PM Rating: Decent
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That study was probably influenced by the liberal media just like everything else. I call shenanigans!


Only as liberal is it's board of directors.
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#9 Apr 16 2007 at 1:47 PM Rating: Default
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Jophiel wrote:
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Well. Since "some survey" said it, it must be true!!!
I posted it as an amusing fluff piece. If it got your dander up and now you demand cites so you can try to prove it wrong with long, tortured posts, just let me know.


Apparently, my amusing fluff answer to your amusing fluff piece got *your* dander up. Mission Accomplished! ;)
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#10 Apr 16 2007 at 1:52 PM Rating: Good
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Apparently, my amusing fluff answer to your amusing fluff piece got *your* dander up. Mission Accomplished! ;)
I'm confused.

Are you entering that post for the "Rubber/Glue" award, or is it in the "You missed my irony" category?
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#11 Apr 17 2007 at 3:14 AM Rating: Decent
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Mission Accomplished! ;)

Does this mean you'll stop pretending to be retarded now?
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#12 Apr 17 2007 at 4:56 AM Rating: Decent
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Mission Accomplished! ;)

Does this mean you'll stop pretending to be retarded now?


No, this means that he gets to break out the special balloons and banners that were given to all Pubbie voters to announce "Mission Accomplished."


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Smasharoo wrote:

Mission Accomplished! ;)

Does this mean you'll stop pretending to be retarded now?


It means the war has just begun...

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#14 Apr 17 2007 at 5:41 AM Rating: Decent
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Does this mean you'll stop pretending to be retarded now?
no he will still give you most of the right answers.
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#15 Apr 17 2007 at 6:03 AM Rating: Excellent
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Does this mean you'll stop pretending to be retarded now?
no he will still give you most of the right answers.
What the fuck does this even mean? Retarded people give correct answers?
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#16 Apr 17 2007 at 6:10 AM Rating: Excellent
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I was thinking that TDS was dyslexic for STD...
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#17 Apr 17 2007 at 9:25 AM Rating: Decent
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I was thinking that TDS was dyslexic for STD...


Sweet I want dyslexic aids so I never get sick again!
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#18 Apr 17 2007 at 9:43 AM Rating: Good
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The Great American Civics Quiz.
I suck. Smiley: frown
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According to our gradebook, you got 32.5 right; and you left 5 blank.
You took a stab at the one about the last name on the Declaration of Independence... You got it wrong, but you took a stab.

We're not history or civics majors here at BBHQ; but we think that every American should be able to answer at least 75% of these. Accordingly, your score should be 40 or better.

Using that as a standard, we created this "yardstick" to evaluate your performance:

50-54: excellent - where you should be
45-49: very good - with some room for improvement
41-44: good - but no gold stars
31-40: fair - OK, but not noteworthy
20-30: poor - a remedial course is in order
below 20: miserable - inexcusable

Using that scale, we would describe your score as fair.

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#19 Apr 17 2007 at 10:12 AM Rating: Good
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According to our gradebook, you got 43 right; and you left none blank. We'll give you an A for effort.

You took a stab at the one about the last name on the Declaration of Independence... You got it wrong, but you took a stab.

We're not history or civics majors here at BBHQ; but we think that every American should be able to answer at least 75% of these. Accordingly, your score should be 40 or better.


Huh, thought I'd do a bit better. Although I did miss one for spelling >.>
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#20 Apr 17 2007 at 10:23 AM Rating: Excellent
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According to our gradebook, you got 45 right; and you left none blank. We'll give you an A for effort.

You took a stab at the one about the last name on the Declaration of Independence... You got it wrong, but you took a stab.


That was a pretty hard quiz. I missed some stupid ones, too.
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#21 Apr 17 2007 at 10:28 AM Rating: Good
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I took the quiz and got 36 right, but 6 of my wrong answers were mispelled and if asked in an oral quiz I would have done better then fair. Still no glod star, since I made some stupid mistakes that my mom would beat me for.

I blame her for dying and not being around to keep me on my toes, with her daily civics lessons.
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#22 Apr 17 2007 at 10:30 AM Rating: Excellent
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According to our gradebook, you got 39 right; and you left 4 blank.

It's much harder if you weren't alive when those speeches were made. Also, the question regarding the duty of the Supreme Court was too ambiguous. I demand a recount!

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#23 Apr 17 2007 at 10:33 AM Rating: Excellent
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The Supreme Court ones were pretty easy, I thought. I put "Alberto" instead of "Alfredo" as Gonzales' first name. Should have left it as Al.

Oh, and I thought Lincoln wrote a speech that Gerald Ford gave, haha.
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At least I got a 100% on the Citizenship Test, so those of you about to say "go home brownie" can suck it.
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#25 Apr 17 2007 at 10:54 AM Rating: Excellent
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That one was laughably easy, though.
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#26 Apr 17 2007 at 10:55 AM Rating: Excellent
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According to our gradebook, you got 51 right; and you left 1 blank.

You took a stab at the one about the last name on the Declaration of Independence... You got it wrong, but you took a stab.

We're not history or civics majors here at BBHQ; but we think that every American should be able to answer at least 75% of these. Accordingly, your score should be 40 or better.
I blanked on Bernake after a seeming lifetime of Greenspan, blind-guessed Hamilton for the DoI sig and, for no explainable reason, said the Senate had 50 voting members, not 100 Smiley: rolleyes

That last flub alone makes knowing the Presidental quotes a lot less fulfilling.
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