{"id":168,"date":"2003-11-16T01:01:11","date_gmt":"2003-11-16T06:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/seeing_the_truth\/"},"modified":"2003-11-16T01:01:11","modified_gmt":"2003-11-16T06:01:11","slug":"seeing_the_truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/seeing_the_truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, in discussing the allegedly BBC-generated anti-Bush “hysteria” in England, Andrew Sullivan expressed confidence in British levelheadedness<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But my native country isn’t renowned for its common sense for nothing. I have faith that the majority will eventually see through the propaganda to the truth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder if this is what he meant (per Drudge<\/a>):<\/p>\n

The full extent of the low regard Britons have for George Bush was tonight revealed in a poll.
\nThe US President was branded a threat to world peace by a clear majority, 60%, of those questioned by YouGov.
\nMore than one in three, 37%, said Mr Bush was “stupid” while 33% called him “incoherent”.
\nOnly a minority saw positive characteristics in Mr Bush, with just 7% regarding him as a good world leader, 6% as articulate and 10% as intelligent.
\n. . .
\nThere was little faith in the President’s ability to handle the continuing problems in Iraq.
\nFewer than a quarter, 24%, had confidence in Mr Bush on Iraq, while 74% did not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If only we could similarly see through the propaganda to the truth here in America.
\nOne caveat on this poll: I’m not familiar with YouGov’s<\/a> methodology. This was apparently an online survey, but it’s supposedly drawn from “a representative sample of 1,934 adults.” So consider that while assessing the findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, in discussing the allegedly BBC-generated anti-Bush “hysteria” in England, Andrew Sullivan expressed confidence in British levelheadedness: But my native country isn’t renowned for its common sense for nothing. I have faith that the majority will eventually see through the propaganda to the truth. I wonder if this is what he meant (per Drudge): […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}