The desperate opposition

Late night, early morning talk radio is always filled with conspiracy theories and the fantasies of nut cases but as the election nears, with the polls predicting an Obama victory, the extremes of the extremists are more angry, irrational and dangerous-sounding than ever. I'm tempted to detail a few of them but won't. They already get more attention than they deserve. But it all documents a sorry state of a significant proportion of our citizenry, and of the nation that deprived them of the most elementary education in clear thinking.

From The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby:

"If enough money is involved, and enough people believe that two plus two equals five, the media will report the story with a straight face, always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that "mathematicians, however, say that two plus two still equals four." With a perverted objectivity that gives credence to nonsense, mainstream news outlets have done more to undermine logic and reason than raptureready.com could ever do."