Fun_People Archive
1 Feb
Al Franken & Rush Limbaugh

Date: Thu, 1 Feb 96 02:11:17 -0800
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Al Franken & Rush Limbaugh

I believe that buying Al Franken's book, _Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat
Idiot and Other Observations_ is the best way to get the message across
about how many people in this country are *not* dittoheads.

Franken cites a study by the Annenberg School of Commmunication which
showed that people who listen to Rush not only are the least
well-informed people, but that they rate themselves as the *most*
well-informed.  Franken says, "...why would people so woefully lacking in
the basic facts of an issue think they were the best informed?  Social
scientists call the phenomenon 'pseudo-certainy.'  I call it 'being a
fucking moron.'"

Julie Mangin
jmangin@access.digex.net
http://blevins.cns.vt.edu/localhome/clog/jmangin.html
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