Posted by
Brian Garst on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:43:25 PM
According to a new Gallop poll, 42% percent of Americans admit to being
dumber than a rock. Er, I mean, 42% of Americans think
conspiracy behind gas price drop.
It's not just the bloggers suggesting that the 66-cent drop
in the average pump price over the past seven weeks to $2.38 per gallon
is thanks to the collusion of former oilmen President Bush and Vice
President Cheney and their Big Oil buddies. (Bloggers advancing this
theory include Long Delayed Echoes, NH Insider, Various Miseries, and
The "What Do I Know Grit.") A Gallup Poll found that 42 percent of the
public thinks the Bush administration is deliberately manipulating the
price. As plausible as that scenario apparently seems, energy analysts
nevertheless deem it impossible.
The wave of ignorance that has swept over this country, thanks to
massive failures in the media to report based on rationality instead of
political hysteria, would be laughable if it weren't so depressingly
dangerous. When reporters label massive market conspiracies to
manipulate prices for a commodity where no one has the market power to
much effect the price of trading as "plausible" instead of the more
accurate description of "retarded", it's little surpise that the public
is this ignorant.
It certainly begs the question, plausible to whom? Five year olds? In a
sane world, that's what one would think. Apparently, however, it's
plausible to all known victims of Bush Derangement Syndrome. All 42% of
them.