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didn't say it was, just thought so call knowledgeable people would prefer legitimate arguments to hot air and smoke. JUST BECAUSE I TYPE IN CAPS DOES NOT MEAN EVERYTHING I SAY IS CORRECT.

The table Alan posted is surprising because it contradicts earlier research. A few years ago, the Anneberg School did research into media "news sources". In it, people who said they got most of their "news" from Rush Limbaugh self-identified as "very well informed" about current events, but when given a test of knowledge of basic current events, they scored poorly. (Viewers of "fake news" The Daily Show scored relatively well in the knowledge test.)

Anyway, here's the site that that table originally came from:
http://people-press.org/reports/display ... portID=319

There's a link where you can take a version of the quiz - some easy questions, some are a bit obscure. (I got one wrong! Arrrgghh!)

pigsteak wrote:now come on krampus...surely you remember libbie James Carville and his abrasive debating...abrasiveness is a character issue, not a political stance. duh.

Really? Over the last ten years or so I have become convinced that abrasiveness is all there is to the right's political stance.