Nor would I classify the masses as stupid. In my humble opinion, it's plain laziness and the need to be entertained, and not yesterday, but now. Think about it - today's kids need instant gratification, i.e. tv, video games, etc. When I was a kid, I had to make my own fun - make a game out of just climbing a tree or riding a bike. Do you think today's kids are that imaginative? I think not - why bother when they've got a person or electronics to be imaginative FOR them?

No one has patience anymore - it's "I want it and I want it now." Therefore, the MSM puts it all out there, in as little time as possible, but as entertaining as possible in order to feed the need to be entertained right at this moment. Would Obama's lack of wearing a flag pin been such a big to-do if the MSM didn't sensationalize it? Highly doubtful. But, since they put things out there like, say, a 'Star Magazine', they make the non-issues into huge ones, sensationalizing the shit out of said non-issue, yet they have no qualms about by-passing the old, boring - the IMPORTANT - issues because they just aren't 'entertaining' enough.

This is the mindset people have now - not that they're stupid but they've been dumbed down enough to eat what's fed them, no questions asked because ... it's instant, yet entertaining, gratification. What does it tell you when more American's vote for 'American Idol' than for president? Maybe if the MSM put news in that type of format for newscasters, people will pay attention ... but I doubt it!

"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
George Carlin