The media leave out so many important facts that, even if you engage in critical thinking, you cannot come to a reasoned conclusion. For instance Obama says that all of the terrorist behind the ’93 WTC attack were caught and behind bars. You never get any mention that the one that wasn’t was in Iraq, where he held a passport when he came to the US in the first place. There is a nearly complete media ban on reporting any information that might, if taken into consideration, provide any justification for the war in Iraq.
I am not sure that critical thinking is dead, it is just too hard to get complete information on any subject due to biased journalism, and the fact that most of our information comes from agenda driven news orgs. If the information in the report, which was all commonly known, had been more widely reported and discussed, I am not sure that the kind of know nothing venom you see in those comments could survive.
If I have the power to control what you know, I have little fear of your powers of critical thinking, and little fear of your right to vote.
