{"id":14789,"date":"2003-06-19T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/19\/who-needs-reality-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2003-06-19T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-19T13:57:00","slug":"who-needs-reality-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/19\/who-needs-reality-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Needs Reality? Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shaft&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/archive\/2003_06_15_archive.html#200429305\" target=\"_blank\">recent post<\/a> concerning the public&rsquo;s misconception about WMD in Iraq reveals some startling statistics.  Bob Harris took it a step further in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/mtarchives\/week_2003_06_15.html#000779\" target=\"_blank\">his post at <i>This Modern World<\/i><\/a>, which randomly sampled some statistics at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/random.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>PollingReport.com<\/i><\/a>, revealing some startling ignorance among Americans.  I guess I shouldn&rsquo;t be too surprised, but take a look and see for yourself how low the bar has been set&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200438472?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaft&rsquo;s recent post concerning the public&rsquo;s misconception about WMD in Iraq reveals some startling statistics. Bob Harris took it a step further in his post at This Modern World, which randomly sampled some statistics at PollingReport.com, revealing some startling ignorance among Americans. I guess I shouldn&rsquo;t be too surprised, but take a look and see &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/19\/who-needs-reality-part-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who Needs Reality? Part II&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}