I don't understand it either. The ostrich head in the sand is a good descriptive for this.
We've been kept in the dark for so long. It's as if EVERY administration for 50 or more years has tried to keep us from getting riled up.
Laura is trying to get people informed, Michael Savage is doing the same. (Both carried on www.ksky.com on the internet.)
Their listeners get it. From the calls you can tell a lot of people get it.
But you'd never know it from most of our media talking heads.
Laura saying the President should give a major address to the American people, spelling out the threat from terrorism around the world.
No way. If he did that, he'd bring the economy to a screaming halt in a day, as millions of Americans took off from work to liquidate their 401K's and put their cash into ammo and MRE's.
There's a brilliant and too-close-to-true line in Men in Black: something like, "The only way people can get on with their lives is if they don't know what's really going on out there."