The point for us should be that these people are SO WARPED IN THEIR PERCEPTION OF REALITY that they actually BELIEVE what they are saying.
Their view of the world is so wierd that they really think they are fair and balanced. They are not smoking dope. they are just NUTS. Their problem is that EVERYONE they have ever met in their closed little circle is just like them and they have never met an opposing viewpoint in their entire lives.
They are the proverbial fish that doesn’t know he’s wet.
I went to a baby shower with my wife a few years ago and there were a bunch of these “fish” there as well. They were SHOCKED! SHOCKED! that anyone existed that didn’t conform to their worldview.
They are like the boy in the bubble. They don't know what happens in the real world.
They think people in Southern Indiana all wear overalls, don't have electricity, and wear big floppy hats from the 1890’s. Their idea of rural areas is frozen in the 1940’s. They've seen Ma and Pa Kettle, Grapes of Wrath (required for Cinema class), and the Wizard of Oz and they have an idea that this is how things were and are in rural areas. The black and white images are frozen in their minds. Since they are so isolated in their restricted thinking, I bet the think that if they go to Southern Indiana that it will actually be black and white.
NYC was the center of the universe in her world view. She could not understand how those of us out here in fly over country were able to put food on the table, except maybe from our own garden.
She was a nice kid and I hope she has figured it out by now.
On three different days, I heard Diane Rehm say "Hasn't Sandy Berger been exonerated of stealing documents from the National Archives?" All three times, I emailed her that he had not been. She still kept blathering the same line time after time until he finally was convicted. She had to shutup then.