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[MsCookieMonst3r]

Take a look...

[AnneDreeAhh]

Well, stupid people ae everywhere. It just shows you how much common sense most people lack.

I loved the guy who said that Star wars was based on a true story. LOL.

[zaccariah2005]

lmao

but, it is probably a bias or staged report. I think most people in the United States wud no a country that begins with the letter u, as well as the answer to the other questions esp. the KFC question.

[Reincarnation]

When watching stuff like this, what little remains of my optimism tells me that the reporter definitely asked a bunch of people who knew the answers to the questions and didn't air them because it obviously wouldn't fit into his/her story. Of course, my cynicism kicks in and says that these people really exist. But finally, logic would dictate that these people who are too stupid to follow the news or read anything would probably be too lazy to do anything of great political consequence (i.e. vote). Maybe I'm wrong?

And no, Star Wars really is based on a true story...we just didn't see it happen because it occurred a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, and we don't have the temporal or physical technologies to observe it.

(Insert Internet Sarcasm note here)

[MsCookieMonst3r]

For a fact, i know that many countries dislike Americans, for one reason or another...so this probably was pretty biased.

However, there are so many people out there that are completely ignorant of the situation in our country, dare i say somewhere outside you.S.

i got a kick out of the religious-affiliated questions tho.

[NickC]

The video was really really funny.

I like how the last dude didnt know there the Berlin Wall was!

It wasnt biased or anything, it was just for fun. They make fun of President Bush in all sorts of ways. No body defends him -.-

[tycoonboy388]

To echo dear Reincarnation, its very clear that the editor only took people's answers that were by far the most insane and ludicrous answers. Disregarding the fact that only twenty or so people were shown answering the questions (hardly a representative sample), I am supremely confident that the majority of people who were questioned were able to get some of these questions right, not all of them but some. And I'm sure that there were some that were able to get all of the questions right. But it might have to do with where the reporter was asking the questions, the samples might not be truly representative of the American people.

At the same time, this is just too funny, and it makes me wonder if the United States will ever fix its broken international image when people in this country can be so ignorant towards the rest of the world.

[zaccariah2005]

I don't know about you guys, but I think it is staged. I mean come on, Who doesn't know how many sides there are in a triangle?

[zaccariah2005]

I don't know about you guys, but I think it was all planned. I mean come on, Who doesn't know how many sides there are in a triangle?

[MsCookieMonst3r]

My favorites were "What religion are buddhist monks?" "Islamic. I dont know." and "Who is Fidel Castro?" "A singer."

ROFL

[DBest]

zaccariah2005, on Apr 9 2007, 07:14 PM, said:

I don't know about you guys, but I think it is staged. I mean come on, Who doesn't know how many sides there are in a triangle?

I agree (not on the triangle). Was this even a real interview??? C'mon it said CNNNN. The whole thing was funny and stupid, especially the part when they all pointed at Australia, and the lady said the currency in the uk was called queen elizibeth money

[DBest]

O there are more of those interviews, look on the side to the right.

[azntechguy]

The video does prove that Americans are stupid. The makers of the video can't spell right either in American-English or British-English, which that interviewer tries to imitate (he sucks at it)

And of course, that map test has one flaw... the people can say "you haven't provided us a blank geographical map and hence, I'm just adhering to the labelling you guys used" LOL

[katinka]

I loved it. As did my mother.

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quote name='NickC' post='62659' date='Apr 9 2007, 04:21 PM']
They make fun of President Bush in all sorts of ways. No body defends him -.-

People don't need to try to make fun of Bush. He does it for himself. See the following things that he actually said for reference:

They misunderestimated me.
- US President George W. Bush (November 6, 2000 in Bentonville, Arkansas)

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
- US President George W. Bush (August 5, 2004)

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
- US President George W. Bush (2000?)

Reading is the basics for all learning.
- US President George W. Bush (Discussing his "Reading First" plan in Reston, Virginia, March 28, 2000)

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
- US President George W. Bush (January 11, 2000)

My views are one that speaks to freedom.
- US President George W. Bush (in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 29, 2004)

And it's a struggle between good and it's a struggle between evil.
- US President George W. Bush in a speech (on terrorism) to the Cattle Industry Annual Convention and Trade Show at the Denver Convention Center (February 8, 2002)

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
- US President George W. Bush (2000 in Des Moines, Iowa)

Our nation must come together to unite.
- US President George W. Bush (June 4, 2001)

If you choose to do so, when Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and persecuted as a war criminal.
- US President George W. Bush (In St. Louis on January 22, 2003, he likely meant 'prosecuted.')

Will the highways on the Internet become more few?
- US President George W. Bush (Concord, New Hampshire, January 29, 2000)

If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!
- US President George W. Bush (November 2, 2000 at Bellevue Community College)

I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
- US President George W. Bush (September 29, 2000 in Saginaw, Michigan)

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family
- US President George W. Bush (January 27, 2000 in New Hampshire)

This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed.
- US President George W. Bush (November 6, 2003 in Washington, D.C.)

Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
- US President George W. Bush (October 2000)

[Greencontainer14]

"who was the first man on the moon?"
"Well Armstrong walked on the moon but I think it was a Russian guy." ..., Was she serious? There was at least one smart guy who knew North Korea has nuclear weapons. Well he did say "nuclear" . Hopefully he meant nuclear weapons. It was kind of funny though but it's just sad that many people in the rest of the world probably see all Americans this way.

This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed.
- US President George W. Bush (November 6, 2003 in Washington, D.C.)... . is this seriously the president of the United States?

[tycoonboy388]

DBest, on Apr 9 2007, 06:45 PM, said:

I agree (not on the triangle). Was this even a real interview??? C'mon it said CNNNN. The whole thing was funny and stupid, especially the part when they all pointed at Australia, and the lady said the currency in the uk was called queen elizibeth money

DBest, you happen to be very right. This is a fake news broadcast. CNNNN is an Australian Satirical News program, basically their version of the Daily Show. CNNNN is basically a satire of CNN and Fox News, the cable news style of 24 hour broadcasting. You can find out more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNNNN

It makes me feel better that this is meant to be funny, and therefore the polling is severly warped (and possibly staged) to achieve such a result.

[randomania3]

I didn't think most of the video was staged. Seeing what CNNNN is helped though. I watched the video and what got to me was how some people honestly seemed to think their completely wrong answers were right. Its ok not to know everything, but to fake it so badly? I'm only glad that they obviously had selective choosing and that that doesn't really represent much of America.

[zaccariah2005]

I think they were all Republican...

[leo2car]

It makes me very happy to say that because of Bush's NO CHILD LET BEHIND, we are going to have more of this idiot in this country and running us.

I want to kill the people that says Israel is Muslim and a terror organization. Bush sounds like he knows more and he has an IQ of 50.

[katinka]

leo2car, on Apr 10 2007, 05:14 PM, said:

It makes me very happy to say that because of Bush's NO CHILD LET BEHIND, we are going to have more of this idiot in this country and running us.

What does no child left behind have to do with this? Not that i think its perfect, but what does it have to do with this?