PonyOne. I’d have to agree with a lot of the stuff you said. The media is just showing people what they want to see and they just want ratings and viewers, to achieve this they show murders, robberies and terrorists attacks, scaring the people into thinking that no one’s safe. No one can escape the constant terrorist threat. Bar up the windows and lock your doors.

Yes. Many Americans are intelligent and smart and could see through the media and president’s lies. Many would know were the UK is and Australia. So yes. The show CNNNN did just show the stupid answers to get a laugh but even 20 out of 100 not knowing where even the UK is, is far too many.

There are stupid people everywhere and there are some EXTREMELY stupid people that I know, here in Australia. One believed that elephants shed their skin, wasn’t certain if she was albino or not and thought her horse could travel 1km in 3 seconds. She obviously got laughed at a lot, like the Americans on the show, but she still knows where America, UK and Iraq are (not implying that all Aussies know where they are).

I wrote what I wrote because I was pissed off. At what, I don’t know. Perhaps it is because Australia is becoming too much like America so much to the point that even what Australia sees itself as is false. The fit, bronzed Aussie is now the fat, lazy Aussie with Australia now second behind USA as the fattest nation.

But what you said about the Palestinians doesn’t fit. America has over 70 murders a day and over 220 millions guns but the Palestinians sicken you.

I still believe America should set an example as the ‘responsible parent’, being the only super power and deciding who’s good and who’s bad in the world, by destroying their own nuclear weapons.