According to a Center for Public Leadership/U.S. News poll, discussed in the Nov. 19 issue of U.S. News & World Report (page 46):

1) The entity people have the LEAST amount of confidence in is---put on your seat belt---the entertainment industry. Only 7% of the public have a "great deal of confidence" in that industry. Who'd a thunk it?

2) The entity people have the second LEAST amount of confidence in is the---believe it or not---news media. Only 8% of the public have a "great deal of confidence" in that industry. Moreover, 52% of the public believe the news media are too liberal. Only 27% believe those media are too conservative.

3) Only 9% of the public have a "great deal of confidence" in Congress. Not much of a surprise there.

4) A sobering finding for conservatives is that the public also has little confidence in "business leaders." They are ranked almost as low as the entertainment industry and news media and Congress. Only 12% of the public have a "great deal of confidence" in business leaders.

5) Another significant finding, a good news/bad news thing for objective, fair-minded people, is that the entity people have the MOST confidence in---ranking above doctors, religious leaders, the Supreme Court, etc.---is the MILITARY. About SIX TIMES as many people have a "great deal of confidence" in the military (40% of the public) as those who have a great deal of confidence in the entertainment industry (only 7%). So, despite (or because of?) all the efforts by the dominant liberal media to denigrate the armed forces, the media fare much worse in the eyes of the public than the military.

(The bad news aspect of that finding on the military---and it shouldn't be ignored by impartial people grounded in reality---is that none other than President and General Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about the "military/industrial complex." There are corrupt elements in the so-called "right wing" of the country as well as the left.)

Can we not conclude from the above findings that liberals tend to grossly underestimate the intelligence of the public? Can we not conclude that the media's propaganda is not working very well, that it is falling on a lot of deaf ears?

Liberal Democrats must believe that propaganda is effective, however. Seemingly drunk on power, they have rushed to overplay their hand. They have come way out of their closets and again revealed their true "tax and spend" natures as well as their anti-traditional-value natures, and have demonstrated they aren't as deserving of trust regarding our nation's defenses and borders as conservatives are.

If conservatives are intelligent in their opposition to the wayward liberal agenda (if they don't screw it up) the pendulum---which never seems to stay in one place very long---could swing back to the right a lot sooner than many think.

So let's continue to convey to the public how biased---politically and otherwise---the dominant liberal media are, how they downplay or even censor inconvenient facts, and how they are trying to psychologically manipulate people into adopting corrupt liberal values (instead of honestly and fairly covering issues and letting people make up their own minds). While their credibility is already low, it deserves to be even lower. We've surely helped to bring it down this far. We should keep on being helpful.