TCTI: Too Crazy Too Ignore
 Dave Ross

Are we really that dumb? Is it our fault?

April 27, 2012 @ 8:14 am (Updated: 9:02 am - 4/27/12 )

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The passing rate on the immigration test among Americans who were born here might shock you. (AP Photo)

In Cincinnati, Xavier University gave the immigration test to a sampling of native born Americans, and this will shock you:

The passing rate among Americans who were born here, passing means getting six out of ten correct, was 66 percent among natives.

Among natives who had a high school education or less, the pass rate was 44 percent. A spokesman from Xavier found that pathetic.

"Whether you go to college or not shouldn't matter. If you went to grade school, you should be able to answer many of these questions," said the spokesman.

Most people could name the president, they know why the flag has fifty stars, but naming the chief justice, their own governor, defining "rule of law" -- those were stumpers.

Oh and this one stumped them too:

"What did they do at the Constitutional Convention? Which is pretty much a giveaway."

And 62 percent blew that one.

But that's because they don't care. It doesn't affect their lives.

Plus the attack ads have us thinking that everyone who runs for office is a jerk anyway. However, we will pay attention to civic matters if they're interesting.

For example, I'll bet everybody can name the agency who's job it is to protect the president. I'll bet they can even name the Latin American country the president just visited.

And OK, maybe we don't know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, but being that it was a convention, and it brought in a bunch of men visiting from out of town, I bet we could tell you what happened after the Constitutional Convention. Ask us that sometime.

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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    Simple - People listen to what people tell them is important.
    April 28, 2012 6:20 am
    Thats why republicans are so closed minded sometimes, FOX winds them up like little clocks and they go crazy. This is the whole point of Dori Monson, cause a disruption by deciding left from right and stir his little stick for advertisement money, meanwhile listeners take it seriously and forget to pay attention o what matters. Hate drives hate.
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  • mobeta wrote...
    fartforce?!?!?
    April 28, 2012 7:21 am
    Your screen names says it all. You're a friken idiot! Close minded? Try the hate filled liberal one sided stations like MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC with there leftist slant on everything. Fox always presents both sides and Dori runs circles around all the others at KIRO as far as knowledge and common sense. Drink the Kool aide FARTFORCE! You are probably on some kind of Welfare or some kind of hand out.
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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    Mo, mo mo moe!
    April 28, 2012 7:53 am
    I am a simple mechanic, who works on cars and airplanes and alternative energy sources. I can see whats in front of me just as well as the next and I can diagnose a problem better than most and my hobbies include theoretical pattern solving and alternative energy production. I'm no idiot or on welfare, you should be ashamed of yourself, is that your answer for everyone who disturbs you? Besides, Dori knows just exactly what I am talking about, all shock jocks understand the basic philosophy of argument control. Dori is no exception, except he once knew that what he was doing was wrong, but recently he has convinced himself otherwise
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  • rational wrote...
    fartforce1
    April 28, 2012 7:42 am
    Hate drives hate.

    That is, in fact, the democrat party slogan and campaign strategy...foment hate...hate between races, hate against business, hate against the rich, hate against the religious,hate against anyone who thinks differently then the leftists.

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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    answer? who owns the majority of your media?
    April 28, 2012 7:58 am
    Clear-channel radio, Fox and friends, The E.I.B network, and Keith Rupert Murdoch media empire? or AirAmerica? I think the right outnumbers the by shear numbers of controlled stations and outlets by something like 29 to 1. Is it my fault people still disregard the rights absurd top down information control devices and choose to hear the clear voice of the left?
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  • mobeta wrote...
    now you're making sense!
    April 28, 2012 8:40 am
    Way to go fartforce. I stand corrected. You hit it on the head perfectly. The demo's are going to do nothing but divide us. They have no solutions to problems and will bankrupt us and this is their design. To bring us down like they bring down everyone including this nation. All they have is to breakdown everyone and not up lift anyone. The people who need it the most are the ones that are going to be hurt!
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  • mobeta wrote...
    liberals are an infestation
    April 28, 2012 6:43 am
    I read the comments on your NW page and I agree with just about all of them. People like YOU and the liberal teaching system that we have established are the rote and decay of this country, period, end of story. The liberal, whoosy, blame it on anyone but themselves and don't teach history as it should be because the teachers and the liberal left what to erase and change history and what made America great and change it to their idealistic dream (and it is a dream) and we are reaping what we sow. Facts seem to be a non-issue with liberals which you have proved and demonstrated to me when you do reply to my emails and by your nonsensical views on your radio show. Your show is simply nonsense. People like you and your thinking are the reason America is in the moral decay that we have been in for the past 40+ years. Taking GOD out of everything certainly has worked hasn't it Dave and the assault never ends until what, anarchy? You friken liberal progressive hacks are like an infestation that eats away at the beautiful tree and it looks like it will soon fall. Congratulations Dave and all your whoosy, pacifist, weed eating, tree hugging, blame it on everyone else, take no responsibly blame it on everyone else, lazy, whats in it for me but themselves liberals! We will soon be Europe and seems to have worked out well, we are both BROKE!
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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    see, Mobeta makes my point.
    April 28, 2012 7:24 am
    dummies always follow the direction Monson points them at. Educated people are called liberal because education allows s to think on a larger scare, outsider of the box that contains you. Conservatives on the other hand tend to be more wealthy, not from education but from using the box they are in effectively. i.e; lowering employees wages to increase profits, lowering their own tax base by adding to the workers, using media to control the conversation, create division in order to move their agendas forward. its not the system hats bad, its congress and senate setting meaningless criteria like no child left behind and other rules for funding that destroys the teachers ability to instruct the basics of education, like Math and sciences, much different than the Conservative ideology of educating people just long enough to fill a position in a factory line for minimal wage.
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  • mobeta wrote...
    what a bunch of bull
    April 28, 2012 9:15 am
    I just gave you a compliment and then you blow it. Lowering of wages is because there are no jobs and the jobs that are out there a company can give lower wages you dumb smack because of shear supply and demand! A rising tide raises all boats and this ship is sinking under Obummer! The food stamp president! Promise everything and give them nothing, like sheep off the cliff. Trying to hurt the rich only hurts the poor and middle class. Gezzz. Most people have no idea what Obummer is doing and we conservatives do, thats why he scares the crap out of us and we are not investing in businesses or investments and holding onto your cash like never before. I work hard, smart and risk my own money and I should reap what I sow. Then I share it with my employees when I used to have 26+ now I'm down to 2. I loved them but under this sinking ship, I refuse to invest under this impostor! Go ahead and hire this incompetent dude again and watch America go the ways of a 3rd world country the obummer wants and if you don't think it's true, look who he has hired in his cabinet and administration, all friken radicals to the max.. Welcome to the DSA, the Divided State of America! Congratulations Obummer and all you weenie lib's!
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  • mobeta wrote...
    what a narrow point of view
    April 28, 2012 11:25 am
    Poor guy! Why don't you step up and put up your own money or borrow some and start your own company and see how you would think once you put up your own funds. Get some gonneys and hire someone so you can pay people more than they are worth just so you can be a good liberal! Educate them just to fill minimum wage jobs, Obummer is doing that for you. Wages and incomes have fallen dramatically under his rule. Food stamps at all time highs 3 times what they were just 5 years ago. No wonder we are broke as a nation. Keep printing money and see what it is worth. Only the poor and middle class will be hurt. Keep thinking Obummer will provide for you like FDR did. BTW, poverty is still with us bigger and better than ever because of liberal give a way programs and making more and more people dependent on government just like he wants. Making a bunch of weak sucks.
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  • Rangerhawk wrote...
    Was the test in English?
    April 29, 2012 8:37 am
    "Press one for english."
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