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rubylith
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Posted - 03/01/2006 :  07:48:21 AM  Show Profile  Visit rubylith's Homepage  Reply with Quote
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11611015/

D’oh! More know Simpsons than Constitution
Study: America more familiar with cartoon family than First Amendment




CHICAGO - Americans apparently know more about “The Simpsons” than they do about the First Amendment.

Only one in four Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. (Survey: can you name the five freedoms?)

But more than half can name at least two members of the cartoon family, according to a survey.

The study by the new McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum found that 22 percent of Americans could name all five Simpson family members, compared with just one in 1,000 people who could name all five First Amendment freedoms.

Joe Madeira, director of exhibitions at the museum, said he was surprised by the results.

“Part of the survey really shows there are misconceptions, and part of our mission is to clear up these misconceptions,” said Madeira, whose museum will be dedicated to helping visitors understand the First Amendment when it opens in April. “It means we have our job cut out for us.”

The survey found more people could name the three “American Idol” judges than identify three First Amendment rights. They were also more likely to remember popular advertising slogans.

It also showed that people misidentified First Amendment rights. About one in five people thought the right to own a pet was protected, and 38 percent said they believed the right against self-incrimination contained in the Fifth Amendment was a First Amendment right, the survey found.

The telephone survey of 1,000 adults was conducted Jan. 20-22 by the research firm Synovate and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

enthuTIMsiast
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Posted - 03/01/2006 :  08:37:56 AM  Show Profile  Send enthuTIMsiast an AOL message  Reply with Quote
Maybe the Simpsons should teach the amendments. D'oh!

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rubylith
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Posted - 03/01/2006 :  08:59:49 AM  Show Profile  Visit rubylith's Homepage  Reply with Quote
thats agreat idea...I think they have done some episode about the constitution??? Right?

Shit I haven't watched the Simpsons in so long. Is it still funny?
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peewee_zz
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Posted - 03/01/2006 :  10:15:52 AM  Show Profile  Visit peewee_zz's Homepage  Reply with Quote
There was an episode with pretty much all of the characters from the "I'm only a bill" school house rock cartoon/song. They start explaining thing and then the bill carches on fire or something but they tried.

The one thing that I have to point out is in the poll they asked to name 5 rights but only 2 simpson's characters. You need to understand that since the creation of the Simpsons, El Barto and other Bart themed shirts have sold in countries and regions that don't even air the simpsons. I know more members of the Brady Bunch than I know rights granted by the 1st amendment and I hate the Brady Bunch.

The last thing I want to point out is that if The Simpsons were an educational program and not the light hearted comedy that it is, nobody would know any of the members of the Simpsons. Can any of you name all of the Wiggles? What are the name all of the characters in the magic kingdom that trolly goes to on Mr Rogers? Name one person from the original "Nick News"

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dan p.
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Posted - 03/01/2006 :  1:11:31 PM  Show Profile  Send dan p. an AOL message  Reply with Quote
all this study shows is that the simpsons are more important.

death to false metal.
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rubylith
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Posted - 03/01/2006 :  1:25:41 PM  Show Profile  Visit rubylith's Homepage  Reply with Quote
hahaa
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Arthen
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Posted - 03/01/2006 :  2:43:59 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I thought part of the 1st Amendment protected the right to watch The Simpsons...

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AGirlNamedPsycho
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Posted - 03/01/2006 :  4:17:51 PM  Show Profile  Visit AGirlNamedPsycho's Homepage  Send AGirlNamedPsycho an AOL message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by peewee_zz

Name one person from the original "Nick News"




Linda Ellerbee. I don't know why I know, but I know.
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dan p.
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Posted - 03/01/2006 :  8:48:21 PM  Show Profile  Send dan p. an AOL message  Reply with Quote
i know more about gondor's laws and system of government than i do about america's.

death to false metal.
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Arthen
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Posted - 03/02/2006 :  12:18:15 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by dan p.

i know more about gondor's laws and system of government than i do about america's.



Plus more about the lineages of the first age. You probably have a better understanding of the lines of Numenor as well...

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tericee
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Posted - 03/02/2006 :  07:06:27 AM  Show Profile  Visit tericee's Homepage  Send tericee an AOL message  Reply with Quote
Since nobody has posted it so far, here are the five freedoms:

speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances

We might as well learn something besides Linda Ellerbee.

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dan p.
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Posted - 03/02/2006 :  4:25:39 PM  Show Profile  Send dan p. an AOL message  Reply with Quote
it's true. actually, i'm kind of fuzzy on the lines of numenor. i always liked elrond's side of the family better than elros's, anyway. i think it's because i have more a problem understanding adunaic, or whatever the language of numenor is called. my elven is pretty good, so the names are easier. the house of finwe is easiest to do this way. there's finwe, who had a son curufinwe (-curu meaning clever) who was also named feanor (spirit of fire) by his mother miriel, named firiel after her death (she who sighs/dies.) finwe then remarried a vanyar named indis and bore him fingolfin and finarfin.

i can't hardly name 10 presidents, though.

death to false metal.
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CosmicHomesickAlien
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Posted - 03/04/2006 :  7:25:29 PM  Show Profile  Send CosmicHomesickAlien an AOL message  Reply with Quote
It's always nice to hear that people care more about yellow cartoon characters than the rights that people died for us to have, and now take them completely for granted. Unfortunetly you can't blame the simpsons, instead maybe the system that provides the public with that lovely halfhour of yellowy goodness.
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peewee_zz
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Posted - 03/04/2006 :  11:52:44 PM  Show Profile  Visit peewee_zz's Homepage  Reply with Quote
...or the public school system

"That's your true fan base. Everybody else will love you and leave you like an epileptic at a laser light show." -- Me
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dan p.
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Posted - 03/05/2006 :  01:00:58 AM  Show Profile  Send dan p. an AOL message  Reply with Quote
also consider that the simpsons are widely popular images, even if you don't want the show. pretty much everyone knows bart and homer. if we were being saturated by the first amendment, it'd be different. it isn't a matter of caring, it's just about what information reaches us. i mean, they teach the rights of the constitution in school, but how they teach it and what they demand you remember comes into play.

death to false metal.
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guitfiddler
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Posted - 03/06/2006 :  10:39:35 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Not to get political, but perhaps this is why the current administration is getting away with the things that they are doing. Nobody seems to care that they have the right to tap your phone, but if they somehow disrupted the Simpsons, there would be riots in the streets. “Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand”. Bodie Thoene.

But how could you not like the Simpsons. It is a damn good show.
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nofreewheelers
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Posted - 03/07/2006 :  02:06:10 AM  Show Profile  Visit nofreewheelers's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Good read I picked up... "The D'Oh of Homer." It discusses the philosophical aspects of the characters, and themes of parody, irony, politics, and ethics. AND you can riffle through it, as it's a collaboration of essays in no particular order.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812694333/qid=1141715245/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-7633497-1164865?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

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peewee_zz
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Posted - 03/07/2006 :  08:06:18 AM  Show Profile  Visit peewee_zz's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by guitfiddler

Not to get political, but perhaps this is why the current administration is getting away with the things that they are doing. Nobody seems to care that they have the right to tap your phone, but if they somehow disrupted the Simpsons, there would be riots in the streets. “Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand”. Bodie Thoene.

But how could you not like the Simpsons. It is a damn good show.



Qoute from Al Sharptin

"George W. Bush is the reason Jesus was born in a manger"

For God's sakes keep your conspiracy theories out of a MUSIC message board

"That's your true fan base. Everybody else will love you and leave you like an epileptic at a laser light show." -- Me
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guitfiddler
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Posted - 03/08/2006 :  01:37:08 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Qoute from Al Sharptin

"George W. Bush is the reason Jesus was born in a manger"


To quote Ron Burgandy:

"That doesn't make sense"

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." -Bob Dylan
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Fluffy
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Posted - 03/19/2006 :  6:12:19 PM  Show Profile  Send Fluffy an AOL message  Reply with Quote
(posted by Rubylith in thread now merged with this)
quote:


Why Americans Know More About The Simpsons Than The Constitution
And why it is a benchmark of how much danger we are in

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | March 2 2006

More Americans can name Simpsons characters than they can the freedoms that the 1st Amendment upholds. This is a benchmark of how much danger the country is in and the blame can be laid with public education.

Only one in a thousand Americans can name all five first amendment freedoms. The BBC reports, "The names of American Idol TV show judges and popular advertising slogans also proved more memorable than the five freedoms - speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances."

This kind of poll gives aid and comfort to the enemy. The Globalists read this kind of thing and it only enhances their myopic zeal to dominate and enslave us for our own good. They have brainwashed themselves using Straussian theology to believe that they have a divine right to subjugate and rule stupid people for the good of the planet.

From the very foundation of the public school system the elite made their plans clear. The goal was to psychologically mould people to create mindless drones and bricks in the wall of the system, via learning monotonously by rote and the day being divided up by pavlovian bells.

In his 1905 dissertation for Columbia Teachers College, Elwood Cubberly—the future Dean of Education at Stanford—wrote that schools should be factories "in which raw products, children, are to be shaped and formed into finished products...manufactured like nails, and the specifications for manufacturing will come from government and industry."



Similarly, the Rockefeller Education Board—which funded the creation of numerous public schools—issued a statement which read in part:

"In our dreams...people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions [intellectual and character education] fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple...we will organize children...and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way."

These are the founders of the public education system in America. The agenda from the very start was to eliminate all forms of objective thought and use education to produce automatons of the state who would shrink from embracing higher forms of intellectual pursuit and truly understanding their role and potential to advance freedom in human society.

No wonder that today a portion of Americans think that the 1st Amendment includes the right to own a pet. Lack of sufficient education about our freedoms and where they came from puts the free world in peril and if we don't increase our efforts to inform and enlighten tyrants will not squander their opportunity to create a prison planet.




Peace & Keep the Faith
Fluffy
"THE MUSIC BUSINESS IS A CRUEL AND SHALLOW MONEY TRENCH-- A LONG PLASTIC HALLWAY WHERE THIEVES AND PIMPS RUN FREE AND GOOD MEN DIE LIKE DOGS. THERE'S ALSO A NEGATIVE SIDE..." -Hunter S. Thompson
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Fluffy
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Posted - 03/19/2006 :  6:13:54 PM  Show Profile  Send Fluffy an AOL message  Reply with Quote
Guess everyone has already seen this WONDERFUL Simpsons tidbit....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=49IDp76kjPw

Why don't we get kewl stuff like that in America?

Peace & Keep the Faith
Fluffy
"THE MUSIC BUSINESS IS A CRUEL AND SHALLOW MONEY TRENCH-- A LONG PLASTIC HALLWAY WHERE THIEVES AND PIMPS RUN FREE AND GOOD MEN DIE LIKE DOGS. THERE'S ALSO A NEGATIVE SIDE..." -Hunter S. Thompson
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Arthen
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Posted - 03/19/2006 :  6:21:03 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
We do, through the power of the Internet.

I hadn't seen that video before, but I had read about it. That was really, really well done.

Steve Hackett: "I'm my own opening act, you see."
Tim (before "Faceoff"): "Peace, love....and SEX!"
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rubylith
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Posted - 03/20/2006 :  4:22:49 PM  Show Profile  Visit rubylith's Homepage  Reply with Quote
yea that was awesome
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