Pic Of The Moment: You Won't Believe How Clueless Louisiana Republicans Are

[EarlG]

Poll: Louisiana GOPers Unsure If Katrina Response Was Obama's Fault

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[JohnnyRingo]

1. I'm sure a negligible number blamed Hillary Clinton.

... for her 2016 first term, and at least a few looked around the room and answered "lampshade".

[Fantastic Anarchist]

43. "I love lamp!" nt

[AAO]

48. I love carpet.

I like turtles!

[modrepub]

55. By my math

28%+29%+44% = 101% More dumbness....

[kentauros]

66. Journalists round numbers to nearest whole numbers,

or to big numbers, such as millions and billions. For example:

27.5% = 28%
28.5% = 29%

[modrepub]

76. Yea I figured

But reround to make it add up to 100%

[calimary]

2. They're so stupid they don't even know how stupid they are.

Even their own governor was the guy who said republi-CONS should stop being the "Stupid Party." Too late, jindal... They're too stupid to realize how stupid they are.

I tell ya - this just makes it. Just MAKES it. There's all the proof you'll ever need.

Sigh...

[rocktivity]

23. Though Jindal's not smart enough to leave the Stupid Party...

rocktivity

[warrant46]

51. The sheep--- being made in the Louisiana education system

Obviously there are not a lot of current affairs discussed in the family. And no one apparently reads or is aware of history

[wordpix]

58. gotta be a problem with LA education system, I agree. The stoopid is just too much

[GeorgeGist]

56. Republicans couldn't get elected if it weren't for the stupids.

[Theoted]

63. No surprise

Shame on me .... For not even being slightly surprised by the Katrina poll results. Do they even have schools in Louisiana? Bet your bottom dollar that silly "Fox News" is popular in that state!

[geckosfeet]

3. This really absurd. They KNOW it was buSh(it) but out ignorance, spite and hate they blame O.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

59. I honestly think they *forget* that they once lived through it

Or more likely, tuned out what they didn't want to know.

Clueless is just a polite word for "Unevolved Hominids who think they're at the top of the food chain."

They think they're the shit. And they'd be right.

[Cosmocat]

70. Yeah

I DO think there actually is a disturbing amount of people who would not know.

But, I can tell you for a fact, I have COUNTLESS republican/conservative people I know that if I brought this up, they would say, "Well, if in fact ..." and find some completely senseless rationalization to put blame on Obama.

[Johonny]

4. My only conclusion of this is that Obama has a secret time travel program

and so far only Louisiana has been targeted. All other conclusions would be insane.

[nyquil_man]

5. I have a hard time finding anybody who will even admit to voting for Arbusto.

It's the best vanishing act this side of Jimmy Hoffa.

[calimary]

62. Same thing happened with nixon. After Watergate and his resignation, you couldn't pay people

to admit they voted for him.

Well how'd he get in, then?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. It's a simple fomula...

1st: Blank totally on the Bush Years since he turned out to be unpopular.

2nd: Keep feeling Obama has been in office FOREVER. (Well, it SEEMS like forever)

3rd: Forget the third thing.

Result: Obama was President during Katrina.

[lark]

8. While I'm sure there are some great intelligent people in LA.

There are obviously a lot of really, really, dumb folks as well - and it appears that the majority might fit the later category. I live in FL, so really can't throw a lot of stones, lots of stupid rednecks here too.

[azureblue]

11. fortunately

New Orleans is not part of Louisiana, politically speaking..

[juajen]

22. Hey, New Orleans would say they definitely are a part of Louisiana

The difference is that in South Louisiana, we are dominated by a Catholic and French state of mind. Drink a lot and often, and get quick absolution if you commit adultery or any of those other silly Southern Protestant rules. It's really North Louisiana that is not a part of "Louisiana". Strictly bible belt up there and don't ask for forgiveness or dare have a good time. It's a different world.

Laissez les bons temps rouler! Good times are why South Louisiana gets the tourist money, and the food is divine. Ya'll come on down.

[geckosfeet]

34. well - 29% of them responded to the poll - that is a big slice of the population if you ask me

[azureblue]

9. and when they are face to face

with the facts that show Bush cut the ACOE budget to the bone for three years, cuts that stopped in progress repair work (SELA 1995) on the very levees that failed, they still refuse to believe it. And they refuse to believe even though they experienced it first hand that Bush refused to put pre hurricane emergency relief personnel in place before Katrina hit.

[juajen]

24. I agree 100 percent.

Conservatives do not like facts and will refute them in every stupid way they can. I love my conservatives friends, but sometimes it is very hard to believe that we live in the same country, for they rarely have statistics or backup for anything they absolutely declare is true. It's enough if they heard it on Fox and Limbaugh.

I believe Critical Thinking should be taught beginning in grade school, but am not holding my breath, for this is the very reason conservatives decry a college education, and also why they are trying and succeeding in packing Boards of Education all over the country with christian conservatives. They are determined to eliminate science and history, and put in place a stupid religious curriculum.

[maddiemom]

28. In quite a few years of teaching I did my best with critical thinking. I tried to insert it

everywhere I could. It needs to be taught before anything else. Fortunately I never had to deal with many of the parents who are so vocal today. Outraged that their kids might question any of the prejudices they're taught at home! These parents have the idea that the schools are trying to undermine their values. Not at all. Just learn to question and evaluate, not simply accept beliefs without thinking. Critical thinking simply is what it is. Don't blindly follow your teachers anymore than your family.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. Values that can be undermined by critical thinking deserve to be undermined. nt

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

72. I was just doing a quick read of DU without sigining in, but I had to sign in to rec this response.

I know there's no button to click for that, but let me just say + about a million!

The sad and scary thing is the research that seems to say that the more you present RWers with facts that refute their nonsensical beliefs, the more they cling to those beliefs. The little I have seen of Fox Noise shows such hypocrisy and illogical thinking that it's hard to see how anyone could not discern the BS, yet look at how popular the RW view is. The "middle' is so far right now that even Reagan is almost a lefty.

[Coyotl]

10. It is unfair to the human race to poll just the ignorant people.

Makes us all seem stupid

[Stuart G]

16. Movie based upon the breeding of stupid and ignorant people...Idocracy...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

Yes, there is such a movie....Idiocracy...................

Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.

....have fun with the movie...this poll is almost unreal...

[Coyotl]

19. Be sure to watch the doc film "Stupidity"

[Gus Lammas]

12. Old Joke

"I'd like you to meet my wife, and my sister," said the man from Shreveport. I looked, and there was only one woman standing there.

[juajen]

25. Well, after all, that is bible based.

[kairos12]

13. In other news, Obama is blamed for Pearl Harbor, the Lindberg Kidnapping, and Challenger explosion

[cynzke]

14. Probably so....

in LA.

[juajen]

27. Oh come on. I live here and you are painting with a broad brush.

It's true in all states that have people who are conservative and liberal. It's called a democracy, get it? How could we have one if we didn't have different points of view? Blue states and red states and purple states are what we are made of. It is when we are not moving forward in a definitive way that we realize we have a lot of uneducated people who are being led by their noses into an abyss, and there are so many of them, that we are, so to speak, at the bottom of a ravine and cannot climb out.

It is important to attempt to have more smart people in office and running our Boards of Education, city governments and state legislatures, but we should never be anti-political variation. It keeps us hopping and evolving. After all, we should never be the party that they are; that is, a party that wants the annihilation of their opposition. Democracy = compromise, and never forget it.

[Coyotl]

20. No, but Popocatepetl yes.

That's all Roosevelt's fault

[JRLeft]

39. When all fails blame Obama.

[Drunken Irishman]

31. WELL HE WAS BORN IN HAWAII!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

44. Don't forget the Biblical Flood, the fall of the Holy Roman Empire ...

... the Plague, and the Inquisition.

All kidding aside, there are legitimate criticisms to be had, but coming from the right-wing, legitimacy is in short supply.

[The CCC]

15. Pic Of The Moment: You Won't Believe How Clueless Louisiana Republicans Are

I wouldn't say "clueless" more like arrogantly ignorant.

[NewJeffCT]

17. Time to break out an oldie, but goodie

[Iliyah]

18. This just solidifies that the goper base

are clueless and it transforms as well in other states even in California. Some movie came out last year about Pres O being the devil and how he was gonna destroy America and the world and co-workers thought it was gospel.

[Autumn Colors]

21. Poll results in article (& graphic) total 101% .... ??

The graphic is great and gets the point across that people are idiots, but just wondering about the math in the original poll/article.

[kentauros]

67. Blame journalists.

Journalists round numbers to nearest whole numbers, or to big numbers, such as millions and billions. For example:

27.5% = 28%
28.5% = 29%
........ + 44%
_____= 100%

or

__28% = 28%
28.5% = 29%
43.5% = 44%
_____= 100%

[Turbineguy]

26. Hey! it's hard work

being a dumb fuck!

[TRoN33]

30. Hey Southerners....

I don't often doing like this but this is an exception for Louisiana people. Their ignorance are just way beyond the paradigm leap into the oblivion we have never seen before. If polls were to be conducted in states like Vermont or Oregon, these states would have 90% blaming W. Bush while 9.99% unsure and .01% goes directly at Obama...

Hey, it has to be oil-tainted water you guys are drinking...

[kentauros]

68. Your numbers are off,

due to "forgetting" about East Oregon and East Washington. I know most in the PNW would like to forget about the eastern halves of their states, but you gotta 'own' them as much as those of us in the South have to 'own' the nuts.

Forget the nuts at your peril.

[whopis01]

32. What's the saying about how a half-breed muslin butterfly can flap its wings in Kenya

in 1961 that can cause a hurricane 50 years later?

I'm pretty sure that's how things work.

[krispos42]

33. What's shocking is that fully 28%...

...DO have a clue!

[progressoid]

35. Derp.

[totodeinhere]

36. Actually it was Barack Obama's fault.

It doesn't matter that he wasn't even president then. You see everything is always his fault.

[rexcat]

37. It's not just Louisiana republicans..

who are clueless. It's all republicans!

[tanyev]

38. In related news, 29% were also found to have trouble finding backside with both hands

in a room full of mirrors.

[Bill USA]

40. Carumba!

[erpowers]

41. Just Do Not Want To Blame President Bush?

Is it at all possible that the Republicans who answered that poll question just did not want to blame President Bush. It seems that many of these people may be well aware that President Bush is mainly responsible for the aftermath of Hirricane Katrina; however, they just do not want to have to admit that he holds the responsibility.

I also wonder if some of these people are just being pissy. It is possible that some of the people are angered by the question. Clearly it was not then Senator Obama's fault that the federal government handled Hurricane Katrina so poorly, but in their view they may feel "if you ask a stupid question you will get a stupid answer".

[NOLALady]

53. I live here.

I really doubt they were being "pissy".

[Enthusiast]

74. Republicans are just

as stupid in Ohio. I know, little consolation.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

75. Republicans are unjust.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

42. In a nation that celebrates stupidity, did you expect a different result?

[Initech]

45. If we had a real media instead of a polarizing one, 100% of the blame would be on Bush.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

46. thats what happens when you believe that just being born american makes you special

and gutting education.

mostly gutting education.

[DCBob]

47. Southern Republican conservatives must be the most ignorant humans on this planet.

Unbelievable.

[tclambert]

49. There you go again, expecting people to remember things like facts or history

and expecting those memories to make any difference to their beliefs. Those are just the devil's tools to tempt the faithful into doubting the greater truth--that whatever they believe in strongly enough IS the truth.

Seriously, how can democracy work if voters think like this? Was Plato right?

[wtmusic]

50. It was TOTALLY President Katrina's fault nt

[LaPera]

52. Republicans are the dumbest fucks on earth.....

Watching Fox news & listening to the pigman Limbaugh that purposely misguides their fears & hatred for people of color, women, other religions, gay people and the poor (like themselves) these are the stupidest, most misinformed, uniformed, uneducated, gullible people on the face of the earth - these imbecile vote against their own best interest because of their programed fear and hatred.....It must be a painful existence for these sheep believing every lie from their hypocritical greedy compassion-less oppressive republican masters and sickening hateful Christian hate mongering preachers.

[Kennah]

54. Betting that 55% or more also said, "Trucks is good"

[Matariki]

57. Maybe 28% were sarcastic hipsters?

And the other percent simply hopeless

[Sparkly]

60. Watergate: Nixon or Obama?

Iran-Contra: Reagan or Obama?

These people are incredible.

[Mr.Bill]

61. Ask any Republican which two presidents doubled the national debt while in office.

Most common answer I get - "I know Carter was one of them."

[HumansAndResources]

64. Most Americans Can't Name a Country that Starts with "U"

Ask a sample of dems about unsavory things that happened or continued during the last 6 years, and they will blame Bush for them. Describe the NDAA-2011 without giving the year, and see.

The fact is, those who get their (dis)information from the MSM - left or right flavors, both owned and run by the same Transnationals and Billionaires - get 1/2 or less of the truth. They are taught to "blame the other puppet" of the same puppetmasters. That is the plan - how "divide and conquer" works, and Elite power is perpetuated.

[kentauros]

69. Can't say I've ever heard of "NDAA-2011", much less be able to describe it,

but "divide and conquer" is in place on DU constantly. As Liberals, we're supposed to be "all for one, and one for all" kind of thinking. You know, compassionate, generous, forgiving. Just watch how any anti-South thread devolves into the worst DU has to offer. Or how the money-worshippers show up whenever it appears someone on welfare is "gasp" buying junkfood with the money given to them.

Unconditional love is a foreign concept on DU.

[Ian_rd]

65. These people vote.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

71. I'd bet the ones who blamed Obama are mostly dicking around with the pollsters.

[NOLALady]

77. I don't think so.

You would not believe the conversations I've heard.

My husband gets a kick out of challenging them. He'll usually ask an opinion on something or the other (Obamacare, privatizing the local hospitals, charter schools, etc.). After they give some ridiculous RW talking point answer, he will talk facts and point out how they act against their best interests. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

[certainot]

73. if anyone on the left doubts the effectiveness of blanketing a state with unchallenged RW blowhards

on loud local RW radio stations, protected by call screeners and prompted by paid callers, with sports team stickers from the state funded local schools and pro teams on their megaphones, they're idiots.

local nor national fox TV can't do that. you can't do that with emails and blogs either.

RW radio is the only reason for that stupidity (and the teabagness), and the left continues to ignore the same effect in almost every state in the country.

considering the time lost on global warming, ignoring RW radio is the biggest political mistake in history.