Considering everyone knows Iraq used WMDs on their own Kurdish population in the 1980s, we know they at least HAD the weapons… and in 20 years, Iraq has been unable or unwilling to show that they have dismantled their programs or any remaining WMDs.

And somehow, this poll determines that if a particular viewer believes that “Iraq possessed WMDs,” they were under a “misperception” and therefore less intelligent than other viewers.

Note that the “selected” knowledge items are very, very “selective.” Daily Show/Colbert viewers receive a 54% “high knowledge group,” while O’Reilly viewers get a 51%… and yet if you average the scores of the four “selected” items, Daily Show/Colbert viewers average 51.25% while O’Reilly viewers average 51%.

It makes you wonder what the other questions were that caused such a jump in the “overall score” of DS/C viewers. Perhaps they were the types of unanswerable questions like “Does Iraq have WMDs?”

Lastly, comparing the viewers of DS/C (who are generally young and either in college or recent graduates) to the entire viewership of a cable news network (the #1 ranked cable news network, by the way) is simply too big of a jump to make. Who’s more likely to be able to name Scooter Libby: A 23-year old PoliSci graduate student, or a 65-year-old reverend in South Dakota?

Any first-year statistics student could debunk this ridiculous poll.

[ed note: I stopped reading upon your assertion that Iraq had WMD's in the 1980's. Hell, if we all went to war based on what someone had decades earlier... ah, hell. I'm not gonna get stupid like you.]

Also, please note that O’Reilly’s show ranked higher than any of the typical left wing outfits which didn’t even make the list.

[ed note: you know what happens when you ASSume, Doug. The article is on Fox, not MSNBC; therefore, only an idiot would try to make some sort of non sequitur comparison between some wanker on Fox and the entirety of MSNBC.]