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| 22% Believe Bush Knew About 9/11 Attacks in Advance | |||
| 2007-05-05 | |||
Democrats in America are evenly divided on the question of whether George W. Bush knew about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in advance. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Democrats believe he did know, 39% say he did not know, and 26% are not sure.
Overall, 22% of all voters believe the President knew about the attacks in advance. A slightly larger number, 29%, believe the CIA knew about the attacks in advance. White Americans are less likely than others to believe that either the President or the CIA knew about the attacks in advance. Young Americans are more likely than their elders to believe the President or the CIA knew about the attacks in advance. However, just 8% of voters say the CIA was Very Truthful before the War in Iraq. Another 33% believe the CIA was Somewhat Truthful. Most, 52%, believe the CIA was Not Very Truthful or Not at All Truthful before the War.
Former CIA Director George Tenet doesnÂ’t fare so well. He is viewed favorably by 29% of voters and unfavorably by 49%. Just 12% have followed news stories about TenetÂ’s new book Very Closely. Another 29% have followed the stories Somewhat Closely. Fifty-six percent (56%) have not been following the news stories about Tenet.
Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. | |||
| Posted by:Steve |
| #16 Just what I figured. 61 percent of dimicrats are idiots Nah, you're low by 39% |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-05-05 23:26 |
| #15 We have let too many inmates out of the asylum. Stupidity should have a hard price. But it has no cost at all to be paid by those espousing it. There is no concept of shame left in the country. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-05-05 23:01 |
| #14 Those who believe the lunar expeditions were faked strike me as the most un-American of all. The level of willful ignorance required to both deny our technical supremacy and attribute such a perversion of reality to our government goes beyond rationality. Rest assured, the 9-11 truthers come a close second, but to intentionally desire that America be stripped of its crowning scientific achievement betrays a vicious and unreasoning hatred of our nation's well-deserved greatness. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-05 22:12 |
| #13 Probably most, tu3031. And that if they close their eyes and meditate just right, they'll be levitating instead of bouncing in a half lotus on the piled mattresses. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-05-05 21:33 |
| #12 What percentage actually believes the moon landings were faked but that UFOs are real? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-05-05 21:25 |
| #11 I'm sure a big chunk of them also believe that there was a huge conspiracy involving thousands of people to kill Kennedy, and that FDR knew the Japanese were going to bomb Pearl Harbor and did nothing about it. |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2007-05-05 21:19 |
| #10 Take heart, if 22% by weight believe Bush knew in advance, then Rosie alone makes for half of that. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-05-05 21:09 |
| #9 The corrosive cynicism engendered by pushing this baseless conspiracy theory is a huge asset to the Truthers and the rest of the radical Left. And since it is almost impossible to disprove a negative, they will continue to get a lot of mileage out of this and their "stolen elections" screed. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-05-05 19:27 |
| #8 At first glance, the most amazing part of this is the number of Republican who profess these idiotic beliefs. If they believe it, why the hell are they still Republicans? A possible explanation for this is that Republican truthers tend to be concentrated in the fringe libertarian and extreme religious right elements, people who really have nowhere else to go politically. At Free Republic, the mods will suppress overt truther propaganda, but the place is crawling with "stealth truthers," obtuse morons who desperately attempt to disrupt any string that addresses the issue. If you check the profiles of these vermin, you will find one of two things: extreme Bible-thumping authoritarianism, or raw-meat "abolish public schools and legalize dope" libertarianism. The detestable liar Alex Jones is by and large a libertarian, if his insane worldview can be said to have any relation to real-world politics at all. Among the religious element, Creationist Whack-job and anti-democracy activist Kent Hovind (now in prison for tax fraud) was one of the first to publicly assert that the 9-11 attacks were staged by the US government. (yeah, I know it's Wikipedia, but the article has a wealth of legitimate links). I have a modest proposal for GOP leaders: Identify the truthers who are registered Republicans and expel them from the party. Obviously, the RNC cannot change a voter's stated affiliation, but they can revoke a known truther's membership in RNC-affiliated organizations, and publicly rebuke them and refuse their contributions. In short, the RNC can publicly do whatever is within their power to repudiate the truthers individually and they can call this process "expulsion." This would show up the Democrats by doing something the Rodent leadership could never even consider. |
| Posted by: Groluns Ulomort5343 2007-05-05 19:12 |
| #7 Did America get anything out of 9-11? There were huge economic losses as industries had to readadjust to a security based social system. The predominance of service sector enterprises, post 9-11, is a danger in itself. On every measure, in general Americans are worse off after September 11, 2001. If there was a grand conspiracy, someone would have bailed out of the scheme since disclosure would pay. Perhaps a Commission study on conspiracy thinking might serve the public good. Of course, the "truther" weasels would include that scheme within their paranoid delusions. |
| Posted by: Sneaze 2007-05-05 18:44 |
| #6 Those are the people that need removed from the gene pool. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-05-05 17:58 |
| #5 22%. That's about the bottom level of 1) BDS, 2) support of Congress. 2) any Donk candidate who gets the nomination. This is the bottom line of party membership which will drink Koolaid. How many are willing to 'fight and die' is probably lower [though they are more than willing to expend others for their belief which means they're more than happy to take all of us with them], but they'll never ever give up their allegiance to the party above all others - country, community, heritage, etc. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-05-05 17:37 |
| #4 Jeez, we have a bunch of crazies in this country. This explains why so many people are scammed by the Nigerian 419 scams. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-05-05 17:35 |
| #3 In related news: All of these people can vote. Or maybe not. Perhaps convicted felons are more prone than non-felons to claim lunatic b*llsh*t when confronted with poll questions. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-05-05 17:07 |
| #2 Remember the 'My Pet Goat' episode? That was used to justify Bush-bashing on the basis that Bush didn't act decisively enough to rush to protect the country from the 911 attacks. So either the belief in the minds (used loosely) of these people is that president is an incompetent dullard or he is complicit in the 911 attacks because he knew about them and did nothing to prevent them. Not known for consistency in belief, the constant is BDS. |
| Posted by: WTF 2007-05-05 16:14 |
| #1 BDS writ large. This is simply dispicable. White Americans are less likely than others to believe that either the President or the CIA knew about the attacks in advance. As usual, The Man is down on the coloreds! American minorities, especially blacks, really need to get over their victim mentality and pull up their own socks. Bill Cosby's searing indictment of them was incredibly spot on. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-05 16:05 |