Decades ago, people read Time magazine. It gave a detailed summary of the week's news and helped keep America informed. Between the internet, cable news, and other news sources, those days are long gone. Time is now a shadow of what it was. Until today, however, I had never looked at Time as the home of idiocy.
This afternoon, I read an article posted on Time Ideas. Written by Jon Meacham, the article is entitled "Why Obama Hasn't Lost the South". It is once of the dumbest articles I have read in a long time. The essence of the article is that after Obama came out with his latest position on gay marriage, the South should have been thought to be lost to Obama, but it is not. And what is Meacham's proof of this "fact"? The answer is simple: in the Real Clear Politics averages of polling for each of the southern states carried in 2008 by Obama, the president still has a slight lead in each.
That may sound like pretty strong support for the argument that Obama's flip flop on gay marriage has not lost him support in the South until I add one salient fact that Meacham and Time decided not to mention. All of the polls to which Meacham makes reference were taken prior to Obama's announcement of his new gay marriage position. Is that clear enough? First the polls were taken showing a close race, then Obama announced his new position. Since that announcement, there have been no polls in the states in question.
Simply put, the Time article is idiotic. Can it be that Meacham and the editors at Time are that dumb? Do they think Americans are fools? What in the world is going on there?
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