The Underground Conservative

Filmmaker John Ziegler has a new website promoting a documentary he is making on the 2008 election.

The site is called How Obama Got Elected, and it prominently features this video of supporters of Barack Hussein Obama which reveals not only their lack of knowledge on the presidential and vice presidential candidates but also the decided impact of media bias.

Some amazing statistics from a John Zogby poll, which correlates with the information Ziegler has uncovered as well:

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)

56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).

And yet…..

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter

And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.

Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we “gave” one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)

That last point is correct, but you’d never know it from the Drive By Media. The nutroots took the Tina Fey statement, inserted it into Palin’s mouth and, since it fit the “Palin is an idiot and a female version of Dan Quayle” meme that had been created, it spread and became a statement attributed to Palin rather than Fey. It didn’t help that the McCain campaign never bothered to refute it, either.

The frightening thought is people this ignorant actually voted. Talk about disenfranchisement of the intelligent.

Update: over at Hot Air, Ed Morrisey adds:

[T]he rest of these results show the abysmal state of media coverage of Barack Obama.  It’s not that the voters couldn’t absorb data provided to them by the Tanning Bed Media; these voters quite obviously learned plenty about Sarah Palin.  In the video, the subjects demonstrate that by assigning every stupid thing said on the campaign trail to Palin whether she said it or not.  Meanwhile, no one can figure out what Barack Obama said, how he conducted his campaign, or his political history.

As for the video, without the Zogby poll, it would be hilarious but without context.  Anyone can find fools for “man on the street” interviews; Jay Leno does it as a regular staple for the Tonight Show.  Zogby’s poll shows that Ziegler’s video is no anomaly.  Wait for the end, where the ignorant endorse their favorite media outlets, which is the real highlight of this project.

The sources of information for these enlightened voters includes Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, NPR, PBS, the Commie News Network, al-New York Times, PMSNBC and the British Bullshit Corporation.

The first three are comedians. All that was missing was Jay Leno and David Letterman as news sources.

This reminded me of a Leno “Jaywalking” segment, although with much more tragic results for America.