i hate him because he just stands around talking to people for hours upon hours then selects the stupid ones and goes SEE THIS IS AMERICA if you stand anywhere and talk to everyone for 6 hours you will get enough stupid people for a segment
I think that's the point. We're allowing ourselves to become a nation of uneducated idiots that will believe in any outrageous or blatant falsehood out there. Trust me I've had several jobs where casual talk was part of my job and this is actually pretty accurate, even when I was in college a good percentage didn't know even the most basic facts about any subject. There was one kid that thought the Suez Canal was literally in the middle of Africa and kept insisting even after he was told he was wrong. There were people that could barely read.
At the end, Bill O'Reilly literally asks him if he just edits out the right answers and only shows wrong ones and Watters says no. He keeps the ratio of right-answers to wrong-answers the same from his interviews to the chopped-down version. Otherwise it would be like 10 minutes long.
Watch the full thing before you make stupid, and wrong, comments.
Wouldn't really make a great segment if they asked a bunch of easy questions and then everyone got them right. Its O'Reilly, you realize the heavy biased that you're getting into before you even start watching it.
The girl in the pink and white with the sun hat just proved a stereotype wrong
And **** American's I'm Irish and I could answer every ******* question he asked, what kinda schools do you have over there? Please tell me these people were just thick as **** and from California
NOOOOOOOPE, this is the average voting stock plucked from any place of higher learning in our country, we dont reward learning here its all about who listens well to their liberal teachers, spout off about racism and socialism at every turn, math class, science, history, all my teachers were very vocal liberals who called republicans racists openly in class... art teacher sent me to the corner (in high school) because I told her to stop dragging politics of the iraq war into art class
I don't get that whatsoever, Like if you were to ask me about any semi major war or big world event even the most retarded people in Ireland would know it, An as for your cunt liberal teachers, I don't know that pisses me off beyond belief How the **** did the black guys not know what the American civil war was about?
They didn't free themselves that's for sure, If I asked an Irish person how we got free of the British after nearly 800 years and they didn't know I'd deck them in the mouth, And anyone of my lads would to, It's ******* disrespectful
Sorry but we kind of don't need to. Reporter said it himself: he wasn't even looking for dumb looking people and did not edit out the right answers. He also said that he had 10 minutes worth of material with the bad ones. So in this case at least we did not even need to generalize. Some people picked @ random, almost all uneducated and stupid as bricks. I know more about USA history than them and I'm from Poland.
you just generalized again. I will admit, though it pains me, many of the people in my country don't care to learn it's history, and they are definitely not the brightest people. I'm just a little tired of people assuming that I'm an idiot simply because I was born in and choose to live in the country that I love.
i disagree. i believe knowing the history of your country should be a ******* standard. me make immigrants learn it before they get a visa or green card why should we expect less from our natural born citizens?
but that does nothing... a bunch of older just seen a bunch of stupid college kids on the news. big whoop. there are always gonna be people like those college kids when you live in a country as "free" as america
maybe they will hold their own children to a higher standard. it is vitally important to know what happened in the past or the past will be twisted to suit a future someone else wants.
okay, im gonna draw up some plans and do a little research on how we can get this **** going. ill contact you when i have more info. oh, and i could be going to jail tomorrow, so it could be several months before you hear back from me. im really not even playing. funny how a country so proud of its freedom runs on the money it gets from imprisonment
Whether anyone won the Cold War has been debated ever since it ended. Not really sure why the guy was deemed correct, but I assume it's because from a subjective point of view American's would like to think they won?