I’m not sure whether I want to believe this question captured in a Buzzfeed post about Rick Santorum fans at Iowa caucuses was sincere or not:
In Sioux City this question was asked: “We have so much foreign influence today. I’m looking at a Coke can with a polar bear on it. Where do we go from here?”
This article appears in Dec 29, 2011 – Jan 4, 2012.
Is this the type of journalism we’ve to which we’ve been reduced? Really, Dan? This question burns so much that you had to waste space in a newspaper to ask it? No wonder you write for this publication.
@MGJ
What the article is saying is that there are Iowan’s who don’t know that polar bears live in the USA. I don’t know if this is a failure of public schools or home scholling in Iowa but Fail it is. Then, a large number of Iowan’s think we had dinosaurs walking around a few thousand years ago. Yes, this is newsworthy that this level of ignorance could happen in the 21st century in the USA.
Sorry, Kenneth, but your point is dubious. Aside from zoos and remote parts of Alaska, where in the United States do polar bears live, Kenneth? Your response would imply that they are everywhere, rather than in a small isolated part of the non-continental US. I will agree that public education is failing, but not just in Iowa; it’s failing all across the US. As far as large numbers of Iowans thinking that dinosaurs roamed around a few thousand years ago, would you please share that data with the rest of us, or are you just talking out your backside?
Dumb people hate polar bears. Are pandas and koalas next?