Stuck on Stupid

"You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to believe that the tube is reality and your own lives are unreal. You do. Why, whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube. You eat like the tube. You raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing. WE are the illusion."
--Howard Beale (Network)

The answer to Herschel Walker's question is, of course, "yes." The mainstream media firmly believes that you are that stupid.

The media serve as conduits for the distract and deflect tactics of their political allies. They believe that you will buy it hook, line, and sinker.

Indeed, they bet their business models on it.