You're late to the party. That was already done back in 1814. ;-P

Oh do behave Guy, just because you think you haven't got one ....

You know this place is really getting to be a meeting point for subversists. So when are we going to burn down the White House then?

No worries, it happens ;-))

Read the last line of the quote in my post please .....

Oh. hehe. My bad.

Read the last line of the quote in my post please .....

MSNBC is an American basic cable and satellite news television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of the NBCUniversal Television Group division of NBCUniversal. The channel features news, information, and political opinion programming. Its name was derived from the most common abbreviations for Microsoft and the National Broadcasting Company. MSNBC and msnbc.com were founded in 1996 as partnerships of Microsoft and General Electric's NBC unit, which is now NBCUniversal. The online partnership of msnbc.com ended on July 16, 2012 and the site was rebranded as NBCNews.com

Well if Microsoft was/is involved what do you expect.

Microsoft and MSNBC ended their partnership back on July 16th, 2012. Source

MSNBC is an American basic cable and satellite news television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of the NBCUniversal Television Group division of NBCUniversal. The channel features news, information, and political opinion programming. Its name was derived from the most common abbreviations for Microsoft and the National Broadcasting Company. MSNBC and msnbc.com were founded in 1996 as partnerships of Microsoft and General Electric's NBC unit, which is now NBCUniversal. The online partnership of msnbc.com ended on July 16, 2012 and the site was rebranded as NBCNews.com

Well if Microsoft was/is involved what do you expect.

The general public know squiddly dat about anything, but when a responsible government tries to guide them, they get accused of being the nanny state.

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Statistics can prove or disprove anything if applied carefully.
It also comes down to, how much do we trust Government statistics in the first place.

Take this:

Benefit fraud: the public think that £24 of every £100 of benefits is fraudulently claimed. Official estimates are that just 70 pence in every £100 is fraudulent - so the public conception is out by a factor of 34.

Seems clear enough, but it doesn't mention how they define fraudulent, also, is fraudulently the same as wrongfully? Personally, i think there are many thousands of people wrongfully claiming benefits, however, those people are not necessarily fraudulently claiming said benefits. People who can work but are just lazy, so deliberately foul up in interviews so as to go on claiming 'jobseekers' (hah!) allowance. That's wrong, but not fraud.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Yes, can you say MSNBC?

Not sure how widely MSNBC is viewed by the British public (which was surveyed for this article).

Personally I suspect that Lord Rothermere is more likely to blame.

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I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ...

No, not wrong. It's an old tactic used by Britain during their empire building days: - Divide & Conquer.

Unfortunately, the rest of the world has cottoned onto that & using it themselves.

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Can you say Rupert Murdoch?

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On this board we have all seen people make claims that at best could be described a questionable. In their defense they may be just re-quoting politicians or things they have seen or heard. But a survey in the UK recently makes the claim that the general public is wrong about nearly everything. I'm beginning to think this might not be just a UK thing.

What's you thoughts on how you think your countries citizens might answer similar question.

British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows

Research shows public opinion often deviates from facts on key social issues including crime, benefit fraud and immigration