Never mind the ponies--but how can you be unable to make sense of that phrase if you follow political events in the U.S.? You do read news from multiple sources, I trust?
If it's FOX News, then FEY is at a very distinct disadvantage. We had a topic here that dealt with a poll in which respondents were rated according to their knowledge of current events and they were also asked for their source for news. As I recall, the group that was the most ignorant about current events was the group whose source was FOX News. And, as I recall, that group rated even lower than those who pay absolutely no attention to the news at all.
OTOH, as I recall, the best informed group got their news from NPR, which is indeed exemplary. I remember when I served in North Dakota in the late 1970's where I could rarely get any national news (an occasional article on the front and second page, maybe, if you were lucky), and yet NPR was reporting on the Soviet war in Afghanistan years before our own national news even started to pick it up -- granted, at the time their international news did come from the BBC.
Of course, it could be that the smaller set of conservative ideologues were instead misled by their own media--you might have noticed some of the effects of that on election night at Fox.
'Nuff said. The Republican Party has been detached from reality for far too long. They need to reengage with reality.
Or as W. Edwards Deming said:
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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