She says it...as it is:

[Hessian]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49233

Notice that the academics, the media moghuls, the leadership seems to be in a haze when it comes to these brazen attacks on US soldiers & economics & culture & citizens.

This haze is the result of cowardice, lack of identity, lack of patriotism, and a desire to embrace the Liberal mantra: "Why can't we all just get along?"
Thus...too many people have become "stupid"...by choice, not genes.

 

[wmburdette]

As Ben Stein points out in the siggy below, political correctness, which I think is the 'stupidity' Barbara Simpson refers to, is going to kill all of us. But a far too large number of Americans don't give a damn! Concern for those things just might cut into the amount of time available to waste on the putrid drivel on the television.

 

[Llwynog]

The news is to often a part of the putrid drivel problem.