Honestly, do they think we're stupid?

The other day I was listening to to only progressive radio station available here in Western Washington, AM 1090 (such a godsend in a world dominated by the mass media blowhards who only seek to cater to fear and costernation). One of my favorite talk show hosts, Mike Maloy, mentioned a recent USA Today/Gallup poll which they published in their pseudo-newspaper. The poll question was: "Who is most responsible for the AIG bonuses being paid?" The possible answers were: a) President Obama; b) Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; c) Congress; or d) AIG executives. I completely forgot what the results of the poll were, because I was so incensed that USA Today omitted former President Bush and his cohorts as an option, and therefore from any judgment of responsibility. The media must think we're a conglomeration of brain-dead consumer vegetables, because it was President Bush and his partners in crime (including the inept Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke) who pushed the blasted $700+ billion bill through to these companies such as AIG without any stipulations or oversight for its use. Bush used his one final opportunity to drive the country further into the cesspool of destruction he has cultivated, and the idiots at USA Today, CNN, Fox News, etc. continue to look the other way, thus removing W from the eyes of the public and their critical judgment. I will allow that a large majority of the American public must make some effort to seek their own perspective and make their own judgments instead of simply lapping up whatever the major news networks and publications feed them. But when the majority of the material present in the media today consistently leaves out vital components, components of truth, then how can people be expected to question it if they are being bombarded with messages that distort what actually happened?