"They're know-nothing populists..."

Then it's about time that those who have a public voice... as do the news pundits that I mentioned above... see to it that they at least HEAR information that makes it harder to "know-nothing"!
If slanted misinformation is not shown for what it is, by voices that are supposed to HAVE reasonable information, we are pissing into the wind!

Stupidity cannot just be obliquely hinted at... it needs to be exposed. (That does NOT mean we all have to agree with ME... or with each other... it just means that fallacious reasoning and demonstrably false information must be identified and combated constantly.)

One example...Texas buys a HUGE amount of school textbooks, and every conservative idea from anti-evolution on up...or down... gets stuck into textbooks that OTHER states get fed by default. School teachers need a way to teach how to THINK... not 'what to believe'.

(I..ummm.. 'sometimes' see IRONY as a useful technique.)