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Sarasota News Leader October 18, 2013 OPINION • 13 percent of Americans believe that President Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ. That means that 8 percent of Americans who believe our president is the spawn of Beelzebub also disapprove of Congress. • 6 percent believe that Osama bin Laden still is alive. Page 92 13 percent of Americans believe that President Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ. That means that 8% of Americans who believe our president is the spawn of Beelzebub also disapprove of Congress. • 14 percent believe that the introduction • 28 percent believe that there is a secret of crack cocaine into the inner cities of cabal of powerful leaders with a globalist America in the 1980s was carried out by the agenda, conspiring to establish authoriCIA. tarian world rule through a "New World • 11 percent believe the US government knew Order." of the planned attacks on 9/11 and allowed • 37 percent believe that climate change, also them to happen. known as global warming, is a hoax. • 15 percent believe that the government and/ or the media add secret mind-controlling • 14 percent believe that Bigfoot is real. signals to television broadcasts. • 5 percent believe that Paul McCartney died • 4 percent believe that reptilian humanoids in a car crash in 1966, so that the person from another planetary system have taken acting in his stead for the past 47 years is over the bodies of various world leadan imposter. ers, including George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth II, in order to gain control of the Since a reasonable person would consider these beliefs to be somewhat wacky, it would planet. appear that only the hard-core wacky— those • 20 percent believe there is a causal link believing that the president is the Anti-Christ, between childhood vaccines and autism. that Bigfoot is real, that aliens have taken over • 28 percent believe that Saddam Hussein the bodies of world leaders, that TV signals was behind the attacks on 9/11. are a mind-control mechanism, that the moon • 7 percent believe the moon landings were landings were faked, and Paul McCartney has been dead for nearly a half century — still a hoax. approve of the job Congress is doing. • 21 percent believe that a UFO crashed in Roswell, NM in 1947, and that the govern- I hope the folks on Capitol Hill will be guided ment covered up that fact. by this sobering realization. %