People like Davey-poo will never admit that they suck on the Fox News tit not because they want actual information, but because they want to listen only to what they want to hear. It would take a level of introspection I doubt they're capable of for them to say, "You know, I've been lapping up propaganda for several years now, and maybe I should stop."
I started out my adult life in sales. In a three-year career, I sold insurance, cars and mobile homes. For those that are curious, the most lucrative of the three was mobile home sales. All the sales training I had over the years emphasized it is a lot easier to sell somebody something if you focus on what they want to hear rather than what they need. Often, they will simply blab that they want this or that based upon a false belief. More often than not, if you correct that belief, you will lose a sure sale.
When I worked as a small-town attorney, I'll confess I wasn't very successful because I refused to tell people what they wanted to hear. Most things you encounter as a small-town attorney are cut and dried like child support, criminal offenses that are pled out and so on. The typical call I would get would be a Bubba saying the "lying cunt" that was leaving him wanted $800 a month in child support and that was outrageous.
You simply put both people's income into a computerized form and it spits out a number. So, the moral thing is to tell Bubba he should take that deal. If he goes before the judge, the support guidelines call for him to pay $1200 a month in support. However, if you tell Bubba that you don't get the case because Bubba will call somebody else that will tell him what he wants to hear.
Most attorneys would play this as, "Oh, my god, your ex is a real cunt! Let's put the screws to her. Don't you worry we will get into the courtroom and I think we can do much better than that? ...But understand I can't guarantee that result as it is up to the judge. "So, Bubba hires that guy and gets his day in court. He gets ordered to pay the $1200 a month in support. And for dragging out such a trivial matter with clear-cut rules the judge orders him to pay her attorney fees too.
Both of those experiences paled in comparison to the Internet Marketing business I did for 20+ years. You find out soon it is hard to make much by offering a quality product or service at a fair price. People want to believe a magic pill will melt away their fat like magic. People want to hear there is an amazing business opportunity where they can work 1 hour a week and make millions of dollars a year for simply pushing a button. Men want to hear that some magic herbal cream will make their willy several inches longer. Again, a tough business to do ethically, but I managed.
The bottom line is there is a tremendous amount of money to be made by telling people what they want to hear, and the one born every minute falls into the same trap over and over again no matter how many times they get burned. Pride and vanity extract a heavy toll on a lot of people.
