Hart Nat Hentoff David Horowitz Arianna Huffington Marianne Jennings Michael Kelly Mort Kondracke Ch. The passersby thought they were sitcom characters.
Nobody needs to keep up with journalists.
But when Jay Leno takes to the streets of Los Angeles for pop interviews testing the facts of history, he gets the same results and that's no laughing matter. He asked bystanders who was the president of the United States during World War II and one of them replied Abraham Lincoln. Another thought it was Jimmy Carter. It got worse when they were asked about current events. But it's even simpler than that.