Maybe I'm gonna have to rethink my general skepticism regarding Habermas's vision of the rationality-inducing "sluices" of the channels of public opinion production. After all the bullshit and manipulative rhetoric of the last three years

only 3% of US citizens believe that Bush was thinking about bringing freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people when deciding to invade.

Hell, nearly 10x that believe that the moon landings were faked.