Read this today from the AVClub, they had an interview with Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi -

AVC: The other night, Larry King was talking about the election with Joy Behar from The View—

MT: [Laughs.] There’s two intellectual giants debating politics.

AVC: Behar was talking about some US Magazine cover where they explore Michelle Obama’s relationship with her husband. It’s even called something like “Why Barack Loves Her.” And Behar was saying, “Well, not everyone reads The New York Times or watches the news, so this might be the only way they get to know about the Obamas.” Are we that hopeless?

MT: Oh, man. That’s terrifying. I’m out there on the campaign trail all the time talking to people who are going to vote in this election. I was talking to this woman in Louisiana last week, and she’s standing at a McCain rally, she’s actually there supporting the candidate in person, and I say, “What is it about Barack Obama that you don’t like?” She turns to her friend and says, “What was that thing about his wife? That anti-American thing?” The other one says, “I don’t know. Which thing do you mean?” And she’s like, “That thing, where she’s anti-American.” And the other one is like, “Oh, I don’t know. I don’t know what you mean.” And so she says to me, “Well, I heard this thing about her being anti-American.” That was as specific as she could be about why she didn’t like Barack Obama, because she heard a thing somewhere about his wife. People are voting on the basis of shit like that. [Laughs.] How we’re not back in the Stone Age already with this situation, the way it’s going, is beyond me.