Manjoo describes our particular moment in history by saying that our society is biased and blind to truth depending on our political standing. The events that were described in chapter one were made possible because people were willing to believe Kerry’s misrepresentation of his service during Vietnam. The people that were wiling to over look the evidence that proved Kerry’s account of Vietnam was false were the majority of democrats. But the majority of the republicans were skeptical of his account from the beginning. Manjoo describes this bias as an addiction to ones preferred spin of the truth.
