Voters often complain that politicians spout out simplistic bromides and empty solutions to real national problems. That may be true. But politicians, business leaders and anyone else who deals with the news media have every reason to be fearful of trying to convey complex ideas through the media. The reality is that it is to easy for complex ideas to be picked apart and then turned into objects of ridicule.
Case in point:
Bill Bennett, the former Reagan and Bush Cabinet official and current conservative talk radio host, got himself into trouble on Wednesday September 28, 2005 when he said this on his national show:
