Couch Potatoes Aren't Dupes

"War makes people stupid not tv." The writers were referring to the fact that during the Persian Gulf War, people were not as much protesting the war, but supporting it. The war or information reported about the war was always on tv. People were glued to the television sets to find out any new information. This was a war where the flow of information was controlled by the millitary. The military is not a democratic institution. So the average citizen who watched the news for updates on the war received what the military wanted them to see and not much else.