I was in the barber shop yesterday and overheard a conversation from a man who had just visited Adrian’s TLC Community Credit Union.  The woman in line next to him had spent a sleepless night after learning that Georgia had been invaded by Russia.  The woman had seriously thought that the United States had just been invaded by Russia.

Later that night, I watched the NBC Nightly News and Brian Williams clearly annunciated that “the nation of Georgia” had been invaded.  Clearly, the network had been made aware that some viewers had thought that the State of Georgia was under attack.

I don’t seriously believe that a large percentage of Americans believed that we were under attack.  But I feel pretty sure that 5 or 10 percent of Americans probably thought that the Russians had finally invaded.

It gives me pause.

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