I don't know about "pretty smart". They couldn't even agree on a single coherent sequence of events for the same story, not to mention being ignorant of what would have been recent or even current history. Even Fox News is more reliable.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'