All men are created equal doesn't refer to this. The difference in age, height, weight, hair color and attitude has nothing to do with the quote.
It's really about the fact that every man can make any choice he wants and he is free to try to accomplish anything he can think of.
Misinterpretation is the basis of religion. And after you institute a certain belief system into a person's head you can make every other opinion look bad just because it contradicts the higher authority figure that you created.
This is what manipulation is really about. We shouldn't care about what the media does, because ultimately it can alter none of our decisions, so it is irrelevant.
Any group that has hairy ideas is worthy of our ignorance and nothing else because they are trying to fight their best ally, the world.
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