Stupid Reality.

Ace proposes a little.... problem.

Suppose I want to say "Jared Loughner was inspired by a steady diet of Rush Limbaugh, episodes of Sarah Palin's Alaska, and Tea Party rallies."

What is the defect in that? Well, if you're a leftist, it's perfect in every single way: It connects a shooting to your political enemies and gives you an advantage you can't get via your policies. But the one problem with it -- which isn't a problem so much as an obstacle -- is that it's simply not true.

But it's so wonderful! It should be true; the fact that is not is more of a defect of reality than a defect of this wonderful sentence you've written in your head. Your ideology is perfect in its precision; it's reality that's messy, disordered, and off-message.

What to do? Well there's a simple solution really. Imply and wring your hands over the subject.

And it's not like this is the first time the "Reality Based" community tried to blame Conservatives for everything bad.

Of course some of the people preaching new civility aren't quite so... civil themselves.


But hey there's a narrative to write here.

Sherman: Well it’s clear from his web postings that he had picked up some of the extreme right positions, such as that our currency is not real currency, etc. You do hear that in the blogosphere on the extreme right. But again, my point is, if you have a heart attack, you stop smoking whether or not you can absolutely prove that the nicotine that you’ve taken in caused that particular heart attack because you know that breathing in toxic fumes is going to be harmful to our political system.

It’s also clear that Loughner admired the Communist Manifesto, was a pothead, thought 9-11 was an inside job and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are war crimes and thought NASA was one big hoax. A few of those positions are found not in the extreme left blogosphere but among the left’s leading lights. Didn’t President Obama have a Communist Truther among his constellation of czars? Why didn’t Rep. Sherman bring any of that up? Because it would have disrupted the narrative that he and his ilk are attempting to build.

And this rampage is just what some dems thought Obama needed.

And remember, hate and vitrol only come from the Right. Leftists protests never dared to threaten the President or use Nazi imagery against him.

Back to Ace.

Let me again point out that the media is very, very concerned if the "right wing" has "misinformation" about ObamaCare -- like the "misinformation" it will increase spending -- and works overtime to correct these misunderstandings by stupid conservatives.

And boy do they. And then they make fun of us for being so stupid as to think a trillion dollars in new government spending will actually increase government spending.

But notice what happens when the left if possessed of a belief that isn't true. Do they look right into the camera and say, "Look, I know what you're thinking, but the evidence does not support that?"

No. They pander to it. Without saying it's true they imply it's true; they assume it's true; they devote articles and "news segments" to suggesting it's true.

Can't say it's true, because it's not; but the leftist audience believes it's true, and whatever you do, you must not contradict them. You must reinforce their beliefs, even if you know they're factually simply wrong.

And these are the same people who think you're unfit to run your life, but they're fit to do it for you.

Really, they just want you to shut up and know your place.