Bushies: "Don't Confuse Me With The Facts".

[democraticinsurgent]

Don't you wonder sometimes how Bush can keep 40+% of the electorate in his camp despite the massive failures of his administration? A close relative of mine, who shall remain nameless, has provided me at least part of the answer.

Back in the waning days of Nixon's Watergate scandal, an Indiana Congressman named Earl Landgrebe became momentarily famous for his comment in regard to Nixon's unraveling: "Don't confuse me with the facts".

We all got a good laugh over that one.

I'm not laughing so much these days, though.

Not too long ago I tried to warn my relative about Bush and company. About their misconduct. About their lies. About their likely role in 9/11. About what they might do if they're returned to office. There seemed to be some interest.

So I printed out a small stack of relatively tame stories from various internet sites and left them to be read.

But that didn't happen, and I couldn't understand why. We argued for awhile, and it got far uglier than I intended. The relative started talking about all the people the Clintons have supposedly killed, while I kept pointing to Bush's Nazi heritage and the insanity of the Iraq war. At that point we stopped talking about it, knowing that the road ahead would place our relationship in peril.

But I still wondered why they wouldn't at least look at the articles I'd printed out.

This morning the conversation started down the political road again, and I finally got my answer: "I'm not reading anything that came from the internet," they said.

Since this relative had also already ruled out anything from Time (they lie) and Garrison Keillor's quite lucid commentary on why he's working for Kerry (he's mean-spirited), the conclusion became obvious.

They're not going to read anything that doesn't agree with what they already think.

And what they think is the crap-based trash that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and his ilk have been spoon-feeding angry white people for the last decade.

So that's the deal. Shrub's people do not want to be confused with the facts.

Wow.

[Sandpiper]

1. Well, like their idol Ronald Reagan said

"Facts are stupid things."

Especially when misinformation is your goal.

[leftofthedial]

2. yup

willfully, aggressively ignorant