Letters to the Editor
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And yet they'll get away with it
There is something pathological about the monochromatic world movement conservatives seem to need. Jon Stewart's line about how the the Republican mind is composed, not of gray matter, but black and white matter, is too true to be funny. And so I think we can now expect Bush's numbers to fall even further as the past is re-written. In six months it will be hard to find anyone who ever voted for him.
But this transparently absurd revision will likely succeed, for the reasons you have been hammering on for some time -- the sycophancy of the beltway media. it does not matter that "we have always been at war with Eurasia" claims are as easily debunked as you have shown. And unlike in Orwell's dystopia, erasing history will not be necessary. The newspapers of record will dutifully transcribe. The pundit class will not acknowledge the sleight. So-called liberals like Richard Cohen will provide them cover, as Jonah Goldberg gratefully notes. And fact-checking will remain as foreign as Fellini.