You need simple proof that the facts don’t matter? Doesn’t get much more simple than this.
Dick Cheney, on the floor of the Senate tells the cheerfully collegial Pat Leahy “Go fuck yourself.” Here’s how Cheney described this incident yesterday:
“You’d be surprised how many people liked that. That’s sort of the best thing I ever did.”
Bill Kristol says:
“[telling Leahy to go fuck himself is] a beautiful statement, really, of justice. […] Dick Cheney is going out [and] defending justice in the end.”
Joe Biden, on the other hand, says “This is a big fucking deal” with glee, not with malevolence or personal animus, in regard to the signing-into-law of health care reform.
Bill Kristol says:
“This is one of the most despicable moments in American politics in our lifetimes.”
Repeat after me: The FACTS DO NOT MATTER.
Lemkin 