Dennis D. sends along a comment he plucked from the Ulstermann site that is at once almost laughable paranoid and yet oddly plausible, surreal and terrifying simultaneously, bespeaking an Administration so committed to political theater — and so downright cynical and demanding of narrative control — that the story itself begins to make sense of some of the behavior of the WH and State (and some silence as to the

Reality is but a construct.  A human fiction built from an arbitrary code.  He who controls the language controls perception. And he who controls perception gets to construct reality out of the language of his choosing. Or so the poststructuralists and anti-foundationists would have it.  If we let them.  Which we increasingly do. To borrow from Joshua,  “strange game, professor Fish.  The only winning move is not to play.”  

Frank Rich on the tea party.  I know: it’s kind of like reading Michelle Obama on the subject of the founding fathers, but go with it. For the laughs. Because — and here’s the irony, as RI Red noted when he sent along the link — Rich is essentially correct in his conclusions, though he gets to them in the ways of self-delusion so crucial to any leftwing ideologue’s ability

Marc Thiessen, “The new Middle East coverup: Biden caught in Syria debate falsehood”: First there was the Libya coverup. Now, we have the Syria coverup. In last week’s vice presidential debate, Joe Biden asserted that the United States was working to isolate al-Qaeda in Syria by ensuring that aid was directed to moderate elements of the Syrian opposition. “We are working hand and glove with the Turks, with the Jordanians,

I realize this Robert Samuelson article is more than several days old now, but it is clear that Obama-Biden are going to keep repeating the big lie of a $5 trillion Romney “tax cut for the rich” — in fact, other than grabbing onto the tail feathers of Big Bird, claiming that Romney’s denial of their convenient fiction is itself a lie seems to be the crux of their campaign