re: #248 Killgore Trout

I keep thinking this craziness has to achieve critical mass. It’s obvious that right wing blogs and Fox are not reporting anything even close to reality. It’s too easy to check this out. People are going to eventually figure out they’re being duped.

The average Joe republican does not spend all day reading blogs and fact checking everything. Every single person on the right I know other than myself believes every single one of these nontroversies still, without fail. They heard it from Fox or from a friend and that was it for them. These are otherwise sane people who believe in Death Panels. They think the current Health Care bill is a 100% socialist single payer system. They think Obama is really a Muslim. They think Obama voted to murder abortion survivors. They think there might be something to that birth certificate thing, and they swear that Van Jones was a 9-11 Troofer as a confirmed matter of fact. They are also going along with the right embracing Alex Jones and Ron Paul because they never heard of them before and missed 8 years of them calling Bush a nazi.

So no, it wont reach critical mass and explode, it will just keep going until Fox starts retractions or corrections… in other words, never.