KOS’ post yesterday echoes the same kind of frustration with the dogged stuboorn blindness of the far right when it comes to facing reality, or looking at facts. The Fox News Channel has become something like the Scriptures to their delusional faith in the neocon dream, presenting it to them in living, arrogant, wing-nut color by icons such as Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. O’Reilly speaks for them, and he serves as surrogate to their rage against the liberals, voicing their collective “Shut UP!” to their enemies. And he supplies loads of misinformation, and feeds the paranoia about the “liberal media conspiracy” (which only serves to obscure how their campaign is only “against conspiracies by media” and not the authors of their own.)

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In the feverish minds of the war apologists, it doesn’t matter that no WMDs were found, that torture chambers are still open for business, that this war is now rivaling Saddam’s brutality for sheer number of Iraqis killed, that the Army, Marines, and National Guard are all having trouble recruiting, that our equipment is degrading to the point where we’re creating a hollow military, that the war is costing us $200 billion and counting, that Israel is not safer as a result of this war, that nearly 1,600 allied troops and counting have died on this fool’s errand, that the US’s original choice to lead Iraq — Chalabi — was an Iranian spy who told our enemies that we had cracked their communications code, that most of Iraq is not under government control, that terrorists are now using the lawlessness in Iraq to recruit and train a whole new generation of terrorists, that our “Coalition of the Willing” is now a mere shell of its former self, that the world hates the United States, that the Euro is suddenly the hot currency, that Europe and Asia are both creating security organizations excluding the US, and that tens of thousands of our soldiers are coming home physically and mentally maimed.

None of that matters to them.