Vaidency
This is what happens when you deify someone. They no longer remember Ronald Reagan as a pragmatic politician, but instead as the mythical embodiment of their current ideology.

They do the same damned thing with the national founders, which is how we end up having such a schizophrenic relationship with our own history.

Xenocide
That last sentence was almost a haiku.

Xenocide
Now let's count the miliseconds until the charges of LIBRUL MEDIA BIAS start cropping up.

Kudos to 60 minutes for actually having the balls to say someone is provably wrong. Why does that never happen anymore?

The Mothership
GOTCHA JOURNALISM.

Senator_Unger
Now, thanks to conservative media, if you call Republicans on their bullshit, they will just deny you access to their candidates and spout their crap through their own media where nobody will correct them when they say stupid things. Remember when Obama refused to give interviews to Fox News for a few months and they freaked out? They hated that Democrats had figured out how to play their game. Of course, Obama caved (surprise!) and let O'Reilly belittle him before the Super Bowl.

cognitivedissonance
Not only that, but he's volunteered to be their leader so if you disagree with him you're guilty of Anti-Semitism. Seriously, that was the plan.

Robin Kestrel
That's really not fair confronting him with facts like that, because he has to be rescued by off-camera shouting man explaining how reality is a lie and NOW who looks like the crazy one, huh?

Vaidency
Yep. Debating isn't about being right; it's about being socially dominant. If you're beating someone in a debate, their instinct isn't to change their mind and accept your views, it's to debate their own side HARDER.

The Mothership
in common parlance this is now called 'doubling down'.