How Real is Real? Faith Based Reality: Part Deux

Ignore Rush's sputtering obnoxiousness, if you can, for a moment. Here's what he said about actually said Cindy Sheehan: "I mean, Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett [He's the guy who gave CBS documents "proving" Bush was a no-show in the National Guard]. Her story is nothing more than forged documents. There's nothing about it that's real, including the mainstream media's glomming onto it. It's not real. It's nothing more than an attempt. It's the latest effort made by the coordinated left." (See http://mediamatters.org/items/200508160009 for more on the issue.)

How real is real? The MSM has picked up the Cindy Sheehan story. It's true about the MSM, but for Rush at least, it's not real. Reminds me of that self-help phrase: "my reality." The context: "That's not how it was in my reality." It sounds like reality were not... well, not real. Sounds like the post-modern relativism the Right always tars academia with: there is no objective reality--no absolute right and wrong. The facts are clear. Cindy Sheehan lost a son in Iraq. Rather than dispute the facts, Rush gives reality the boot.

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