Yes, this is a typical prog fallback position: "I was completely and utterly wrong to suspect the opposition, but the mere fact that my first instinct was to suspect them is an indictment* of them, not me."
* In the rhetorical sense, not the 24-business-hour sense
:: the fact that it had all the earmarks of one. . . The fact that it was not does not change that fact. ::
Obviously not a rhetoric student or math major.
Seriously, read that again, critically.
This DUmmie is saying that “the facts of reality” should never be substituted for real facts.
ummm...huh?