:: 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?
Oh, I get it, totally.
The mentality is: if I immediately suspect you, even if I'm wrong, it's your fault because you're so obviously evil that you made me suspect you; i.e., it's the type of thing I know you would have done, despite there being no evidence at all that you've ever done anything like that. Because, you know, hate. And stuff.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” Pres. Ronald Reagan