In its Saturday editorial pages the Minneapolis paper runs, with connecting commentary by staffer Tim O'Brien, a compilation of text bytes from the week in the political blogosphere. Today the Blog House, as it is called, noted that Political Animal named Power Line's John Hinderaker the winner of its Golden Wingnut Award for having written, in a 2005 post:
It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.
Meanwhile, over at Power Line today the Golden Wingnut winner has a post up called "In Another World." That other world, visible to the oracular Hinderaker from his perch at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas, is "a sort of bubble inhabited only by leftists." He proceeds to his view of polls, cited by liberal co-panelists at the Expo, indicating strong public disapproval of our course in Iraq:
I'm pretty sure the number of people who think the facts don't matter in Iraq is quite a bit less than 70%, and I'm also pretty sure that a political movement that explicitly declares its indifference to reality is in trouble.
Concerning these co-panelists, who are indifferent to the encouraging state of affairs in Iraq, he announces that their "disconnect from reality was complete" --a tiding of great joy, in his estimation, for future Wingnut Award competitors:
The effect of all this unreality was cheering. Disconnects this total can survive only inside an echo chamber, which appears to be what the left has going on. That's good, if you're a Republican.
You couldn't make this stuff up.
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