At the utter stupidity of some on the Right. Glenn exposes some of it in this piece on their fantasies about the pre-election polls:

Hugh Hewitt shows how Bush followers literally deny reality

(updated below)

In the three weeks prior to the election, Hugh Hewitt was repeatedly insisting that Republican candidates were tied or ahead even when the consensus of polls showed those candidates were actually behind, sometimes by substantial margins. He wasn't just predicting that the GOP candidate behind in the polls would win (there's nothing wrong with being hopeful). He was doing something completely different -- he was insisting that the GOP candidates who were behind in the polls were, in fact, ahead in the polls.

In response to e-mails he received, he condescendingly explained his "thinking" behind this outright distortion of reality:

I get a lot of e-mail asking me why I point to polls like the one favoring Steele when I discount some polls favoring some Democrats.

Because this question comes mostly from lefties, I will pause to explain in as uncomplicated a fashion as possible.

Polling methodology and models favors Democrats.

So polls that show Republicans tied or ahead I see as indicating a race in which the Republican is in the lead.

Polls that show a Republican within striking distance I see as a poll indicating a dead heat.

It shouldn't be that hard to grasp, even for a lefty.

So, like everything else in the world -- from war zone reports to intelligence assessments and everything in between -- polling data can be ignored and disregarded at will (when it's unpleasant) because it is oh-so-unfairly biased against the Republicans. Hewitt took the data that he didn't like, literally changed it in his own mind to make it more pleasant, and then embraced the fictitious data as his reality. And he expressly acknowledged doing so by insisting that data is biased.

Note the arrogance in response to Glenn's email.

And you wonder why I am having so much fun bitch slapping that stupid six year grin off their faces?

Read the whole thing, Glenn does a much better job of bitch slapping than I ever could. He pretty much lays open a massive cut and exposes some serious nerve tissue.. Me, I just call it as I see it. And write now, what I see are a bunch of people who have been hit over the head with the baseball bat of reality, and a lot of them are not taking it too well. You see I am a visceral guy. I state my opinion on this blog, and I don't have the time nor the inclination to "research," my opinion. Sometimes I end up being wrong, at others, it is hard to defend my arguments against Wingnuts who want to selectively "google me to death." But honestly, I don't really give a rats ass.

Hat Tip to The Commissar

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