Today's Amanda Marcotte, Er, Andrew Sullivan Sentence...

You know what? If you can write a sentence that can pass for one from The Master, it's time to grab yourself a lobster bib and a sippy cup, 'cause you've lost it... big time:

And again, this is where the post-modern left and the Rovian left overlap: it's about creating reality out of ideology.

And what's funny (or frightening, depending on your point of view) is that he follows it up with this:

And again, this is where the post-modern left and the Rovian left overlap: it's about creating reality out of ideology. Because there is no reality that isn't created.

But there is. And the insistence on reality, on assessing problems empirically, and in proposing solutions is what we all need to get better at. In this, Obama really is leading. But the MSM chases its own tail - or, in the words of that ultimate post-modernist, Roger Ailes, it's only about ratings. There is no reality but ratings.

You simply can't make this sort of stuff up.

The real question in all this is obvious: Has Andrew gotten into the Arkansas Polio Weed again? If so, all I can say is I don't approve of it, I won't condone it, and I want some. 

Comments

[Mike C.]

Obviously didn't graduate with a degree in anything requiring mathematics, did he ? He needs to walk a mile (mince a mile ?) in my shoes to understand just rapidly reality can smack you upside the head.

[Mike C.]

Er, make that "HOW rapidly."

That's what happens when you're trying to write something and cook at the same time.

[andrew]

Wow, you definitely have to be high to write something like that.

[Allen]

"...assessing problems empirically, and in proposing solutions..."

I would add, "and completely ignore whether the American people even desire that solution."

[Wm T Sherman]

The Rovian left? What?

[Jim Ryan]

You don't get it. His readers are all baked.

[dndrko]

He says "the insistence on reality" like it is a bad thing. This crap is making my head hurt.

[Randy Rager]

I was going to fill this space with a metaphor containing Excitable Andy, runners at the Special Olympics and the act of tripping same, but I reconsidered.

After all, Special Olympians might take offense at being compared to the little dimwit, and we can't have that.

[kimberly]

"Ailes is the ultimate post-modernist", said by the There is no reality but Sarah Palin's womb editorialist (who calls Obama a conservative.)

Gotta love that reality-based (dope) party.

[Jim Ryan]

Let me guess. A bong. A buddy. A lot of giggling and saying, "Woah!" This is what you would have overheard had you witnessed the Trig Truth theory at the moment of its conception.

[richard mcenroe]

Wow. I've heard people joke about drunk-blogging,but jaysus...

[Eric Blair]

The guy is definitely on his meds. And I mean ON.

[Mike Myers]

YOu read this sort of stuff and can only say WTF?
WTF was he thinking of?