The Memory Hole

There are a lot of things about the "Big-C" Conservatives in this country that drive me to sputtering incoherencies.  Inspiring fear in the populace is one.  Pushing economic policies that favor the corporate entity as opposed to the individual or the state, is another.  The desire to legislate your social life, sex life, and entertainment options while screaming about how big government is bad, is certainly a juicy one.  But the number one thing that sends me into fits of despair and loathing for mankind is the memory hole.  The memory hole is where these deluded individuals toss any historical event or their own previous posturing that is inconvenient to their current narrative.  Karl "Deficits don't matter!" Rove is suddenly a very serious fiscal conservative, despite the fact that he helped engineer the largest increase in government spending in 40 years.  The Bush administration increased discretionary spending each and every year, without even beginning to count the billions spent on the two wars they engaged us in, while at the same time implementing massive tax cuts.  That's inconvenient, however, to his story about how the current administration has doomed us all with Health Care Reform and the bank bailouts, which, by the way, were also initiated by Bush.  Weird, right?  Rudy "9/11" Giuliani can get on Good Morning America and tell the world that we never suffered a domestic terrorist attack during Bush's presidency.  Which is totally true if you put 9/11, The Senate Anthrax attack, The Shoe Bomber, and the shootings at LAX down the memory hole.  And no, no one at Good Morning America had the cajones or brains (I can only assume they are lacking in both) to ask America's Mayor just what the hell he was talking about.  John "Our Other President" McCain, who seems to get more airtime than the actual president, can complain endlessly about cuts to Medicare even though he campaigned for cuts to Medicare and Medicaid while running for President.  

All of which wouldn't be so bothersome if the only people calling them out on this selective memory weren't bloggers and individuals whose voices are relatively small.  I'm sure folks like Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow call them out on these things, but the only people watching those two are the people who didn't need it pointed out to them.  Kind of like how the only people who watch Glenn Beck already know that Obama's a Kenyan-Islamofascist out to Destroy America.  Not even the Democrats seem to be able to get up the nerve to say, "Hey, wait a minute, I seem to remember..."

Now, if this were a real website with real readers, one of them would undoubtedly do some Googling and come up with instances of "Lieberals" flip flopping on their own records or misremembering specificities.  There's no question that this is a practice of politicians of all bents.  But this, like so many things, is an issue of degree.  Can anyone find such an egregious example of this memory hole phenomenon occurring on the left outside of perhaps Michael Moore--who I will remind is not a sitting Senator, former Presidential candidate, former mayor, or member of a White House administration?  To that, I say good luck.