Hunter is consistently the best read at DailyKos. Bitter, sarcastic, and self-amused, his satire seems a perfect balance to the jaw-dropping outrages that are politics and media in the US today.
Today he comments on birtherism (the belief that President Obama was not born in the United States). Noting the prevalence of this belief dropped in April 2011, after Obama released his long-form birth certificate, but has now increased again, Hunter writes:
…releasing actual factual information about something only changes public knowledge about that thing for a short period of time, then folks go back to believing whatever the hell they want to believe.
Exactly. It would be harder, I think, to identify the set of conditions under which public knowledge could actually be changed by presentation of facts.
