Wikipedia says that illusory correlation is the phenomenon of seeing the relationship one expects even when no such relationship exists. Brian Ross of ABC News, on receiving word that the police had identified the Batman movie shooter as a James Holmes, of Aurora, Colorado, went immediately to the Tea Party website to see if the name James Holmes appeared. It did, though if Ross had checked a bit further he would have discovered it was a different James Holmes. But of course he did not check further, and Ross breathlessly told his few listeners that the mass murderer was a member of the Tea Party, just as he and every right thinking American suspected. Of course he really meant every left thinking American, since the Left seems to believe in the correlation between the Tea Party movement and mass murder. Or at least they are prepared to spare no expense or effort in trying to convince the unwashed that there is a connection. Just as they instantly claimed, also falsely, that the shooter of Congresswoman Gabby Gifford belonged to the Tea Party.
Illusory correlation
Quite depends upon your station
For the people whom you know define your acts
If you are a Left Progressive
Then you are at times obsessive
Blaming murder on the Right despite the facts
But such claims fit the agenda
And if not then they’ll amend a
Statement made to then reflect the current theme
That the ones who do the killing
Are Tea Partiers who’re willing
To kill all who disagree and that’s their meme
And the Left, who like Rapunzels
Leave their hair down for their gunsels
And who murdered hundred millions to this date
Yes the Maos, the Stalins, Pol Pots
Who killed people by the job lots
Are beatified because ‘twas for the State
And the crazy Muslim killer
Has become the very pillar
Of the way of life the Left will force on us
He responds to Allah’s dictates
As he kills his eyelid nictates
And if militarys die then that’s a plus
Correlations thus are easy
And if some just make you queasy
Just remember that it’s for the common good
For the Left knows what’s good for you
And they’ll tell you till they bore you
That they’re pure at heart but just misunderstood