Maureen Dowd, in the New York Times, wrote that the oil spill in the Gulf was a disaster…for President Obama. The oil spill had no reality for her beyond its effect on the president and the Democratic party. Dead birds, dead fish, polluted wetlands, out of work fishermen, an economic disaster for the people living along the shore – none of that was reality for Maureen Dowd or for many others of the leftist chattering class. They are so wrapped into the cocktail party lives they lead they cannot comprehend that there are real people affected by real events. To the Maureen Dowd’s of this world there is no reality, only perception.
What is this thing reality?
The young man smiled and said
To me it’s what is like as not
To get me killed real dead
Ah no, said yet another man
What’s false and what is real
Is that which fits the narrative
Of how I ought to feel
You both are wrong, the woman said
For nothing’s really real
And truth is false and false is true
As narratives congeal
An older man, a passerby
Cried out then, quite aloud
Reality is opposite
What’s said by Maureen Dowd