Politico: House Oversight Committee & Fast and Furious whistleblower demand 'Fortune' retract story

[DanTex]

15. IOW, she was "discredited" by Republicans and gun bloggers.

When the Fortune report came out, I don't recall any non-right-wingers reacting with the kind outrage and disbelief that you saw among the gun fanatics. So apparently, to you, "those who care about reality" means right-wing crazies. Not too surprising.

Anyway, look, we get it. Gun nuts hate Eric Holder. They really wish they could pin a big conspiracy theory on him. That is why, whenever there is any ambiguity or contradictory testimony, you resolve it in the way that is most favorable to the Darrell Issa witch hunt. But, as the Fortune article (and the IG) pointed out, the facts of the case, and the totality of the evidence is not on your side. And by now pretty much everyone except for the lunatic fringe has accepted this and moved on. I mean, just the fact that the gun nuts have retreated from "Eric Holder intentionally armed the Mexican drug cartels" to "Fortune should issue a correction" shows how far we've come.

As I pointed out last time we discussed this, your clinging to conspiracy theories has much more to do with your inability to reason in the presence of uncertainty -- a trait that is very common among people with right-wing political views -- than with any facts. Your reasoning is not actually fact-based, it is based on a bunch of tenuous leaps of logic. You see conspiracies in places where a rational person without a political agenda would simply see uncertainty.