Turning, Spinning, Catherine-Wheeling

Southern Beale over at First Draft notes the peculiar parameters that Mr. Romney must operate within and the nature of conservatism:

Isn't that just typical? Whenever reality contradicts conservative ideology, it's always the reality that's wrong, and the conservative solution is always to create their own version of whatever so-called "liberal" thing vexes them at the moment. It must be exhausting creating your own alternate reality: your own news network, your own Bible, your own science and history, and on, and on. Expensive, too. But there you have it.

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Anything deemed "liberal" by conservatives now has its right-wing counterpart, catering exclusively to right-wingers. The results have been predictable: a core group of intractable true believers increasingly cut off from the rest of the electorate.

Conservapedia doesn't get mentioned, but it was my first thought.

Also in the Slow Death of Newspapers, Maariv is in bad shape.