Santayana Strikes Again

Driftglass (the Mike Royko Memorial Emeritus Chair of the Department of Journalism at Unseen University) on vast conspiracies:

Which is why, even though artifacts like the Mann & Ornstein critique remain virtually unknown or unacknowledged or simply denied by the wider world, we on the Left pass them around like Zappa bootlegs. We are the ones who refuse to forget what was actually said and done during the Age of Clinton. Who refused to forget Valerie Plame. Who refuse to forget a report named Jeff Gannon, who was not a reporter and was not named Jeff Gannon. Who refuse to forget Lee Atwater. Who refuse to forget how we were mocked and derided for suggesting that criminal wars and reckless tax cuts would lead to crippling deficits. We refuse to forget these historical facts and hundreds of other because, even though it isn't much, like the Irish monks who painstakingly copied and maintained the documentary record of Western Civilization during its dark age, we will not let the truth gutter out and die without a fight.  [Links in original.]

Lest we forget. As it were.  Also, fundraising time over there.