Andrew Catches On

Now Sully notices that the president isn't just speaking contrary to the facts, but about an entire parallel universe, a separate modality, if you will. Not to be too triumphalist, but this is my fucking meme, bitches.

There's less of a mystery than Andrew thinks: the Bushies are Lewisian modal realists, and the Iraq they've been talking about at least since the Abu Ghraib and torture memo scandals belongs to a different possible world than the one we inhabit. Misleading? Sure. Technically untrue? Nope.