My tweets

[scarfman]

• Sat, 12:11: RT @MMFlint: NRA's disgusting ad is also a lie: It turns out, the school attended by the President's daughters has ZERO armed guards http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-nra-and-breitbart-unprecedented.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
• Sat, 19:55: #AKOTAS update: how's that uniform boot taste, Gawaine? http://t.co/lHwKuqb0 #webcomics #kingarthur
• Sat, 20:40: drew two AKOTAS and a Year 50 today
• Sat, 22:57: Hero of Three Faces update: alien concept. http://t.co/fYtE7qyt #startrek #doctorwho
• Sat, 23:44: Put on Comedy Central just for background noise. The last few minutes of Wedding Crashers, then Joe Dirt. Say, it's a Walken double feature.
• Sun, 09:16: Fanfiction has come to mean any derivative work. We need a new word for unlicensed derivative work, because the distinction is important.

Comments

[pgranzeau.livejournal.com]

Maybe the Prez's kids' school don't have armed guards, but his kids have personal armed bodyguards, I bet.

[scarfman]

Oh, no one's denying that. But, according to the article linked in the tweet I retweeted, the original A.W.R. Hawkins blogpost at Breitbart which the NRA tv ad took as a source states emphatically and specifically that the school where the Obama girls attend does have armed guards above and beyond the Secret Service protection for presidential families; the Hawkins blogpost is quoted in the article. That is incorrect. In fact it has none. It's a Quaker school; it never has had armed guards, doesn't at the present time, and is not likely ever to in the future.

The actual topic of the article at the link is the current conservative/Republican "epistemic closure", which is a fancy term for "assuming the people on your side never get their facts wrong, or if they do it doesn't matter, so one way or the other you don't have to look for yourself".