Nick Anderson, political cartoonist at The Houston Chronicle, has crafted a fantastic cartoon that succinctly and accurately sums up not just the conservative media bubble's disconnect from reality, but why that disconnect will continue to create self-inflicted wounds.
Here is "Five stages of grief" (with permission):
While this denial epidemic was on full comedic display Tuesday night
in the form of a classic Karl Rove meltdown, don't expect the epidemic to be cured any time soon.
The symptoms will persist. Symptoms which are on Fox's homepage at this moment:
Yes, the liberal media bias is to blame for Romney's loss. It has nothing to do with "binders full of women" or "self-deportation" or "forty-seven percent of Americans."
It's the liberal media. A charge that sounds vaguely familiar.
Yes, the epidemic still persists.
Author's Note:
For more of Anderson's work, visit his blog at The Houston Chronicle.
And because I can't resist, here's Anderson's "The deficit":