If the facts don't fit, print the legend

The line from John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance came to mind watching this amazing clip, courtesy of Talking Points Memo:



As Josh Marshall notes, these three are so committed to the narrative they and others in the media have constructed about John McCain that they are willing to discount his explicit statement that he is proud of the Paris-Britney ad that they somehow believe he'd be appalled by. So much for the MSM being the "reality-based community."