POLLS ARE REALITY

In Wingnut World, poll results are not only a measure of what people are thinking, they also measure physical reality. So, if a majority of people think evolution is wrong, then evolution is wrong. I've come across this attitude on a few POLITICO threads and I've found is puzzling but I guess that's the way wingnuts think.

Steve Benen catches former WH Press Secretary Dana Perino making the same logical mistake:

She noted, for example, that White House officials "try to claim that the stimulus bill worked and I just look at all the polling data and no one believes it." In other words, it doesn't matter what's true -- it matters whether people can be misled into believing things that aren't true. (That is, of course, why Fox News exists.)