Can't handle the truth? Change it.

The other day, Michele Bachmann mistakenly said John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, was a Founding Father. In fact, young master Adams was a 9-year-old boy when the Framers signed the Declaration of Independence. So he was really only a Founding Kid. Anyway, moments after Bachmann dug this latest hole for herself, history-challenged groupies rushed to edit JQA's Wikipedia page, adding "founding father" after his name. Because everything on Wikipedia is the Word of God, right? Needless to say, the gambit didn't work. Palin worshipers tried a similar edit job when the half-term governor rewrote Paul Revere's Ride. Who are these pathetic people? With apologies to Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, their motto seems to be, "We can't handle the truth! So we're gonna change it, dammit!" Has it really come to this?