The latest example of conservative postmodernism comes from a Noah Schachtman’s Wired story on Andrew Breitbart (founder of the websites Big Journalism, Big Government, and Big Hollywood), which discusses Big Government blogger Michael Walsh’s utter indifference to the truth:

The stories don’t even have to be true to be useful. In December, Big Government’s Michael Walsh put together a list of the top stories the mainstream media missed in 2009. Number four: Sarah Palin’s claim that the health care bill included a “death panel” that would decide the fate of the infirm and disabled. Of course, Palin’s claim — thoroughly discredited — was one of the most widely covered stories of the year. But for Walsh, none of that mattered. Death panels were “a marker for the entire Sarah Palin story,” he says. “Sarah Palin makes the Left’s heads explode. If only for that, it belongs on the list.”

Just to review:
1. Walsh claimed “death panels” was one of the stories the mainstream media missed and implied it was true, stating that “In one pithy phrase, the Woman Who Drives the Left Nuts [Palin] drove them nuts yet again by summing up all that is wrong and monstrous about Obamacare.”
2. In fact, “death panels” was (a) “one of the most widely covered stories of the year” and (b) utterly false. In other words, it wasn’t missed and it wasn’t a legitimate story.
3. Walsh says he doesn’t care and that “death panels” belongs on the list anyway because it infuriates liberals.

Update 3/12 1:59 PM: Per David’s comment below, I should clarify that Walsh changed his criteria for “death panels,” stating that “the MSM ignored/made fun of the story” (other stories are listed simply as being “ignored”). However, the claim that the mainstream media made fun of “death panels” doesn’t stand up to scrutiny either. A substantial portion of coverage was critical, but rightly so — the claim was false! In addition, many outlets were far too agnostic in their reporting about the merits of the claim.