Matthew Dowd is a Fundamentally Ridiculous Person: Capgras Syndrome Edition

From CBS News, November, 2 2015:

Man with rare disorder can't recognize his own reflection

A man who thought he saw a "stranger" in the bathroom mirror, when he was actually looking at his own reflection, turned out to have a rare neurological condition, a new case report finds.

The 78-year-old man in France, identified in the report as Mr. B, noticed a stranger in his house. Mr. B said that the stranger looked just like him, but stayed in the bathroom mirror, according to the authors of the report published online Aug. 25 in the journal Neurocase.

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After a checkup, doctors diagnosed Mr. B with a condition called atypical Capgras syndrome. In a regular case of Capgras syndrome (named after French psychiatrist Joseph Capgras, who first published a report on the disorder in 1923), a person thinks that a friend or family member has been replaced with an identical imposter.

Mr. B's case was atypical because his delusion did not concern another person, but himself, Diard-Detoeuf told Live Science in an email...

As I have pointed out several hundred times already, one of the most toxic side effects of the Big Lie of Both Sides Do It is that, thanks to years of relentless repetition by the Beltway media, every single wingnut in Christendom has been trained to automatically pull out "But Both Sides Do It" as their all purpose, get-out-of-accountability-free alibi every single time another batshit Conservative lie or conspiracy theory blows up in their face:

I am speaking, of course, of The High and Holy Church of Both Siderism.

The God of The High and Holy Church of Both Siderism has ruled the American political media for most of our lives, and its deacons and cardinals and popes have made themselves wealthy and influential by spreading it doctrine everywhere.  It has smothered every honest attempt at healing what is broken in our culture, and provided the Right with a permanent alibi for every atrocity they commit...

Well now that we have come to the "reaping the whirlwind" portion of our show, take a good look at who cannot recognize his own reflection when it bleats "But both sides!" right back at him.

When I tried that one with my parents, the response was "so if everyone jumped off a cliff would you do it too?" You mean that excuse?

— Pat Bennett (@patbennettaz) July 11, 2017

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