Burning churches, beaten up blacks, starving children, poisoned air and water, senior citizens eating dog food and dying in the streets for lack of food, medicine and housing, soldiers dying for Haliburton, advocating blowing up government buildings and beating up gays.....

Yea, come on, Democrats, quit holding back! Get emotional!!

talking to a rapt liberal audience about the role of emotion in politics

He went on the explain to rapt liberals other mind-boggling secrets only understood by those "in the know," such as:

Water is "wet."  Fire "burns."  Death "sucks."

You've seen the spoof. Now see the spoof of the spoof on YouTube: The Clintpranos: Bada Bong

Goodness. They are already hysterically emotional.

Look. Before I start, we already know that, generically speaking, it is the liberals who are emotional. They're the ones calling everyone names, marching in the streets, with the emotional bumper stickers, being actors and singers and playwrights. And likewise, when they enter the field of journalism, they are empowered to do what they do best - be emotional.

Not that any elitist liberal writers have sensed an urgent need to connect the dots and write the story, but there have been recent scientific studies which suggest that the amount of white matter in the brain has a lot to do with truth telling and the excess of emotions.

How's that? Allow me:

A USC study has found the first proof of structural brain abnormalities in people who habitually lie, cheat and manipulate others.

While previous research has shown that there is heightened activity in the prefrontal cortex – the area of the brain that enables most people to feel remorse or learn moral behavior – when normal people lie, this is the first study to provide evidence of structural differences in that area among pathological liars...

...The liars had significantly more “white matter” and slightly less “gray matter” than those they were measured against, Raine said.

Specifically, liars had a 25.7 percent increase in prefrontal white matter compared to the antisocial controls and a 22 percent increase compared to the normal controls. Liars had a 14.2 percent decrease in prefrontal gray matter compared to normal controls.

More white matter – the wiring in the brain – may provide liars with the tools necessary to master the complex art of deceit, Raine said.

“Lying takes a lot of effort,” he said.

From researchers from the University of California, Irvine and the University of New Mexico:

Gray [matter] is central to processing information and plays a vital role in aiding skills such as mathematics, map-reading, and intellectual thought. White matter connects the brain's processing centers and is central to emotional thinking, use of language, and the ability to do more than one thing at once.

White matter has to do more with the wiring in the brain (how it communicates and at what speed), while gray matter [brain cells] has more to do with actual IQ.

Interestingly, studies indicate that those with more white matter tend to be more liberal [teachers, writers, journalists etc.]. The study suggested that women have more white matter than men.

Bottom line: Liberals lie more than conservatives - because they simply have a more difficult time making a decision. I expect the examples should not be too difficult to locate.

Emotion?  Can we draw a connection to those irrational emotional teenage years and liberals?

White matter and impulsivity (That teenage feeling):

..the futile feeling that everything you says goes in one ear and out the other.

...The seat of such poor judgment might be found in the white matter microstructure in the brain’s prefrontal cortex, says Marisa Silveri, PhD, a psychologist in Yurgelun-Todd’s lab. The frontal cortex is associated with decision-making, insight, judgment and inhibitory control. Silveri, Yurgelun-Todd and colleagues use diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to examine white matter microstructure, the part of the brain that’s responsible for relaying signals between neurons in the gray matter. During adolescence, particularly in the frontal cortex, unneeded gray matter is pruned away and white matter, made up of axons covered by a lipid membrane known as myelin, increases. ..

As far as Drew Weston goes - the confusion may lie within.