Charles Blow, an Op/Ed columnist for the NY Times, tries to make a distinction with out a difference, projects, and ends up confusing himself in An Article of Faith:
"And there it was. Obama’s language focused on what people “know,” or should know. He seems to find comfort in the empirical nature of knowledge. It’s logical. Limbaugh’s language focused on what he thinks people “believe.” Beliefs are a more complicated blend of facts, or lies, and faith. And, they can exist beyond the realm of the rational.
This focus on faith has allowed people like Limbaugh to mislead and manipulate large swaths of the right."
There you have it. People are simple, mind-numbed robots lost in the wilderness. Excepting, of course, the elite minds in the hallowed halls of gub'mint & media that make such determinations.
I wonder if this is what Mr. Blow knows, or what he believes?