Ah yes, I remember reading in the news about the repair bills for the tank treads that got jammed up by the guts and ground up brains and bones of the protestors, and the diseases that spread through the area like wildfire from the hosing down of thousands of raw hamburger piles that used to be living, thinking, humans, washed down into the water supply like so much toxic waste, that fateful day in the West's darker moments that will be remembered forev...

Wait, no, that didn't happen.

I don't want to outlaw political hyperbole, but it should be roundly dismissed and mocked by all sides whenever it occurs.