An editorial printed in the New York Sun in 1897 in response to a question from a troll, who for some reason they refer to as Little Virginia:
Dear Editor---
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Fitz. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Fitz?
Virginia O'Hanlon
Virginia, your little cronies are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a deceitful age. Their base does not believe except what they're told. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All Republican minds, Virginia, whether they be pundit, Freeper or Extreme Christian Right, are little. In this great universe of ours, the extreme right is a mere insect, like an ant, in their intellect as compared with the boundless world about them, as measured by the common intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Fitz. He exists as certainly as truth and justice and karma exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its sense of reality. Alas! how deceived would be the world if there were no Fitz! It would be as deceived as if there were no truth. There would be no accountability then, no principles, no righteousness to make tolerable this existence. We should have no reality-based community. The external light with which truth fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Fitz! You might as well not believe in special investigators. You might get your big daddy to hire men to watch all the doors at the White House to catch Fitz, but even if you did not see Fitz coming, what would that prove? Nobody sees Fitz, but that is no sign that there is no Fitz. The most real things in the world are those that neither prevaricators or traitors can see. Did you ever see special investigators knocking on a door? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all of the cooperating informers there are unseen and unseeable in the halls of corrupted power.
You tear apart the first indictment and see only a single defendant, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest spinner, nor even the united strength of all the strongest spinners and obfuscaters that ever lived could tear apart. Only dedication, perseverance, steadfastness, determination, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal truth and justice beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else more real and abiding.
No Fitz! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the righteous heart.
