Posted on 10/18/2004 10:56:56 AM PDT by jiswalsingh
A couple of excerpts from "Without a Doubt" in NYTime's Ragazine:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?pagewanted=1&oref=login
The aide [to Bush] said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
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And for those who don't get it? That was explained to me in late 2002 by Mark McKinnon, a longtime senior media adviser to Bush, who now runs his own consulting firm and helps the president. He started by challenging me. "You think he's an idiot, don't you?" I said, no, I didn't. "No, you do, all of you do, up and down the West Coast, the East Coast, a few blocks in southern Manhattan called Wall Street. Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered 2 to 1 by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working people who don't read The New York Times or Washington Post or The L.A. Times. And you know what they like? They like the way he walks and the way he points, the way he exudes confidence. They have faith in him. And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us. Because you know what those folks don't like? They don't like you!" In this instance, the final "you," of course, meant the entire reality-based community.
Welcome to FR!
"In this instance, the final "you," of course, meant the entire reality-based community."
In this case "reality" seems to be a rather subjective term.
It is the term that Bush aide used, after all.
Jeez, I wonder what meds they take to find 'reality', or is it just something in the water?
None of it makes sense anyway. Typical of most of the crap that oozes out of the Times.
No Way!
The faith of Left is socialism is a lot harder to justify that Bush's faith in God.
What a jerk.
That worm won't fish...no matter how long and far you TROLL with it.
Ah, Ozone........
Um, he's right.
We don't like you and your ilk.
"You" means all you left-wing, self-righteous, treasonous racists, who think that sacrificing the lives of Americans for feelgood policies that you have no intention of applying to your selves is OK!
That's "The faith of the Left IN socialism . . ."
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