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ZOT!! Without a Doubt
NYTimes Magazine ^ | October 17, 2004 | Ron Suskind

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.


TOPICS: Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: iamatroll; suskind; troll; zot
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To: b4its2late
Great Graphic!

(Consider it stolen. I just grabbed it. lol)

41 posted on 10/18/2004 12:07:46 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: jiswalsingh

42 posted on 10/18/2004 12:09:02 PM PDT by DocRock ('X' marks the spot... where Charley, Frances and Jeanne crossed paths and where I live!)
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To: Fiddlstix

That's fine. You can have it.


43 posted on 10/18/2004 12:16:05 PM PDT by b4its2late (John John Kerry Edwards change positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
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To: b4its2late
Thanks J
44 posted on 10/18/2004 12:21:21 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: jiswalsingh; MeekOneGOP

Yep, without a doubt...you're one dead troll!

45 posted on 10/18/2004 12:30:48 PM PDT by afnamvet (Tuy Hoa AB RVN 68-69 Jet Noise...The Sound of Freedom!)
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To: Rutles4Ever
Hey Rutles4Ever!

Cool image! I'm in OKC and love all twister images. Did you create this?
46 posted on 10/18/2004 12:38:22 PM PDT by CaptSkip (Dan the NewsMan says, "Karma sucks, but Nixonian Karma?...that's a B*tch!")
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To: jiswalsingh


Aw, now you've gone and done it.

47 posted on 10/18/2004 12:44:05 PM PDT by itsamelman (“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
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To: jiswalsingh

48 posted on 10/18/2004 1:01:00 PM PDT by baseballfanjm
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To: jiswalsingh
you ASK for it... you GOT it... ZOT!!!

Shot:George - Yield:225 Kilotons - First Thermonuclear Test

49 posted on 10/18/2004 1:10:39 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: baseballfanjm

50 posted on 10/18/2004 1:12:08 PM PDT by trussell (Unemployed intellectual...will act like a pompous ass for food!!)
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To: jiswalsingh
Your official Certificate of Troll is located here: Official ZOT Certificate
51 posted on 10/18/2004 1:14:54 PM PDT by conservativo (A close to empty ketchup bottle is a good example of what John Kerry does under pressure: it farts!)
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To: baseballfanjm

Quality zot there, baseballfanjm!


52 posted on 10/18/2004 1:15:03 PM PDT by glock rocks (posted from the very heart of Reagan country)
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To: rightwingreligiousfanatic

DAMN! ! !

I think you got him.


53 posted on 10/18/2004 1:17:32 PM PDT by Delta 21 (MKC USCG -ret)
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To: jiswalsingh
Hey Pinhead,

How did it feel when he opened this up on you?:


54 posted on 10/18/2004 2:15:05 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Molon Labe! FMCDH!)
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To: jiswalsingh
You've been ZOTTED. There's only smoking ash left. Put it in a cup, add beer and season to taste. Hmmmmm.... how's it taste?


55 posted on 10/18/2004 2:28:21 PM PDT by MarineBrat
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To: jiswalsingh

They don't like you!"

In this instance, the final "you," of course, meant the entire reality-based community.


Another false assumption on the part of the author, just going to show that he was not based in reality at all.


56 posted on 10/18/2004 2:32:21 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: jiswalsingh
I caught this picture of you eariler today...


57 posted on 10/18/2004 4:55:28 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: MeekOneGOP
Please add me to the Viking Kitty post list.


58 posted on 10/18/2004 5:02:57 PM PDT by Aloysius88 (Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.)
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To: Aloysius88
Since Martin Fierro has not yet shown up...


59 posted on 10/18/2004 5:07:03 PM PDT by Dutchgirl (Professional Journalism "Can you smell what a crock they're cookin'?)
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To: Aloysius88
hahahaa!

Thanks, I've added you.


60 posted on 10/18/2004 7:22:28 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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