ZOT!! Without a Doubt

NYTimes Magazine ^ | October 17, 2004 | Ron Suskind

[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.

[Fiddlstix]

Great Graphic!

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

[DocRock]

[b4its2late]

That's fine. You can have it.

[Fiddlstix]

Thanks J

[afnamvet]

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[CaptSkip]

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[itsamelman]

Aw, now you've gone and done it.

[baseballfanjm]

[Chode]

you ASK for it... you GOT it... ZOT!!!

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[trussell]

[conservativo]

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[glock rocks]

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[Delta 21]

DAMN! ! !

I think you got him.

[Doomonyou]

Hey Pinhead,

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

[MarineBrat]

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?

[tet68]

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.

[darkwing104]

I caught this picture of you eariler today...

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[Dutchgirl]

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