j_b Posted November 2, 2004 Posted November 2, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?pagewanted=6 In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency. The aide 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.'' Quote
Peter_Puget Posted November 2, 2004 Posted November 2, 2004 Ok J_B I have had enough of your BS. I never heard you complain once when Jello Biafra sang: "God told me to skin you alive!" Quote
j_b Posted November 2, 2004 Author Posted November 2, 2004 nooo!!! don't tell me someone voted for jello biafra to create their own reality from the whitehouse!!! btw there are quite a few other pearls in that article i linked. i'll leave to you to appreciate them on your own. Quote
fredrogers Posted November 2, 2004 Posted November 2, 2004 Here's another pearl that I hope the current preseident doesn't get to repeat. http://static.vidvote.com/movies/bushuncensored.mov IMHO nothing captures his personality quite like it. Quote
scott_harpell Posted November 2, 2004 Posted November 2, 2004 Here's another pearl that I hope the current preseident doesn't get to repeat. http://static.vidvote.com/movies/bushuncensored.mov IMHO nothing captures his personality quite like it. That's it, I am voting for him. Fuckin' A! the "one fingered victory salute." He'll be using that one tomorrow night. Quote
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