Excerpt from 'Without a Doubt' by Ron Suskind NYT Magazine:
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?oref=login&oref=login

Reality

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."

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.

[NOTE: This was written almost two years ago. Since then, the polls
show that almost 70% of Americans DON'T like Bush. You can fool some of
the people...]

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.


Manning
(see all of Manning's excellent posts as they break, put this link in
your browser, use it, this is a search on google groups, on the author
Manning sorted by date... nothing fancy):
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?enc_author=ZbJKSRUAAAD8IkwYrEcJ8RYG6C7sxQ29j4yszzL5m-WcQDX22IyQPw&scoring=d


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stewartconnor replied:

Manning: a man keeping the truth coming.

Can you imagine that the entire Bush Crime Family is following such a treasonous (even >blasphemous, even outright Satanic) doctrine... AND CLEARLY THEY ARE.

and they have been pushing America in this direction for over fifty years:
http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/bushcrimefamily.htm