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“We’re an Empire Now” Revisited

Brendan Nyhan: September 2006: “a senior adviser to President Bush bragged to Ron Suskind in 2002 that the administration ‘create[s] our own reality’: 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.’ […]

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“We’re an empire now”

Crooks and Liars: “”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.’”

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Plush Life

Plush Life: “Dear Media, You blow Let me just say that all of you, the entire journalism industry, are a bunch of suck-ass idiots. You know that what Kerry said was not an insult to the troops. You know it was a botched punchline, and yet you take republican talking points and run amok like […]

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Friedman- Right/Schmight

“Tom Friedman: What does being right have to do with it? By: John Amato @ 2:02 PM – PDT Video-WMP Video-QT H/T to Kurtz for picking up his six month mantra. Greg Sargent: K, the transcript’s in. Here’s what Tom Friedman had to say to Howard Kurtz yesterday about Iraq: You know, the problem with […]

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Silber getting it done…and written

Crooks and Liars » 2006 » June » 12: “Arthur Silber: ‘You therefore should feel free to disregard the following in its entirety. Perhaps a commentator like Tom Friedman is more suited to your tastes. Friedman has been consistently, relentlessly wrong about everything. Moreover, Friedman is admirably and extraordinarily conscientious in his refusal to recognize […]

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