Saddam..(yawn)..Guilty...Now back to the reality based community, Boys & Girls!

[farmbo]

Today's obligatory gum flapping over the Saddam verdict, following on the heels of this week's obsessive coverage of the Kerry flap, brought to mind the Ron Suskind "New Yorker" interview from 2002 of an anonymous Bush 'Aide'--widely suspected of being Karl Rove-- on the new 'realities' in Washington:

<snip> The aide said that guys like me (Suskind) 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.''<snip>

This statement-- blood-curdling in its callousness-- perfectly reflects the new Rovian paradigm, deployed with breathtaking efficiency with the Saddam verdict and the Kerry flap: 1) create a new reality, 2) rest of the world "studies" that new reality, 3) re-start the process.

Both of these stories were woven entirely out of Rovian whole cloth. The suspiciously-timed Saddam verdict was probably inputed from Rove's Outlook calender at least a year ago. Anyone who believes that the announcement of the verdict on the Sunday before the election-- in time for the Sunday yak shows-- is a sheer coincidence, is naive, bordering on delusional.

The Kerry flap, on the other hand, was part of the all-too-familiar pattern of Republican fake-outrage stories, played out on the GOP's Mighty Media Wurlitzer. There was literally no story there ...other than the GOP's Rovian response to the story, writ large by their media savvy and, alas, by the drearily- predictable tendency of Hillary and other timorous Democrats to amplify the story for Rove.

But make no mistake... this is just Rove "creating a new reality...".

So shrug these fake stories off... and get yourselves back to the reality based community.

We have work to do on Tuesday!

[think4yourself]

1. Spot On!

Did anyone really think he'd be declared INNOCENT? Now that would be reason to cover the story. Nobody cares! Now let's get that vote out.