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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 07:44 PM
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Tony Snow: Americans ‘Out of Touch With Reality’ In Iraq
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 07:46 PM
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1. Snow: "Americans are out of touch with America."
No, he hasn't quite said THAT yet, but ya know it's coming!

On second thought, considering how they've been telling us that the economy is "better than it seems", maybe they HAVE already said that.

:eyes:
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katsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 07:46 PM
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2. ROFL!
Keep talkin toneee. Keep insulting our intelligence.

I hope pukes enjoy their minority status which'll last 100 years if these goons keep talking.
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unlawflcombatnt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 07:47 PM
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3. Amazing
Do you know when Snow said this?
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Original Jack Donating Member (56 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 07:58 PM
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5. Try this
Q The only question, though, to press a little bit, is the view that the President has been determined, he's been resolved, and nobody questions that, but does he get it? I mean, is he fundamentally out of touch with what the reality is on the ground in Iraq?

MR. SNOW: No, I think what happens is, we may be out of touch with reality because we sit around and we look at fractional pictures on the screen. This is a President who gets exhaustive briefings on a daily basis about the situation. He knows more than anybody in this room about what's going on there. And as Commander-in-Chief, he also has solemn and important obligations to deal with the situation properly, as the Commander-in-Chief, and as somebody who is committed to a way forward that's going to create the independent and free and democratic Iraq.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070103-3.html
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 07:58 PM
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4. Tony, we know what you've been touching.
You'll go blind, I'm tellin' ya.
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stubtoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 07:59 PM
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6. Earth to Tony...
Whatcha smokin', Tony??
:smoke:
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 07:59 PM
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7. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."
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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."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101704A.shtml
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 08:13 PM
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8. Dearest Tony; being that yer too fucking stoopid to understand the
little typing in Poppa Bush's ISG report, try this.

‘BUSH ADMINISTRATION Significantly Underreporting The Violence In Iraq’

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/07/isg-underreporting-violence/
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 08:36 PM
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9. And don't forget the vast base of Bush supporters...
one even might call them the "silent majority".
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bigdarryl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 08:39 PM
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10. Tony pleassssse stop embarrassing yourself
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against all enemies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 08:48 PM
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11. Bush's nickname for him is "Tony Snowjob"
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Booster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 11:13 PM
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12. Well, Tony and Bush both are out of touch with what the American
want. You're just a liar, Mr. Snow.
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Az_lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 11:53 PM
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13. these fools really do live in a bubble...
:puke:
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 12:31 AM
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14. noooo....
they think we are all stupid
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