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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI always wondered what this chilling quote from Bush adviser Karl Rove meant in practice-Now we know
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-and-the-presidency-of-george-w-bush.html?_r=0
NOW WE KNOW
Chilcot Report:
http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/media/246416/the-report-of-the-iraq-inquiry_executive-summary.pdf
calimary
(81,674 posts)We forget this one at our peril.
Botany
(70,714 posts)cheat elctions, put don siegleman into jail, and lie to start a war and Rove and his
"new reality" right in the middle.
J. Goebbels, If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
PatSeg
(47,857 posts)was a disturbing walk down memory lane. A reminder that it was even worse than I sometimes remember.
LuvNewcastle
(16,869 posts)For the past 35 years or so, they have created this new reality where facts don't matter and learned people are ridiculed.
Fox News and other media outlets reinforce this new reality. That's why Fox watchers are such addicts and RWers insist on talking about politics all the time. When they're away from Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. they are in another reality that they don't grasp and it makes them very uncomfortable.
PatSeg
(47,857 posts)non-political people talked about sports, TV, the neighbors, religion, etc. Republicans lured those people to the polls and now they are stuck with them and we are stuck with the choices they made.
ck4829
(35,109 posts)The American Right: "Those who remember the past hate America, are secret Muslims, and are probably gay too"
arcane1
(38,613 posts)They are just more obvious about it.
Mika
(17,751 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)they mean every word they say. It's a holy crusade with them too. Bush even said that, after 9/11.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)can we go back to the ridiculously inept prosecution of the Scooter, and rehash the reasons Rove was NOT hauled away in chains? remember when Fitzgerald was hailed as the second coming, and what a joke that turned out to be?
and is there a statute of limitations on treason?
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)But it's a good start.
wiggs
(7,833 posts)Boomerproud
(8,008 posts)I'm not being snarky, just prefer to attribute the quote to the correct person(s).
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)herding cats
(19,569 posts)Originally (2004?) it was said to be an "unnamed aide in the article, but has since been attributed to Karl Rove.
wiggs
(7,833 posts)never saw it attributed to a named source until now.
wiggs
(7,833 posts)spent in districts to help elect republicans. I believe it was investigated....but no charges.
ansible
(1,718 posts)wiggs
(7,833 posts)false assertions about every single issue out there? Applies today even more so than back then.
wiggs
(7,833 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)O'Brien would have said in 1984
Rex
(65,616 posts)So now can we get a court case against them? The Hague should be informed.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Sort of the Divine Right of Bullshit.
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