They Think You're Stupid

In his article Bush's War on the Press Eric Alterman reports of what an unnamed Bush official told reporter Ron Suskind.

"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 thing will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

He also reported of what another Bush adviser as saying, "Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered two to one by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working people who don't read the New York Times or the Washington Post or the LA Times."

If these kinds of statements don't alarm you to a great degree, no matter if you are on the left or the right, then you better look a little closer to what is at stake. These bastards are and will "creating other new realities." It's called propoganda folks. It called lying to further the interests of corporate America.

And I hope all those from the Midwest understand in the second quote the gist of the second quote is. They think you don't read the news and therefore they can say things like "we are the new reality" because they think you're too damn ignorant to know any better! They're using you to further the agenda they have which only benefits the extremely wealthy and large corporations!