National Review struggles to defuse phrase "reality based community".

[norml]

Their Non-Reality Reality
National Review Online - Mar 17, 2005
... is bringing to bear. Liberals are not the “reality-based community,” they are the status-quo based community. They wish to stand ...

Handmaiden of the State
Antiwar.com, CA - Mar 17, 2005
... "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 ...

Liberal Myopia
National Review Online - Mar 10, 2005
... magazine in which he quoted an unnamed aide who introduced a new phrase which quickly became a term of derision for conservatives: "reality-based community.". ...

HANDMAIDEN OF THE STATE
Ether Zone, IL - Mar 15, 2005
... Obviously, the owners of the St. George are members of what that White House aide called "the reality-based community.". Another ...

EDITORIAL: White House invents reality
People's Weekly World - Mar 17, 2005
A senior White House official scornfully told a New York Times reporter last fall that “the reality-based community” believes “solutions emerge from ...

THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF WASHINGTON
Ether Zone, IL - Mar 10, 2005
Our penchant for asking too many inconvenient questions reveals our pathetically archaic insistence on belonging to "the reality-based community," as one top ...

by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com, CA - Mar 10, 2005
... Our penchant for asking too many inconvenient questions reveals our pathetically archaic insistence on belonging to "the reality-based community," as one top ...

Beating Bush at 'Information War'
Consortium News - Mar 15, 2005
... But Bush’s hostility to what one White House adviser has dubbed the “reality-based community” also represents an opening for the Democrats, a way to ...

Fake Religion, Real Philosophy
Dissident Voice, CA - Mar 10, 2005
... Those of the reality-based community should not shudder at the employment of ‘spiritual,’ for it is indeed the human spirit and the world, that we serve. ...

Call it "What's the Matter With Kansas - The Cartoon Version."
Vallejo Times-Herald, CA - Mar 16, 2005
... People like myself - members of what one scornful Bush aide called the "reality-based community" - tend to attribute the right's electoral victories to its ...




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[applegrove]

1. Yup - we are also the Good Information party. Conservatives seemed

to have boxed themselves in.

[magellan]

2. Too little too late, National Review

We are anything but the "status quo based community". We're enthusiastically all for changing the status quo, especially where it concerns seeing every last one of you scumbag sociopathic neocon criminals do the perp walk.

You so richly deserve that, for so many reasons. And we in the reality-based community are the ones to make it happen.

[DIKB]

3. ummm

isn't maintaining the "status quo" a CONSERVATIVE goal. Just by the definition of the term conservative ?

I understand the neocons are into radical regression, I assumed the average conservative was about "maintaining"

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. You're absolutely right

The whole idea of being a conservative is thinking "we've done OK in the past, let's not hurry to change things". Put like that, it's a respectable point of view - it just depends on the evidence, and your opinion of how well things really are going.

Maybe it's a bit of post-modernist irony from the National Review - "Look, we're so non-reality based that we can redefine the terms whenever we want"? Or maybe not. Maybe they're just a bunch of liars who will distort anything to score points off their opponents.

[norml]

5. From Their Non-Reality Reality

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On almost every significant area of public policy the Democrats are atrophied, rusty, and calcified. They're dependent upon old (condescending) notions about blacks, the patronage of teacher’s unions which care very little for the facts, and feminists who define liberation almost exclusively as the freedom to abort pregnancies despite all of the new, inconvenient facts science is bringing to bear. Liberals are not the “reality-based community,” they are the status-quo based community. They wish to stand athwart history yelling "Stop" — in some rare cases, even when history is advancing liberalism in tyrannical lands. The Buckleyite formulation of standing athwart history yelling "Stop" was aimed at a world where the rise of Communism abroad and soft-liberalism at home were seen as linked trends. Today, liberals yell "Stop" almost entirely because they don’t enjoy being in the backseat. If they cannot drive, no one can.

And — where was I going with this again? Oh yeah — I think this petulance explains the liberal obsession with the phrase “reality-based community.” It’s a form of transference or projection or whatever they call it. We can’t stand the new reality, so we’re going to insist that those who recognize it are the ones in denial.

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