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6. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality." - Rove
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 11:49 AM
Oct 2020

The quote in the reply title is from Ron Suskind’s 2004 book.

I read this in the Times the other day and it was really good, so read the full version instead of only the snip.

What the WSJ (NOT the opinion side) did was a loud and public push-back on Rove and the Reich trying to control the message! It’s the shot heard aimed at Drudge, Breitbart, Clownhall, the Federalist, and numerous Reich-wing blogs and Twitter posters.

The article says the crap from them goes nowhere unless it is picked up by their hated “mainstream media”. If they don’t pick it up and run with it, it dies in the dust. They NEED that media they claim to hate.

The last sentences (Mr. Murray is a WSJ Editor)

“But the special nervousness that many outlets, including this one, feel about the provenance of the Hunter Biden emails is, in many ways, the legacy of the WikiLeaks experience.

I’d prefer to put my faith in Mr. Murray and careful, professional journalists like him than in the social platforms’ product managers and executives. And I hope Americans relieved that the gatekeepers are reasserting themselves will also pay attention to who gets that power, and how centralized it is, and root for new voices to correct and challenge them.”

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