(Journalists like you belong to) what we call the reality-based community...(people who) believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernable reality...That's not the way the world really works anymore.  We're an Empire now, and when we act, we can 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.

-Karl Rove