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	<title><![CDATA[The Retreat from Empiricism and Ron Suskind's Intellectual Scoop]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-rosen/the-retreat-from-empirici_b_36772.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><em>Even realism has an obligation to be realistic.</em> --<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/061127ta_talk_packer">George Packer</a>.</p>

<p>The only piece of political journalism ever to make me cry was Ron Suskind's article, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?pagewanted=7&amp;ei=5090&amp;en=890a96189e162076&amp;ex=1255665600&amp;partner=rssuserland">Without a Doubt</a>, published in the New York Times Magazine shortly before the 2004 election. It was in that article that the famous passage appeared quoting a senior administration official on the myopia of the "reality-based community" when it came to understanding the government of George W. Bush.</p>

<p>Lately I have been thinking a lot...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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