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    The Report

    Nov 03, 2019 3 minutes
    BY SUKHDEV SANDHU

    Director: Scott Z. Burns

    Country/Distributor: USA, Amazon

    Opening: November 15

    THE PROPHETIC BOMBAST OF KARL ROVE hangs heavy over Scott Z. Burns’s . Speaking to a journalist back in 2004, the former Senior Advisor to George W. Bush supposedly dismissed what he called “the reality-based community”—by which he meant those anachronistic sad sacks who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” Warming to his theme, he reportedly continued, “We’re an empire now, and when we act,

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