Journalists dismissed as part of "the reality-based community"

In 2004, journalist Ron Suskind interviewed a top aide to President George W. Bush. (It's believed the aide was Karl Rove.) As Suskind reported in his NY Times magazine article:

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 judicious study of discernible reality.” ... “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we 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.