Reply #95: I agree that he's not a genius, BUT a common practice of his is to take an existing rumor [View All]

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and add in some juicy false leads. Then when others chase those down and publicize them, he splashes in with a big news story about the false accusation.

In the Rather case, the stories about Dubya's draft dodging and preferential treatment were true. Documents existed confirming that. But Rove slipped some faked editions of those documents to Rather and directed his own bloggers to "discover the forgery" and blew the story up enough to get Rather fired.


Rove's no genius. He's just trying to follow his heroes like Lee Atwater. He's very willing to suspend his ethics to achieve his goals. The ends justify the means for him.