Rove taunted at University of Iowa

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: CNN

March 10, 2008

(CNN) — Former top Bush aide Karl Rove didn't get the friendliest of receptions at the University of Iowa Sunday, CNN affiliate KCRG reports. Rove, who was paid $40,000 to speak at the University, was confronted with an at-times hostile crowd of 1,000, and was interrupted on several occasions.

At one point during the speech, Rove reportedly lashed out at some of the students, saying, "You got a chance to ask your questions later and make your stupid statements, let me make mine."

Police also were forced to remove two people after they tried to perform a citizen’s arrest on Rove for what they said were his crimes while a member of the Bush Administration.

At one point, a person asked Rove if he has ever shed a tear over the war in Iraq. "I shed a lot of tears and I have been inspired by many of the people who feel their son or daughter should not have to die in vain," he replied.

Toward the end of the speech a member of the crowd yelled, "Can we have our $40,000 back?" Rove replied, “No, you can't.”...

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/10/rove-taunted-at-university-of-iowa/

[midnight]

1. I do hope that this is a sign of the times to come, because.....

with comments like this......"I shed a lot of tears and I have been inspired by many of the people who feel their son or daughter should not have to die in vain," he replied. This man should be in Jail....

[mikelewis]

121. Shhh.... holding people accountable for crimes against humanity is un-American. n/t

[Pirate Smile]

2. Why the hell is my alma mater paying that jackass $40,000 to speak?

:wtf:

He got the reception I would expect him to get in Iowa City.

[jwirr]

3. I agree. I am proud of our protesters though. To be honest that is

not unusual for U of I. When I was there I was one of the activists who loved to rattle the idiots. Go Iowa Go.

[Divernan]

6. Some neocon in university administration & some neocon student org.

put that deal together, no doubt. What a waste of tuition.

[AndyA]

11. Be sure and let them know how you feel.

Especially the next time they ask you for money. Now you know what they're using it for. :puke:

[calimary]

33. ABSOLUTELY let them know how you feel.

ANYBODY who's an alum of a college or university should make that clear, PREEMPTIVELY. Perhaps it will short-sheet his speaking plans for other college campuses in the future.

Let's make him a PARIAH across the country.

[MissDeeds]

43. I did

Kansas State invited not only Rumsfeld but Bush to speak, and I have not contributed one dime to the university since - and won't. It gives me great pleasure to tell them exactly why my husband and I are no longer making generous contributions on a yearly basis. F'tards.

[Kolesar]

49. Rove exposed a CIA operative and got some of our contacts killed

At least that is how I recall it.

[MissDeeds]

78. Of course

And Bush and Rumsfeld lied us into a war that got thousands of innocent people killed. They are all liars and criminals.

[hedgehog]

71. There must be a law somewhere that says whoever books speakers

for college campuses is required to prove how cool they are by selecting the most edgy speaker they can find. It's been that way for at least 30 years. The really unfortunate part is that generally the overpaid speakers are paid from the slush fund A/K/A mandatory student activity fee.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

77. The $40,000 is income Rove "earned" (and I use that word loosely)

in Iowa, so he should file a tax return there, should he not? I know I paid Oregon taxes for the money I earned there, while filing a return in Virginia for the same year.

Iowa accountants, I expect you to keep track of this.

[Counciltucky]

83. Damn straight.

As a Hawkeye myself, I'm not proud of the University, but I'm damn proud of the students.

[dhill926]

4. hope this happens everywhere...

this piece of shit speaks. Except for the $40,000 part. That's just plain sickening.

[H8fascistcons]

70. Yes, Yes it is...

Please don't forget, progressives, these criminal Fascist republicans continue to to commit crimes against the constitution and America because the the Fascist enablers Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, Rahm Emanuel, Jay Rockefeller, Steny Hoyer who refuse to hold impeachment hearings. Please never forget until these Democrats are voted out of office....

[chat_noir]

5. Rove, crowd at U of I trade barbs

Uowa City, Ia. - By the time Karl Rove took the stage at the University of Iowa Sunday, groups from around eastern Iowa had been protesting his presence for two hours.

The protesters staged a mock trial for President Bush's former top adviser inside the U of I's student union and draped the side of a nearby parking ramp with a 60-foot anti-Rove banner that police quickly removed.

As soon as Rove entered the room, boos, shouts of "traitor" and "war criminal," and occasional cheers emanated from the roughly 900 audience members - and lasted the entire hour and a half in which Rove took questions.

After the most boisterous protesters were escorted outside by police, U of I journalism professor Frank Durham, whose body of research has included study of the Bush administration's relationship with the press, began quizzing Rove on issues ranging from foreign policy to the state of the U.S. Constitution.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008803100332

[DeepModem Mom]

9. Wow! Thanks for linking to this additional info! nt

[Deny and Shred]

23. Thanks for the extra info, Chat Noir. I found this link from the article particularly

amusing. Rove was taken out for dinner and drinks after speaking. I don't think is was the cushy treatment to which he's been accustomed.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=PluckPersona&U=c93e5f51e57d4a1696a5e44246b6eb53&plckController=PersonaBlog&plckScript=personaScript&plckElementId=personaDest&plckPersonaPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3ac93e5f51e57d4a1696a5e44246b6eb53Post%3abd8fae27-92e3-426b-a23c-d5df55e2f80a&sid=sitelife.desmoinesregister.com

Hats off Iowa.

[calimary]

34. Thanks! This stuff warms my heart!!!

:yourock:

[dixiegrrrrl]

69. ty for link to the Iowa paper

it further showed how delusional Rove is....

[shrike]

122. The Karl Rove story the media didn't get

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=PluckPersona&U=c93e5f51e57d4a1696a5e44246b6eb53&plckController=PersonaBlog&plckScript=personaScript&plckElementId=personaDest&plckPersonaPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3ac93e5f51e57d4a1696a5e44246b6eb53Post%3abd8fae27-92e3-426b-a23c-d5df55e2f80a&sid=sitelife.desmoinesregister.com

Doubt this link will work, but this is a heck of a good story. By David Goodner, who is currently getting roasted in his blog.

Here are highlights:

Karl Rove avoided, denied, lied, obfuscated, smeared, and spun the truth at a $40,000 UI Lecture Committee-sponsored event in Iowa City Sunday night, but his afterparty at the 126 restaurant on the corner of Dubuque and Washington was interrupted by a crew of citizen protesters calling for his arrest.

snip

But the real action happened after Rove's speech (he ducked every question thrown at him or retreated to ideological arguments that obfuscated the truth), when the reconnassiance wing of the UI Antiwar Committee received secret intel that the Lecture Committee was treating Rove to dinner and drinks at the bourgeois 126 restaurant.

snip

"Karl Rove, we know you're in there," I said through the bullhorn. "We have the place surrounded. Come out with your hands up."

Students began pouring out of their apartments, many joined our picketline, we received alot of support, and two guys even brought us hot coffee. When Rove tried to sneak out the back door, we ran around to Dubuque Street and blocked his escape route out of the alley. Rove ran back inside and eventually walked out the front door and drove off.

[lonestarnot]

7. I hope this little wad faces this in his every walk of life.

[pingzing58]

8. Rove and Bush et al's disregard for disrespect of the American public has come

back to bite them in the ass. Good for Iowa. These students are no fools. All Rove could do, it seems, is shout back like an idiot who has no way of defending his criminal actions but to use an ad hominem attack.

[nancyr]

10. He belongs behind bars.

[doublethink]

19. UPDATE ......

One of my all time favorite pics of the guy.

on edit: think it was someone here on DU who photo-shopped this awhile back. Cudos.

[trusty elf]

35. The urine-soaked pants are a nice touch!

:thumbsup:

[murielm99]

53. I want to see this in real life.

And I want our language to change so that the name Rove becomes a household word.

I want it to be in the same category as a guy named Quisling or a guy named Boycott. Their names became interchangeable with "traitor who works with the enemy or occupier" and "abstain from buying or dealing with as a protest."

I want Rove's name to mean a campaign or government official who smears, lies, ruins, demeans the opposition, and who breaks the law and gets away with it. I hope it also comes to mean a person who is caught in the end and jailed.

Many people don't know the origins of the words quisling or boycott. But the history is there for anyone who is interested. Let this happen to Rove!

[mojowork_n]

72. Write to Dan Savage. (Google "Santorum" + "frothy mix") n/t

[Olney Blue]

100. I think that "Rovian" politics is already starting to stick... I agree with

you- it is a name that should live in infamy.

[swimmernsecretsea]

90. Let's see Rove do the "Perpwalk" ! nt

[boilinmad]

119. Look at...

...the little squealing piggie....Karl Rove is the most despicable man on earth.

[Irishonly]

12. Good For Them

At one point during the speech, Rove reportedly lashed out at some of the students, saying, "You got a chance to ask your questions later and make your stupid statements, let me make mine."

Isn't is refreshing to know Rove acknowledges his statements are stupid?:rofl:

[truth2power]

41. I was looking to see if anyone else noticed the construction

of that remark. Bwahaha... :rofl:

Like Bush, he inadvertantly tells the truth.

[geardaddy]

54. I noticed that too!

I think we should nominate R*ve for the Top 10 list.

[grannylib]

104. My first thought on reading that line...bet he didn't think THAT one

through before he let his mouth run

[notadmblnd]

60. I saw that comment and it reminded me of that line from the movie

The Breakfast club, where the teacher says to the student "I eat shit like you for breakfast."

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

103. A more modern remark.....

Would have been for the students to shout "WE DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE...."

[Rambis]

13. UI comes through

I was hoping he would get the business coming here. I wish we could have ignored the bastard but it was too tempting to go and protest. I went to Jimmy Carter at UI last year he didn't get shouted down. Wonder why?

[Deny and Shred]

14. For a guy who made sure the only crowds GWB spoke to were

handpicked, I am surprised at this choice of venue. He'll figure out that he can make his speaking $$ to more appreciative audiences. Lord knows there are still plenty of people on whom the hypnosis worked.
You are getting sleeeepy...
"When I say taxes, liberal, or Clinton, you will boo. When I say freedom, troops or America, you will cheer."

[Alter Ego]

15. "You got a chance to ask your questions later and make your

stupid statements, let me make mine."

And people call this guy a political genius.

[Binka]

36. Doesn't The Fuck Know About Present & Past Tense?

You don't "got a chance to ask questions later" you GET a chance. At least he acknowledged that his statements are stupid. What an ignorant fat asshole. Disgusting pig shit. Good on the kids for shouting him down.

[Peace Patriot]

124. It doesn't take "genius" to pre-write the narratives for stolen elections! nt

[screembloodymurder]

16. They should have stormed the stage and

put a blubber hook through the bastard.

[ginnyinWI]

17. But he enjoys this kind of thing!

To be hated, booed and jeered makes him feel relevant!

I wish they would have sat in stony silence and just glared at him. So quite you could have heard a pin drop. That would have been a lot better treatment for the little jerk.

[politicaholic]

18. Citizen's arrest. LMAO!! I wish I had been one of those removed. n/t

[Magleetis]

20. It is my hope

that no member of the criminal shrub administration be able to appear in public without being reminded of their criminal activity. There will be no more hand selected audiences come November 08.

[geardaddy]

57. Exactly.

I'm thinking that they deserve the scarlet letter treatment.

[Bush_MUST_Go]

65. Amen! Hopefully they'll *all* be jeered wherever they go. Wipe their faces in it.

[ramapo]

21. What an obscene amount of money

$40K for a speech, especially by that turd, is sick. I realize that isn't even the high end of speaker's fees but it is sick nonetheless

[John Kerry VonErich]

29. Let's not turn this into a money situation.

That part of the issue would be turned around by the opposition by using Bill Clinton's $250,000 speach price. But anyways, I am very surprised that Rove got out alive.

[ejbr]

22. At least he made one truthful statement

Rove reportedly lashed out at some of the students, saying, "You got a chance to ask your questions later and make your stupid statements, let me make mine."

From there, he continued to make his stupid statements.

[bagrman]

28. That was my thought when I read it.

[bdamomma]

46. he is so arrogant his a$$ should be jail.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

24. Did he also say that he eats little pieces of shit like them for breakfast.? n/t

[JBoy]

39. $40,000 ??

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

47. They would have been better off giving the money to this guy. n/t

[driver8]

25. I honestly feel that if I was a student at that University, that I would

have punched Rove in the face.

[Stephanie]

26. Rove, you've been making YOUR stupid statements for 8 years now.

Shut. Up.

[NJCher]

27. what I call a "feel good" story

Except for the 40k part.



Cher

[oasis]

30. Kick for justice. Let the chips fall where they may.

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

31. Smug to the end

[havocmom]

32. Of course people feel their sons/daughters should not have died in vain.

But the sad fact is, they died for profits for the ruling class. That is worse than dying in vain as far as I can see.

People HAVE to hold on to the illusion that such loss had honorable purpose. Fact is, the troops deserve better leaders than what they have had in all this. Supporting them means taking the reins of government out of the hands of those who profit from spilling blood. Slapping a yellow magnet on the fender just doesn't do them justice.

[Uncle Joe]

37. I love the smell of burning turd blossoms in the air, it smells like victory.

With apologies to "Apocalypse Now".

[Bragi]

38. Great to see this happening

It's becoming clear that the Bushco crowd are the first US administration reps who, after leaving office, won't be able to travel abroad due to people wanting to have them prosecuted for war crimes, and won't be able to speak domestically because they will just attract angry, hostile audiences.

Sweet or what.

[LuckyLib]

87. And we need to vow to show up at any appearance of one of these thugs - *, Rover, Wolfowitz, Bremer,

the whole crew of thugs, and make it clear how much they are hated.

[YOY]

40. The word of the day is "Pariah"

You and your bosses will be that word until the day of your dying breath, scumbag.

"Unmarked gravestone" will be the words of that day.

[truthisfreedom]

42. Seriously put on the defensive! Wow, they made him look like what he is.

Amazing. Great work, Iowa City!

[kineneb]

44. Karma, karma, karma. Next come pitchforks. Heh. n/t

[bdamomma]

48. I loved when Rove found his car wrapped up in Saran Wrap

in DC. That was great.

[ConcernedCanuk]

45. Pay attention Condi - take your money and run, forget the speech circuit.

.
.
.
Or maybe Putin will hire her with her "expertise" in Russian/Soviet affairs?

I think not.

[global1]

50. Who At The University Booked Him - Was It The Administration Or A.....

student group? What could they possibly think they could learn from this guy?

[tabasco]

51. These murderous, traitorous criminals deserve public scorn

every time they show their rotten faces in public.

[rurallib]

52. Well I was there for a short while

Joined the protest out in the hall, then went inside.for a while. Had intended to walk out when Rove started and did so with some friends I met there. Doubt that we made any bit of a ripple.
What amazed me is that the crowd seemed to be majority Rove supportive or ambivalent. We were near the front. When we stood with our backs to Rove I looked around. The crowd seemed very docile. I was disappointed. I talked with a lady on the way out and she said she figured every RepubliKlan in Johnson county was there.
Of interest is that no recording devices were allowed after the introduction. I thought that to be extremely strange:(from the jcrepugs website)
===============================================================================================
NOTE TO MEDIA: There will be no media availability with Rove in connection with his appearance at the university. Television and radio journalists and news videographers and photographers may shoot and tape the event for the first five minutes of Rove's remarks. After that, reporters may take notes, but no recording devices may be used. A more detailed media advisory will be sent out next week. In the meantime, media interested in covering the event are asked to contact
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/february/020708karlrove_lecture.html

[tanyev]

56. Thanks for doing your part!

:applause:

[TechBear_Seattle]

63. The "no recording devices" rule has become standard for neo-con speeches

They have learned the hard way that their fabrications, lies and out right treason tend to come back and bite them hard.

[barbtries]

113. people should start doing it anyway

free press and all - besides, why follow the rules of one who never follows any rules?

[Lasher]

116. Among attendees, what appeared to be the ratio of student & faculty to outsider?

Just asking for a guess because it looks like the local repugs did what they could to load up the audience with kool aid drinkers. That's part of the Rove playbook. But his problem now is that he is not able to herd opponents off into free speech zones.

[Initech]

55. $40K for the spawn of satan to speak?

Man, they should've given it to me. Not only would I give a better speech than that fucker, I'd show up in University Of Iowa gear too!

[Dukkha]

58. he better stay inside the yes men barrier he made for *

or bunkered inside Faux. * is at 19% Cheney is 9% Rove may actually be in the negative, popular only in a parallel universe.

[NM Independent]

59. OUT

FUCKING

STANDING

Hooray for Iowa!!!!!!!!

[K-Check]

61. Rove has a right to speak...

...and so do his hecklers. And Rove's poison is much less dangerous when it's visible, in the open.

[Vickers]

120. "hecklers" ? Or Protesters?

:eyes:

Welcome to DU yadda yadda yadda...

[JaneQPublic]

62. An audience sure is tough without getting signed loyalty oaths first.

And I bet he's missing those old "Free Speech Zones."

[RavensChick]

64. And this is news, how?

I'm glad the students taunted him with their shouting. Hell, I'd be screaming too if it was my money going into his coffers. $40,000? For this asshole? I would'nt give him 40,000 pennies, okay?! I wish Congress can find a way somehow to bring his ass in for interrogation. Something! Anything to get this fool off the streets and into a holding cell where he belongs!

Ironically, my BFF's husband went to Iowa and he's a Vietnam vet. I'm sure when he hears of this he'll be sick the rest of the night but cheering the students at his alma mater for standing up to this tool.

[hisownpetard]

66. Thanks, Iowa!

:headbang: :headbang: :yourock: :headbang: :headbang:

[cascadiance]

67. I think they earlier tried to "sneak" in this event in February, but they got "snowed out" then...

I'd like to think that I helped get some of the folk going there at my alma mater getting geared up to protest him. It was cool they had an extra month to plan this. Perhaps if there is a God, he did this to make sure that Rove had to face the music before he'd get this cash, instead of trying to "sneak in" there.

http://iowaunderground.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7860

[claire_m]

68. Rove taunted? Good!

n/t

[happygoluckytoyou]

73. IN A RELATED STORY---->

The status of George Washington Carver (the only George W with any class)... was found hanging from a tree in the campus courtyard. A note found by the hanging status, apparently the last words of the statue before hanging himself, read "Carl... you are a dick... please leave campus or I will kill myself"

[cascadiance]

75. I wonder if Iowa City's Black Angel statue turned a shade more black during Rove's visit...

http://www.prairieghosts.com/oakland.html

[kestrel91316]

74. My beloved and VERY liberal niece is in the Graduate Writer's

Workshop at U of I and I hope she was there jeering Rove!!!!!! I'm very proud of the Hawkeyes!

[Heywood J]

76. "You got a chance to ask your questions later and make your stupid statements, let me make mine."

Spoiled. Whiny. Brat.

Police also were forced to remove two people after they tried to perform a citizen’s arrest on Rove for what they said were his crimes while a member of the Bush Administration.

I'm sure some law student will have a field day with defending them, it'll make for an interesting course paper.

Toward the end of the speech a member of the crowd yelled, "Can we have our $40,000 back?" Rove replied, “No, you can't.”...

"I've already paid my tab with the hookers."

[cascadiance]

92. For 40k, I think they were enttitled to use him for a dunk tank treatment...

... or something similar. He's obviously completely whoring himself for that cash. He's gotta be ready for those who paid that money to get their money's worth one way or the other!

[bronxiteforever]

79. The blood of thousands upon his head-way to go Iowa! You get a salute

:patriot:

[grace0418]

80. "...and make your stupid statements, let me make mine." So he knows whatever he says is bullshit?

I thought pathological liars actually started believing their lies after a while.

[Herman74]

81. Can you imagine what would have happened had Rove spoke at UC Berkeley?

Arnie would have felt compelled to send in the National Guard to "restore order." Of course, none of the University of California schools would have ever offered Rove $40,000 to speak to begin with.

[TheCowsCameHome]

88. Roasted and covered in a succulent brown sugar glaze - Yummy

[mtnester]

118. Honestly? I would schedule my vacation around, and PAY

to watch that event.

I would also pay for my trip by sellling rotten tomatoes out front. Or whipped cream and foil pie pans. Oh hell YES I would want to watch the fun.

[santamargarita]

82. What, no rotten eggs?

H&R

[muntrv]

84. That $40,000 should have been spent on a scholarship for an impoverished

and gifted student.

[ailsagirl]

85. LOL

"You got a chance to ask your questions later and make
your stupid statements, let me make mine."

Couldn't have said it better myself, Karl

:rofl:

[TheCowsCameHome]

86. 40K to have a talking pig give a speech?

Tough call.

[trthnd4jstc]

89. How is it this A$$ can make $40 Grand for 1 speech?

If I am lucky, I will pay myself $40 grand this year, and that is with myself working about 60 hours a week, and this A$$ can make $40 grand for 1 speech. My Dad said the world wasn't fair. BushCo grinds that in every day.

[Catherine Vincent]

91. Can we have our $40,000 back?" Rove replied, “No, you can't.”...

:rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:

[Doctor_J]

93. The fat cowardly loser has pretty thin skin, doesn't he?

I hope the death penalty is still legal when he's convicted of treason.

[Oslo]

94. He spat on Sheryl Crow

This guy thinks his shit doesn't stink... "You can make your stupid remarks later"
A refresher of how he treated Sheryl Crow and Laurie David at last year's White House Correspondents Dinner:

"In his attempt to dismiss us, Mr. Rove turned to head toward his table, but as soon as he did so, Sheryl reached out to touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, "Don't touch me." How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow? Unfazed, Sheryl abruptly responded, "You can't speak to us like that, you work for us." Karl then quipped, "I don't work for you, I work for the American people." To which Sheryl promptly reminded him, "We are the American people."

[Thor_MN]

95. I take back every bad thing I've ever said about Iowa

I'm wondering if I could get about 27,000 people together so we could tell that whore what we thought of him - it would be worth a buck fifty to slap him around a bit.

I'd prefer to throw tomatoes at him, but KKKarl doesn't seem to be a Renaissance kind of guy.

[RobertDevereaux]

96. Why don't the cops LET JUSTICE BE DONE???

"Police also were forced to remove two people after they tried to perform a citizen’s arrest on Rove for what they said were his crimes while a member of the Bush Administration."

How refreshing it would have been if those two people had been *allowed* to arrest this criminal.

But thanks, U of Iowa students.

My alma mater!

[bullwinkle428]

97. This human pusbag was reduced to using U.S. troops as human shields -

he was accused by one of the questioners as having "blood on his hands", and answered by accusing "the individual of 'perpetuating libel on the military of the United States by accusing them of killing innocent Iraqis.'"

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080310/NEWS/803100332/1001/NEWS

[Stargleamer]

98. This part about trying to arrest him. . .

thru a citizen's arrest was interesting. I wonder what, of all the possible charges they could charge him with, what they had decided upon and what they were going to use to back up the charge(s).

[jeff30997]

99. That is so great !

I wonder what Pigboy would have responded if someone had asked:"Can we have our country back?", instead of the 40000$ ?

[Lint Head]

101. Why is this lying fuck allowed to walk the streets?

Who are the people that let this son of a bitch work or book this prick for events? They are abetting a criminal. :dem:

[Connonym]

102. I live in WI but I'm from Iowa

and I consider myself an Iowan first and foremost. In that spirit can I please indulge in a "fuck you in your Iowa bigotry" to a lot of people who, in their frustration over the primary system, were dismissive of Iowans as (I hope I'm quoting this correctly) "too rural, too white and too evangelical" to have valid opinions. I'm assuming these are people who have never been to the great state of Iowa or who have only looked at it through the lenses of a distorted sense of superiority that leads them to believe they're superior to "fly over" states.

[LiberalFighter]

105. Who sponsored Rove's appearance and where was the funding from?

[Iwillnevergiveup]

106. You've come a long way, Hawkeyes!

I attended Iowa U. waaaay back in 1964 when the most "demonstrating" we did was to inject oranges with vodka and smuggle them into Big 10 football games. But, in all fairness, that was in the idyllic pre-Vietnam days. KUDOS for standing up to a truly heinous, heinous idiot.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

107. Raise your hand if you earn $40,000 every time you spew shit...

I don't earn $40G in a year...

[ananda]

108. What an asshole that Rove is!

Go students!

[Hardrada]

109. As a former grad student at the U of Iowa and as a former SDS

organizer there I can only express my extreme joy and appreciation at Herr Rove's great discomfiture! Go Hawkeyes!!

[Riddler]

110. I look forward to the day when this piece of garbage and the rest of this disgusting administration

are either in jail or afraid to even show their miserable faces in public for fear of being attacked. Why anyone would pay this scum bag a nickel, let alone $40,000, to have him talk is beyond me. I hope he has to use every penny of that $40,000 and hundreds of times that amount for legal fees.

[Xenotime]

111. Why did the university allow that trator to speak?

[Senator]

112. For Future Tauntings: "It's The Election Theft"

Rove doesn't really take responsibility for the war or the torture or the illegal spying. That stuff's above his pay grade -- part of cheney's paranoid global domination fantasies.

The way to really get his goat is with the election thefts. That's what he always seems to bring up himself in his limited public statements over the years -- attempting to dismiss it.

He knows full well that he was caught both times and that no one considers him a "boy genius" anymore because of it.

If you get the chance, "Election Thief!" is what makes his blood boil.

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[liberal1973]

114. Yep rove is corrupt

They should have shouted traitor.

[pjt7]

115. Iowa is a bunch of suckers to pay

that hood-winker $40,000. Makes me think that if Hitler was around people would pay to hear him talk, rather than shoot him.

I must be living in an alternate universe

[Enthusiast]

117. I am very disappointed........

I am very disappointed that no one in the audience shouted "Fascist pig!"

[Peace Patriot]

123. Go, Hawkeyes!

I went to school there, you know, and I never have believed the disinformation that Iowa was a Bushite state. It just ain't so. Iowans are the most progressive people on earth! It's gotta be "trade secret" vote counting (Diebold & co.)

It doesn't surprise me in the least that, if you put 1,000 Iowans in a room with Karl Rove, insurrection occurs. These rebels are MAINSTREAM Iowa. Believe me.

[Tippy]

125. Makes me proud these people had the guts to stand up for Demmocracy n/t