Karl Rove: I did not pull dirty tricks

[Botany]

Source: MSNBC

Karl Rove said his reputation as a down-and-dirty political campaigner is undeserved. Tricks attributed to him were
either media distortions or the work of others, he told TODAY’s Matt Lauer during an interview Monday on TODAY.

Rove specifically said he had nothing to do with the smear tactics used against Sen. John McCain in South Carolina
during the 2000 Republican presidential primary campaign.

snip

One of the more notorious dirty tricks of which Rove is accused is the so-called “push-pull poll” conducted in South Carolina
during the 2000 primaries, when George W. Bush and John McCain were vying for the Republican presidential nomination. The
poll suggested that McCain, who has an adopted daughter from Bangladesh, had fathered an illegitimate child with a black woman.

snip

“I thought John McCain would seize it for what it was, which was an enormous opportunity to give an insight into who he and his
wife are because Cindy McCain adopted a child from an orphanage in Bangladesh,” Rove told Lauer. “The story of this is an incredible
tale of love and compassion. But rather than doing that, John McCain said, ‘I’m a victim,’ and was angry and complained about it and
pointed the finger at Bush when he had no evidence whatsoever.”

Read more: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35728837/ns/today-today_people/

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Why isn't this man in prison?

Video if you can stand it @ the link.



So it was John McCain's fault that he didn't take advantage of the platform that
Rove gave him to address the rumors of his illegitimate black baby? Who knew?

one one more great quote

And Cindy McCain, the senator’s wife, said she would not stab Rove in the back if
he walked by her. “I would stab him in the front,” she reportedly said.

[Solly Mack]

1. Yeah...and I don't breathe in oxygen either.

[happygoluckytoyou]

40. i guess he was sitting in his filth and decided it was time to REWRITE history

[kenny blankenship]

2. They made you promise to be good, eh? No "wetwork"?

No solving problems the old fashioned way?

[sarge43]

3. No, he probably didn't leave a horse's head in anyone's bed.

Otherwise, he's a lying sack with a mountain of dirt under his fingernails.

[ananda]

4. ROFL

That was funny.

[Vinnie From Indy]

5. He's right!

One can hardly call murder and the subversion of democracy a "trick". A more apt definition would be an "orgy of evil". The word "trick" is merely the friendly remarketing of Karl Rove delivered by our highly corrupt mainstream media. Each and every network that allows this piece of shit to lie with impunity on air deserves all the scorn and ridicule that can be mustered by the general public. If a miracle occurs and Rove is actually exposed and prosecuted for his crimes, I hope folks are reminded of the on air blowjob Matt Lauer gave Karl Rove.

[Botany]

15. The media knows bush stole 2 elections and Karl Rove is a shit but ...

..... they will not say a God Damn thing about it. They also know that the phone
# for the Swift Boat Vets for Truth rang in the offices of Creative Response Concepts,
of Arlington, VA the same company that is behind the teabaggers against health
care reform, the same company the was on Rove's speed dial, and the same company
that hires former media people so they can specialize in "planting stories in the news
cycle using non-traditional methods.

[Bitwit1234]

27. Correct..he didn't pull dirty tricks...HE IS THE DIRTY TRICK.

[karynnj]

6. What an opportunity! Just what every campaign wants - the candidate denying his adopted child was

his illegitimate kid.

Does this mean that he thinks he gave Senator Kerry a chance to more thoroughly defend that he was a decorated war hero, who saved a man and used his enormous problem solving skills to keep his men as safe as he could?

In both cases, the truth is, the goal was never to convince the majority of people of the lies, but to keep those campaigns from getting their message out on the real issues while they dealt with the lies and because they did, especially in Kerry's case, allow people to disbelieve the official record - when doing so fit their world view where being a strong, honorable hero was incompatible with being a MA liberal - even though it was the truth.

[kenfrequed]

7. What a lying sack of crap.

Does he actually believe the garbage he peddles? I honestly wish the news channels and pundit shows would treat me as the disgusting sleaze merchant that he is.

[ObamaismyPresident]

8. Karl Rove=idiot

I can't stand the right wingers nut jobs. Karl Rove is an idiot, yet the stupid republicans praise him as genius. Get a life, republirats.

[WhiteTara]

20. Karl Rove=Criminal

he is vicious and nasty on his good days and the rest of the time he is just a shit.

[ObamaismyPresident]

41. True.

Surprising he ain't in jail....

[JackRiddler]

55. Karl Rove = Idiot and Criminal!

Amazing! And all for just 19.95! But wait, there's more!

[liberal N proud]

9. Depends on your definition of a dirty trick

For the criminals that ran the bu$h regime, they were just everyday business practice.

[opihimoimoi]

10. The entire GOP has been downgraded thanks to ROVE...He gave us BUSH KNOWING W WAS INEPT

COUNTRY FIRST Much Rove?

Essentially the FALL of the once mighty GOP can be placed to him...

They Lost 2 running elections...and he is trying to change the scores.

Its all LOCKER ROOM chatter...

[Roland99]

11. Yeah, and Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Genghis Kahn were all kind, gentle people.

[tclambert]

44. Genghis Khan tells Matt Lauer he wasn't really that into pillaging.

[MineralMan]

12. Rove - You ARE a dirty trick.

[DCKit]

25. "Teh Gay" in DC (those who know him) call him "Miss Piggy"

I don't even want to know why, but it does sound kinda' dirty.

[GoCubsGo]

13. Yeah, and I'm the Queen of Sheba.

When I saw that SOB was going to be on, I immediately changed the channel. I'm not at all surprised that it was, as Vinnie from Indy put it, an "on the air blow job" by Mutt Lauer. In fact, that's what I expected.

I'm not a huge Cindy McCain fan, but after reading that quote, she just elevated herself a notch in my book.

[Chipper Chat]

14. "Karl Rove did not pull any dirty tricks."

Larry Craig did not solicit. He was merely practicing for an audition with the Boise Civic Theatre's upcoming performance of 'George M.'
*
Wm Jefferson did not hide money in his freezer. He was merely storing it for the local Bingo Society until they decided where to invest it.
*
James O'keefe wasn't trying to bug Mary Landrieu. He was merely conducting a survey on what brands of ciggyrette her office staff smoked. Harmless.........

[tclambert]

45. Mario Andretti says he didn't like to drive fast.

[tclambert]

46. Edmund Hillary says he's afraid of heights.

[BulletproofLandshark]

16. Everything that comes out of this fucker's mouth is a lie.

If he told me the sky was blue, I'd run out and check to make sure. He's Goebbels minus the Kristallnacht.

[Botany]

21. He's Goebbels minus the Kristallnacht

Well there is that little shock and awe thing.

[jmowreader]

29. Darrell Worley is going to kick your ass, you know that

If you don't remember that on September 10, 2001, George W. Bush was about to be impeached by his own party for ineptitude, and on September 12 he was the greatest leader in the history of the world thanks to the American Kristallnacht, you really HAVE forgotten.

Read this: http://www.nps.gov/flni/upload/Design%20presentatioN2.pdf as they are attempting to build a 2200-acre memorial to Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. As there are only 640 acres in a square mile, the government plans to devote nearly 3.5 square miles to this memorial. Come on: set aside 100 acres next to Interstate 70, put a soaring tower and a visitor center there, use the rest for parking, and put a nice plaque at the actual crash site.

[Atman]

17. "Why isn't this man in prison? "

Why is this man given air time to advance his crap? In all but the most fucked up third world dictatorships, Rove and Bush and Cheney would be disgraced and outcast. In OUR fucked up system, they're given credence and treated as celebrities and lauded for their insight.

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[hankthecrank]

18. what can someone say after such a lie no words

karl you would make a good used car salesman


that rust hole, just wanted to give you some practice with body work besides it improves the airflow it will save you gas.

sure it doesn't have an engine you didn't want to spend money on gas. Look how your hurting the oil company.

[zogofzorkon]

19. He sure pulled on something nt

[lunatica]

22. Doth he protest too much?

The one thing that kept Karl Rove secure was that he never defended himself and kept that cherubic smile pasted on his face. Now he's being defensive and that shows he's vulnerable to criticism or that he's worried.

I can only hope he's worried about something big that will affect his future.

[tularetom]

23. It's not Rove's fault that he gets all this exposure

Of course he is going to push for appearances on all the networks. It's how he can sell books.

Why do they let him on their shows? They know he's going to lie.

How low have our news media sunk? How much lower can they go?

[RaleighNCDUer]

24. "I am not a liar," he lied. nt

[Xenotime]

26. Bullshit. He wrote the book.

[Botany]

31. yes he did

inviting homeless and drunks to his opponents fund
raiser w/ stolen letterhead that promised free beer
and food

bugging his candidate's own office and then calling
a press conference and blaming "the other guy"

putting fliers under the window shield wipers of
church goers on Sunday before election in Texas
calling Ann Richards a lesbian alcoholic

getting an amazingly strong vote among the black
voters in St. Louis that put John Ashcroft over the
top in the Missouri Governor's race.

Making Dan Rather the problem instead of W's going
AWOL to avoid a piss test in the military

removing black voters from the rolls in Florida
and Ohio to make the election close enough to "flip"

Pushing that it was the State and Locals fault for
the poor response to Katrina even though the Governor
of Louisiana has declared the area a disaster 2 days
prior to the storm hitting which made the response
federalized

I could go on and on

[mbperrin]

28. I hope he gets everything he deserves.

Soon.

[jmowreader]

30. What's Karl's angle?

Karl Rove has done shit Donald Segretti wouldn't have tried, and Segretti supposedly invented ratfucking. The question is, why is Rove suddenly attempting to get away from his past? I think it's most likely that he spent nine years of his life championing a president who's going to publish his memoirs as a pop-up book, and he's embarrassed by the knowledge.

[No Elephants]

51. Segretti was a prince compared to Atwater and Rove.

[bleever]

32. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

Probably just calling Domino's for an election night snack.

[Botany]

35. that nasty 1 out of 4 voters in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), OH

or 250,000 voters that were removed from the rolls prior to the
2004 election ..... or about double W's "margin of victory" in Ohio.

BTW I bet you a dinner w/ an EDV that Karl is on the phone
w/ Michael Connelly and his magic computers in OH and TN.

Karl Rove on why the results didn't match the exit polls:

I'm not just speaking about the public polls, but the private ones" ... Karl Rove

Obama and A.G. Holder let Rove and company walk at their own risk.

[daggahead]

33. Do you think ...

Rove would be willing to say that under oath?

"On the advice of my attorney, I will plead the 5th."

[AlbertCat]

34. See... you can believe EVERYTHING Rove tells you these days.

[eleny]

36. Let me guess - During the interview his lips were moving. Right?

[SlingBlade]

37. Look'in Backwards I'd call 'em a Lying War Criminal

But I'm not sposed to look backwards, Am I ?

[mlevans]

38. Who woulda thunk it? He actually cares what people think of him.

Fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-de-dum
Tell a better story so they don't think you're a bum
Revise a better version and the world is gonna come
Poor old Karl needs to get him some

Fiddle-de-dum, fiddle-de-dee
A new coat of paint is gonna set you free
If you don't like what the people see
Just try some revisionist history

[DebbieCDC]

39. Project much turd blossom?

:puke:

[panzerfaust]

42. Well. Glad to have that cleared up.

[Thor_MN]

43. As if. Turd Blossom's too high up the food chain to do actual work.

He hired all that shit out.

[Uncle Joe]

47. If you believe that, pack up all your precious metals; silver, gold, platinum

and mail it off in "Uncle Joe's Gold Envelope" Nashville, TN.

Thanks for the thread, Botany.

[troubledamerican]

48. Lucifer said the same thing.

[TroglodyteScholar]

49. Richard Nxon: I am not a crook. n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

50. ... with that young woman.

Oops, sorry, wrong scandal. That one *deserved* a years-long, multimillion dollar investigation.

[No Elephants]

52. Gee, I expected him to say he was guilty as charged and then some.

[warm regards]

53. How else can you win?

[katty]

54. o Karl is on his 'comeback tour'--sorry, try dancing w/the stars

[Bozita]

56. "Why We Went In: Version 10.0" by P.J. Crowley | March 19, 2004 - dug up from the ol' memory hole

Why We Went In: Version 10.0
By P.J. Crowley | March 19, 2004

In the year since the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has repeatedly shifted its justification for going to war and constantly changed its story on intelligence, the United Nations, reconstruction, political transition and the cost to the American taxpayer. More than anything, the administration's war in Iraq resembles a software program that, at first, works brilliantly, but then catches the user in a cycle of "fatal error" messages.

Here then, in Silicon Valley terms, is a review of the Bush administration's year in Iraq:

Version 1.0 - Saddam Hussein is an imminent threat

Version 1.01 - Saddam Hussein is a gathering threat

Version 1.02 - Saddam Hussein poses a real and dangerous threat

Version 1.1 - The smoking gun will be a mushroom cloud

Version 1.2 - We can't afford to wait

Version 1.3 - We never said imminent

Version 1.3.1 - OK, maybe we did say it once or twice

Version 1.4 - We should have been more precise

Version 2.1 - Saddam has weapons of mass destruction

Version 2.2 - Saddam has nuclear weapons

Version 2.3 - Saddam has biological agents he's never accounted for

Version 2.3.1 - The trailers are mobile labs for producing chemical weapons

Version 2.3.2 - Unmanned aircraft are ready to spread Saddam's biological weapons

Version 2.4 - Saddam's going to make more of all these weapons

Version 2.5 - We all know where the weapons are

Version 2.5.1 - Well, Saddam has used weapons of mass destruction

Version 2.5.2 - Iraq is a big country. We'll find the weapons eventually.

Version 2.5.3 - Saddam had weapons of mass destruction programs

Version 2.5.4 - Saddam had "weapons of mass destruction program related activities"

Version 2.5.5 - David Kay? Who's David Kay?

Version 2.6 - It's not about misleading the American people - Saddam Hussein is gone and that's the most important thing

Version 3.0 - We based our statements on our available intelligence

Version 3.1 - Saddam tried to buy uranium ore in Niger

Version 3.1.2 - Well, that was what the British told us

Version 3.1.3 - Did we tell you about Joe Wilson's wife?

more...

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/03/b38989.html/index.html

[defendandprotect]

57. My BS meter won't allow my waching the video . ..

Can't stand anything Rovian . . . !!!

[Jack Rabbit]

58. Rover, if you expect me to believe that, then . . .

I expect you to show some interest in some beachfront property by the Sea of Tranquility that I can offer you at reasonable prices.

[Zoeisright]

59. Every time you lie, Rove, Reagan gets another log added to his fire in hell.

What a piece of lying shit scum.

[uberblonde]

60. Lying sociopath.

Respectable people should spit on the ground when he goes past.

[wordpix]

61. this ass should be hauled up to Congress to answer some q's & then let due process begin

like his role in the Plame matter - he wasn't involved in that, right? Fitzgerald's investigation was all wrong, right?