Liberal Americans choke on their pretzels as Karl Rove rewrites history

[Judi Lynn]

Liberal Americans choke on their pretzels as Karl Rove rewrites history
It has been fun watching the man known as 'Bush's brain' squirm on the TV talkshows as he tries to sell his self-serving memoir
Paul Harris in New York
The Observer, Sunday 14 March 2010

For Karl Rove's legions of liberal detractors – who did not manage to lay a hand on him while he was in power – it has been a case of too little, too late.

But watching the man dubbed "Bush's brain" take to the media circuit to flog his self-serving memoir Courage and Consequence has at last provided a tiny bit of satisfying blood sport at Rove's expense. It has not been a pretty sight and is one that Rove, no doubt, will blame on the natural liberal tendencies of America's media classes. Yet it has been fun watching a man whose name became a byword for brutal, dirty politics go cap in hand around the talk shows and get a thorough roasting.

Leading the charge was normally genial daytime TV host Matt Lauer, who laid into Rove over everything from the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to Hurricane Katrina to his role in the leak of the identity of CIA spy Valerie Plame. "Some are saying this is 500 pages of you rewriting history," Lauer said. He was wrong. It's 608 pages.

The book stands accused of being a towering monument to self-denial of what are now seen as self-evident truths. Despite millions of words of newsprint, endless government probes in numerous countries and hours upon hours of TV reports proving the opposite, Rove stands by the idea that President George W Bush invaded Iraq reluctantly. He also denies Bush condoned torture. "He did just the opposite," Rove wrote.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/14/karl-rove-american-liberals-choke

[grasswire]

1. weird

"No one tore into Rove better than Dana Milbank, the Washington Post's frequently scathing political sketch writer. "What he divulges nearly made me choke on a pretzel," she said"

Dana Milbank is not a she.

[BlueMTexpat]

3. A skeleton in Milbank's closet, perhaps? LOL eom

[BlueMTexpat]

2. I am surprised that Paul Harris,

whose observations are generally quite astute, would write any sentence that contains these words: " ... natural liberal tendencies of America's media classes ...". Perhaps that was an edit?

If such tendencies exist in the MSM, they are not in evidence.

:shrug:

But Rove et al will certainly use them as an excuse. Harris got that right.

[cornermouse]

4. Ugly, evil, vicious little man.

I hope all that evil gives him a heart attack.