The Rove M.O.

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From Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo

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Now we can see in full view what we've seen again and again in recent years, the favored tactic: terror by grand moral inversion, the lie so total and audacious that it almost knocks opponents off their feet.

John Kerry decorated war hero? No, coward and showboat.

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Wilson, a whistleblower administration officials were trying to punish? A whistleblower calling out White House manipulated intelligence during the lead-up to war?

Not at all. Rove was the whistleblower trying to knock down a campaign of disinformation from Joe Wilson. The audacity of it is enough to knock some people off their feet. Like I said, terror by grand moral inversion.

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The two words capture it: ferocity and nihilism, feeding off each other.

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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_07_10.php#006094

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