"I saw his big, bald head in the back seat, and I knew I had my target" (Man Who Mooned Rove Speaks)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Sep 4 2007 3:48 PM EDT
Man Who Mooned Karl Rove Speaks: 'It Was A Very Intimate Moment'
'I saw his big, bald head in the back seat, and I knew I had my target,' says American University student Joel Gardner.

By Michelle Rabinowitz

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1568849/20070904/id_0.jhtml

A Karl Rove-less White House went back to work on Tuesday (September 4), but although the man referred to by many as "Bush's Brain" may be gone, his presence is still felt by six American University students who spent Labor Day in a Washington, D.C., police station.

The students turned themselves in Monday after warrants were issued for their arrests, stemming from an April 3 protest on the university's D.C. campus; each was released on $100 bond. While none of the students were arrested at the time of the protest (no D.C. police were on campus at the time), with the new school year beginning, they face misdemeanor charges of crossing a police line and disorderly conduct. All six are due in district court on Wednesday (and are expected to agree to a $100 fine for a single charge of crossing a police line), which should mark the end of this unusual legal escapade.

"The letter I got from American University said I was in trouble for 'exposing my buttocks,' " Joel Gardner, 20, told MTV News. "I mooned Karl Rove." According to The Washington Post, the other five students facing charges in the matter are Elizabeth Sanders, 20; Eugene Johnson, 19; James Worsdale, 20; Matthew McCoy, 21; and Michael Canning, 21. None of them exposed themselves to Rove, but some lay down in front of his car and others attempted to carry out a citizen's arrest as he left campus after a speech to the College Republicans five months ago.

"I really never thought it would come to this," said Gardner, who did not take part in the larger demonstration against Rove's presence on campus. "I got out of class and there was a protest. I knew Karl Rove was supposed to be on campus, so I figured that was it. I have sympathies toward what the protesters were saying, but I'm uninterested in party politics. So I just ran up there and saw this sedan. And then I saw his big, bald head in the back seat, and I knew I had my target. ... It was a very intimate moment between me and Karl Rove."



White House staff members hold up signs and cheer as Karl Rove, President Bush's deputy chief of staff, not pictured, leaves the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 31, 2007, on his last day at work. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

[Vickers]

1. Wow, look at the diversity in that crowd!!!

:eyes:

[YOY]

3. Hey Steve there is a Catholic! and Shirley there is a quarter Jewish!

and did I mention the cleaning staff? All minorities! That administration is dedicated to diversity!

Dammit the Bush Administration is dedicated to diversity!

[cdb]

4. Plenty of Diversity there!!

Look, theres some women, guys with glasses and some folks even have dark hair!!

[thereismore]

2. Republicans make me puke. They made me that way. nt

[Flabbergasted]

5. Well worth getting arrested for.