WTF ALERT: Rove says McCain ads gone too far - then compares using a keyboard to doing jumping jacks

[jefferson_dem]

Rove: McCain ads gone too far

Karl Rove said this morning that John McCain's attacks against Barack Obama have stretched the truth.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Rove said McCain had "gone one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent-truth test.”

McCain has come in for scathing criticism from many in the media and independent fact-check organizations for his recent hard-edged campaign tactics. But few Republicans, and none as prominent as Rove, have criticized McCain.

The former political adviser to President Bush didn't confine his critique to McCain, though.

"Both campaigns are making a mistake, and that is they are taking whatever their attacks are and going one step too far," he said. "They don't need to attack each other in this way."

On a new Obama ad released late last week, Rove said it was a fair point to call McCain "a longtime Washington insider.”

“But they then say he doesn't …send e-mail. Well, this is because his war injuries keep him from being able to use a keyboard. He can't type. You know, it's like saying he can't do jumping jacks."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/Rove_McCain_ads_gone_too_far.html

[Flabbergasted]

1. Damage Control. They're excellent at it. nt

[ensho]

11. (an aside - I love the dog)

nt

[buff2]

2. They must be getting nervous.

:smoke:

[msongs]

3. mccain can commit adultery with thos injured body parts tho lol nt

[Ioo]

4. LIAR!!!! I RUN A SITE FOR DISABLED GAMERS - I know quads that play WOW

This is total BS, and I am am expert on disabled folks using the PC. I am a speaker about it at conferences

http://ablegamers.com

If he wanted to use the computer he could...

[lonestarnot]

8. No shit! They lie like motherfuckers that they are! Going to fuck a whole bunch more mothers out

of their kids.

[Oak2004]

9. Yeah -- I'm disabled with an arthritic condition and my good friend is "locked in"

intermittently with a movement disorder. She has a switch that lets her use brain waves to operate a computer. While the argument has been made that McCain is brain dead, I don't believe the argument was meant to be taken literally.

If we can be internet junkies, I'll betcha McCain can use a computer.

[NotThisTime]

5. WTH is going on? Why the hell is Fox news all of a sudden saying at least SOMETHING in Obama's favor

once in a while? It makes no sense.... meanwhile MSNBC is tamping down on anything that is pro Obama

[votetastic]

6. Of course what Rove really means

is that McCain can't touch-type.. he's more of a hunter and pecker.

[niceypoo]

7. Rove should know, he directed them...

He is desperate to stay out of prison. The McCain/Rove campaign has way overplayed their hand and the media is calling them on it, for once.

[ensho]

10. a lot of people are NOT good at Jumping Jacks - its not easy

so comparing that to using a pc keyboard which is EASY is silly.

(wonder how the Jumping Jacks game came to his mind? strange.)

[GoesTo11]

12. Rove is trying to distance himself from his own strategy

so they can take cheap shots and then say they didn't.

Obviously don't take his words at face value.

[elkston]

13. Seems like some kind of trick (eom)

[Enrique]

14. I believe Karl Rove is an objective political analyst

and I believe Fox News is a real news network. And I'm a total idiot.

[Zuiderelle]

15. LOL! Nice run around to the flank with "pity him, he can't type" WTF?

LOL! What the hell do we want with a president who cannot send an email, and doesn't even bother to explore the tremendous resources at his disposal that would allow him to do anything computer/communication related without his hands that anyone who can type can do.

All in the guise of CRITICIZING him for going "one step too far."

1. Say McCain went a step too far.
2. Say Obama also went a step too far.
3. Imply that Obama's step was worse, since McCain cannot type.

:wtf:

[MrScorpio]

16. This is good, this is really good.

I, for one, hopes that John McCain stays the course!