Archive for the 'Rove' Category

Rove Planning To ‘name names’ Of Bush Haters In His New Book–THINK PROGRESS headline, Pearl Harbor Day

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

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This promises to be the singled-spaced equivalent to Actuarial Bible.

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Karl Rove is reportedly one of the key architects overseeing the “Bush legacy project,” predicting that the President will be remembered as a “far-sighted leader.” In a new interview with Cox News, Rove rails against all the people in America who never “accepted the legitimacy […]

I’ve only found four productions, but Pop Music, Broadway, Film and Television each contributed to the project.

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

After 9/11, Rove pressured the entertainment industry ‘to produce propaganda.’»

The New York Times reports today that shortly after 9/11, the White House met several times with “a delegation of high-level media executives, including the heads of every major studio,” in order to discuss how “the entertainment industry could play a part in improving the image […]

I didn’t know John S. McCain III was a reader.

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

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Images: (book) Harper-Collins via readingwith2s.wordpress.com; (rove) via observer.com; (mac) AP Photo via a.abcnews.com

Rove ‘Threatened’ GOP High-Tech Guru, AG Asked for Protection, Immunity: Attorney–headline in BRAD BLOG, 7/24/2008

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Here is the copy of email found in Brad Blog…

Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:51 AM
To: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
Subject: Report of Rove threats against witness Michael ConnellDear Attorney General Mukasey:We have been confidentially informed by a source we believe to be credible that Karl Rove has threatened Michael Connell, a principal witness we have identified in our […]

Some Realtors Riled Up Over Rove Speech–headline; The Daily News (Galveston County, TX)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Did I not hear somewhere that if you take a dashboard-size statue of Karl and bury it upside-down in your home’s sanitary sewer or septic system, you’ll be assured of unloading the property before the next news cycle?

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By Laura Elder
Published July 2, 2008
When political strategist Karl Rove speaks, a lot of people listen. Some heckle […]

SHINE ON, HARVEST BOOM

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

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Houston Chronicle
“We Should Not Let Them Back into Polite Society” - Richard Clarke on GWB and His Cronies
Posted 6/6/2008 8:40 AM CDT
On Countdown last night, Keith went after GWB and his administration over the new Phase 2 Report on Iraq intelligence issued yesterday under chairman Jay Rockefeller. The conclusions reached by this report were […]

Oh, that Karl!!

Monday, February 25th, 2008

60 Minutes Report On Rove’s Dirty Politics
Think Progress
February 25, 2008
Last night, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired its long-awaited report on Alabama’s incarcerated former governor Don Siegelman, featuring allegations that Karl Rove personally told a Republican operative in the state to find evidence that Siegelman was cheating on his wife.
Siegelman, a Democrat, was convicted in 2006 for […]

ARLEN = SUNDAY MORNING ANGER + MIDWEEK CAPITULATION

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Specter blocks contempt vote.
Think Progress
Following an objection by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), a vote has been postponed on “contempt resolutions against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential political guru Karl Rove for failing to respond to subpoenas” regarding the U.S. attorney scandal. Specter, who asked Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) for a […]

Kute Karl was only practicing for his role as Keeper of the Keys at W’s library.

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Think Progress had this story from the Morning Joe program on MSNBC…
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This morning, former White House chief of staff at the time, Andrew Card, appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and completely discredited Rove’s argument:
SCARBOROUGH: We have to start with something that we all are talking about a couple of days ago where Karl Rove […]

‘Rove: “Congress Pushed Bush to War in Iraq Prematurely”‘

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

I switch off the television when Tom Cruise, Roger Clemens,
any high school football coach or
Karl Rove begins to speak.
It’s a survival mechanism. 
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Paul Abrams
Huffington Post
Rove: “Congress Pushed Bush to War in Iraq Prematurely”
Posted November 25, 2007 | 08:56 PM (EST)
You are not going to believe this, well, actually you will… According to Karl Rove (on Charlie […]