Being Karl
August 19th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Rove made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows today, a few days after he announced he’s leaving the White House at the end of the month. He told Face the Nation’s Bob Schieffer that he had been ordered to appear on the shows. Wonder why?
Was it the President: “Turd Blossom, every minute they are talking bad about you, they’re not talking bad about me.”
Or was it Chief of Staff Josh Bolton: “If they blame you for all our mistakes going out, it might give us a clean slate going forward.”
But the best line of the morning may have come from Matthew Cooper formally of Time Magazine in the reporter round-table after the interview. Cooper had just busted Rove for misleading guest host David Gregory in the previous segment by insisting he would never have revealed Valerie Plame’s identity as a CIA covert agent. A slightly exasperated Gregory wanted to know why Rove refused to apologize to Plame.
“Karl Rove never apologizes,” Cooper said. “That’s not what he does.”
As the economy and the infrastructure of our nation teeter, corruption and incompetence rein supreme in the government, and Iraq experiences ever-more horrifying atrocities of which the death and maiming of young Americans is but one part, what do you suppose it would take to make Karl Rove apologize?
August 20th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
A gun.
/but it wouldn’t be sincere.