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In reply to the discussion: Context and the Assange case. [View all]struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)repeat the claims loudly and often
Wolf's bit about the Assange case was discussed here at DU in some detail when she wrote it three years ago. Many of us will agree that Karl Rove is a foul bucket of slime, that anyone who plays with him acquires a certain stench, and that he visited Sweden (beginning in 2008) to help the conservatives with the then-upcoming 2010 elections there. Rove has the reputation of being a politically-talented bucket of slime, who happens to share the general hatred the US rightwing feels towards Swedish liberalism, and it's reasonable to think Rove went to Sweden with the aim of earning big bucks telling Swedish conservatives how to poke Swedish liberals in the eye with a sharp stick. Assange, on the other hand, visited Sweden in early 2010, intending to explore the possibility of moving the Wikileaks servers there and hoping to become a permanent resident. IMO Rove's political talents do not include forecasting Assange's future travels. The claim, that Karl Rove is somehow involved in the Assange story, is yet more evidence of some mental dysfunction, which attempts to squish every possible fact together into a grandiose paranoid narrative