Opinion-Rove not likely to survive inquiry-Margaret Carlson

[Algorem]

Sunday, October 23, 2005

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/245478_carlson23.html

In Washington, you know you're in real trouble when the Media Stakeout occupies your front lawn like an invading army, sprouting panel trucks and satellite uplinks curbside and littering your landscape with candy wrappers and plastic cups.

The atmosphere was captured perfectly in the movie "The Birdcage," when a fictional senator, Gene Hackman, tried to escape reporters clamoring outside his house by climbing out a bedroom window. Greeted by popping flash bulbs, he turns and gives the V-sign, as if this was his usual means of exit and he was just thrilled by the attention.

Caught in that glare last week, Karl Rove took a different tack. Backing out of his driveway in a leafy Washington neighborhood on the day he would make his fourth appearance before the grand jury looking into the leaking of a CIA agent's identity, Rove flashed his high beams at the five pouncing television crews. He momentarily thwarted them. That he didn't react with Hackman's aplomb tells you a lot about the mental state of the usually unflappable Rove.

Rove is showing the strain of the two-year inquiry. If he hadn't been so preoccupied, he surely would have limited the damage from the encampment of Cindy Sheehan at Bush's Texas ranch and sent the president off on his Gulf Coast storm watch before pictures of dead bodies flooded the airwaves...

[knowbody0]

1. all this while the poor little piggy has to pass stones!

which they say are more painful than childbirth. boo hoo

[WhiteTara]

2. good article

:kick:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. hey, what he did to America without KY jelly - he deserves it back

in spades. it will take a generation to repair the damage.
and we can only hope that we will survive the damage.

[gumby]

4. Fuck Margaret Carlson.

She participated in the 2-year media war against Gore -- that helped put Bush into office -- because it was such 'fun' to attack Gore.

The Blood is on her hands. Big Time.

Even now, she uses lives like they are Her playthings.

"Rove is showing the strain of the two-year inquiry. If he hadn't been so preoccupied, he surely would have limited the damage from the encampment of Cindy Sheehan at Bush's Texas ranch and sent the president off on his Gulf Coast storm watch before pictures of dead bodies flooded the airwaves."

See, dead soldiers and dead bodies floating along the Gulf Coast are 'simply' PR problems according to the "liberal" Carlson.

With "liberals" like her, count me out of the "liberal" contingency.

[eleny]

5. I feel the same about Maureen Dowd

And told her so in an email some time ago. Nuts to all of them. The one good thing about these days is that some of these writers are at least spearing the administration where it's most corrupt. But I also have a long memory. If the Dems do get back into power in D.C., I plan on watching the pundits like a hawk on steroids.

[gumby]

6. Hey, hey...

Said the same thing about the nefarious MoDo here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5131231&mesg_id=5131533

(never tried this linkage stuff before, maybe it'll work)

[eleny]

9. Well said!

Thanks for the link. It worked just fine. It's been hard to keep up around here. I better hit the Greatest page first. :hi:

[Kahuna]

8. She didn't come to her senses about bush until that stupid book

she wrote gushing about how she and shrub grew up and made it to the white house :puke: made her look like an ass kissing idiot. I notice that after that embarrassing fiasco she began to remember her roots.

[eleny]

10. Well, she has her own personal hell to deal with

Her family is mostly Republican. This holiday season should be interesting for the lot of them.

[Cha]

7. Yeeaah! Cause bush can't think

of anything on his own. We have Joe Wilson And Valerie to thank for causing rove such distractions!