Ken Mehlman: "Karl Rove is friends with lots of different people"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

...On "Meet The Press," Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Manager Ken Mehlman denies knowing Robert Perry, and Tim Russert replies:

MR. RUSSERT: Karl Rove does. He's acknowledged it.

MR. MEHLMAN: I think he's a friend of Karl Rove's. He's someone who I think they haven't spoken to in a long time. Karl Rove is friends with lots of different people. He's friends with Jim Johnson. Does that mean he was responsible for the choice of John Edwards for vice president?

MR. RUSSERT: But will Mr. Rove pick up the phone, call Robert Perry and say, "Stop giving this group money. Pull those commercials down"?

MR. MEHLMAN: We have from the beginning said we believe that these commercials, the commercials of all these 527s--remember, Tim, there's $500,000 behind this new ad. There have been $63 million of these ads run against this president with all kinds of outrageous charges. We've said from the beginning we think these ads are wrong, we think these ads are contrary to the BICRA law. We've called for them to be pulled down. And it is somewhat ironic that the Kerry campaign, after months of benefiting from these ads, after not joining us on this call, now suddenly today are all of a sudden raising this issue.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5772535/

...so Rove "hasn't spoken to Perry in a long time" in the same way that Bush "met Ken Lay once, a long time ago?"

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. Dick Cheney Looks Like A Cross Between An Undertaker And The Banker Who

Foreclosed on Granny's House...

[cynatnite]

2. It always breaks my heart to see those empty boots n/t

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. It breaks Bush's heart so much he's been unable to attend a single funeral

[Malva Zebrina]

7. that graphic made me

:cry:

[DemMother]

3. What outrageous charges against Bush?

I think most of those ads have been issue ads. Are they lumping criticism of the Bush administration in with personal smears? And why doesn't the idiot press ask them--what ads??? What charges??? Why doesn't the idiot press do some research and press them on this point!

[sallyseven]

4. They are afraid to.

[DrFunkenstein]

6. Same Argument With Chalabi And Ken Lay

Sure Ken Lay gave to Democrats, too. Can we get a little more, you know, specific?