ROVE: "Bloggers Are Nutty, Vitriolic, Angry Kooks"

[kpete]

Rove Decries ‘Nutty’ ‘Vitriolic’ Bloggers Who Spew ‘Bad Words’

Yesterday, ThinkProgress attended a Yahoo-sponsored Citizen 2.0 event in Washington, DC, at which Karl Rove discussed the intersection of politics and the Internet. Rove lamented the loss of civility in politics on the web, but then proceeded to use his speech as a partisan bashing of the netroots. According to Rove, bloggers are “nutty,” “vitriolic,” and “kooks.” The Washington Times reported on his remarks:

“The Web has given angry and vitriolic people more of a voice in public discourse,” said Mr. Rove, who served as one of President Bush’s top strategists until he resigned this past summer, and is a noted technology nut.

“People in the past who have been on the nutty fringe of political life, who were more or less voiceless, have now been given an inexpensive and easily accessible soapbox, a blog,” Mr. Rove said during a speech about politics and the Web at the Willard InterContinental, a hotel just blocks from his former place of employment.

“I’m a fan of many blogs. I visit them frequently and I learn a lot from them,” Mr. Rove said. “But there also blogs written by angry kooks.”

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/09/rove-bloggers/

[WinkyDink]

1. Yeah, too bad about that First Amendment thing.

[uberblonde]

2. Clearly, he only reads right-wing blogs.

We're the nice ones!

[begin_within]

3. Takes one to know one.

[blogslut]

4. Karl who?

:)

[deminks]

22. Karl, I just did a yahoo search, and the only ones writing about you are

left wing blogs! Imagine that. Ok, there is one article about how you are gonna be in trouble if you don't answer your subpeona to Congress, but what the hey.

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search;_ylt=A0WTTktBnTRHGcMAGRnQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTA4Mm84YjJyBHNlYwNzb3J0?ei=UTF-8&p=KARL+ROVE&c=&datesort=1&fr=

[Aviation Pro]

5. Here's some vitriol for you....

...you flabby, traitorous, rhymes-with-sockcucker, soon-to-be-Bubba's-butt-boy-in-some-hellhole-of-a-prison, asswipe, shitstain motherfucker.

There, I feel better now.

[Theres-a]

6. Nice.

Anyone who doesn't agree with him is an angry kook,I assure you. W and Darth ,on the other hand are spiritual giants with insights and moral authority,right?

Assclown.

[KingFlorez]

7. He's describing all the Republican blogs

[countingbluecars]

8. Yeah, because he can't control

them like he did/does the mainstream media.

[Peregrine Took]

27. Exactly!

[Moochy]

9. Phone call for rove

wyldwolf called and he wants his anti-netroots talking points back.

[Binka]

26. LOL. Is WW Still Here Or Did They Finally Ban His Ass?

:hi:

[whistle]

10. Gee, that coming from a man who is nutty, vitriolic, angry and totally dishonest

[havocmom]

11. Some people create situations then complain about the results

Rove must be having a bout with OJ Simpson/Ralph Nader Syndrome; he isn't getting the attention he needs.

If he craves attention, send a Grand Jury his way. "Papers? We'll show you PAPERS!"

[tsuki]

12. There are also Presidents advised by angry and vitriolic people,

the nutty fringe of political life, the NeoCon. Do you recognize anyone Karl?

[Mandate My Ass]

13. People on the nutty fringe of political life are installed in the White House

Hopefully they'll all be doing time for their crimes soon, including Rover.

[LTR]

14. Yeah, some people become so vindictive when they don't hold all the power

If it wasn't for nutty, vitriolic, angry kooks like him, there would be less need for bloggers.

Cry me a river, Karl.

:eyes:

[Ganja Ninja]

15. Karl Rove is a treasonous prick that ought to be ...

tarred and feathered and hung from a lamp post.

Is that vitriolic enough for you Karl?

[Uncle Joe]

16. According to this Kos diary,

he's also attacking the anonymity of the Internet. I believe this is because he and the mega powerful that back him prefer to attack the messengers not the message.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/11/9/05834/0171

"But it got better ,truly. Perhaps it was when he decried the tone that our debates are now taking. Oh yes, the tone of the internets is such that it is helping to further the divide in this country. Several of us nearly fell out of our chairs at that.

Then it got surreal.

Karl Rove is angry that the internet is a place where people can post anonymously. He feels it hurts our democracy to have people say things but not put their names to them. The anonymity gives people a way to say things but not take responsibility for them.

Yes. Mr. Out-the-CIA-Agent-To-Douchebag-Of-Liberty-Novakula is upset because the internet allows for anonymity."

[zbdent]

17. yeah, they're irrelevent ... like the guy in his underwear in his Mommy's basement

who said that he could forge the Bush National Guard papers ...

[Zorra]

18. Angry kooks? Oh, yeah...freerepublic. Why, Karl, those angry kooks

are your greatest supporters.

If it weren't for those angry kooks, you'd be chasing ambulances in south El Paso instead of getting paid big corporate bucks to help destroy the United States.

[riverdeep]

19. This guy is like a textbook case of 'projection'.

Accuse your enemy of your own faults. That's his strategy, right there.

But this-

"Rove lamented the loss of civility in politics on the web"



:rofl:

[distantearlywarning]

20. Pot, meet kettle. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

21. What a classic example of Freudian projection!

[rocktivity]

23. Karl Rove calling someone a vitrolic angry kook

is like Hugh Hefner calling someone a pimp.

:eyes:
rocknation

[louis-t]

24. Damn right we're angy.

He finally gets it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. This is Straussian thought

and the mistrust of the rabble is here for all to see

[bdamomma]

28. hey karl, stop talking about yourself huh?

[helderheid]

29. Yes, and the internet is a fad that will pass. n/t

[Javaman]

30. Ironic statement by rover boy...

“I’m a fan of many blogs. I visit them frequently and I learn a lot from them,” Mr. Rove said. “But there also blogs written by angry kooks.”

So he likes learning from kooks?

cough cough...bullshit...cough cough.

he knows the blogs have his dick on a line.

[LeftHander]

31. Karl Rove ATE MY blog!

I found it's skin hanging in his garage....