Somewhere in Texas, does a turd miss its blossom?
Talk about hypocrisy, last Sunday Karl Rove was on Fox News (where else?) whining because the Obama White House would dare snub a news outlet it considers partisan.
"The administration is making a mistake for itself," Rove continued. "But more importantly, it is demeaning the office of the president by taking the president and moving him from a person who wants to be talking to everybody and communicating through every available channel the same, if you oppose me, you question me, if you are too tough on me, by gosh, me and my people are not going to come on, we are going to penalize you. That is just wrong, fundamentally wrong."[..]
A lot of people, some Democrats, think it might not be wise for the WH to get involved in this little Fox News dust-up...I'm not one of them. I believe it's about danged time the WH stood up and fought back against this partisan propaganda machine.
That said, I now have to fall over laughing at the hilarious irony of Rove's whining.
Maybe he forgot that it was his hero GWBush who became the first president ever to refuse every single interview request from the New York Times...because he didn't like their coverage.
Funny...I don't remember Rove saying anything about this decision being "demeaning" to the presidency. Somehow I don't think Turdblossom (GWB's nickname for Rove) pleaded with the President about the benefits of "talking to everybody and communicating through every available channel."
And I don't remember Karl complaining that it was "fundamentally wrong" when the Bush White House went after NBC News last year...accusing the network of "deceptive editing and blurring the lines between news and opinion." Of course, several Fox News personalities thought it was just a dandy idea for all Republican officials to stop appearing on NBC News.
Yet, just the other morning, Fox and Friends’ Steve Doocy said, "It is extraordinary that the White House would go and target a news channel”... right before he compared Obama to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Neo-conservatism almost destroyed our country over the past eight years...Republican approval ratings have tanked in the polls. "Only 20 percent of Americans now identify themselves as Republicans, the fewest in 26 years.[..]"
80 percent of the country disagrees with the GOP's teabagger craziness, lies, underhanded tricks, negativity, pathetic whining? Take your pick.
Rove seems to have a plan to get back in power -- project all the Republican sins and failures onto the Obama administration. Compare what he says about Obama/Fox and what he said about Bush/NYT/NBC.
That's always been a Rove strategy -- attack your opponents for their strengths, attack them for your weaknesses. Assess your own faults and then accuse the other side of those exact same faults. Then, with a straight face, go on TV and act outraged about it, and repeat, repeat, repeat...
Good example--Running a candidate who avoided serving in Vietnam against a Vietnam medal winner...accuse the LATTER of cowardice.
Karl Rove has not one shred of integrity, honor, or credibility. To me, he will always be a traitor. His brand of dirty politics outed a CIA agent working to prevent nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.
If this had happened in Poppy Bush's White House, Rove would be in jail.
