Karl Rove, you created this monster, you live with it. You'll have to decide how many limbs you're willing to sacrifice to the likes of Michelle Malkin.
G'Bye Kory. I'm speculating there's a raid and a search warrant somewhere in your future. Oh well, if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear. Oh yeah, I guess Margaret wins.
And yes, both of you will find sympathy somewhere between "shit" and "syphilis" in a cheap dictionary.
Now why does Ryan Sparrow keep showing up in the crystal ball? Thing must be defective.
Two separate incidents - one in the US and one in Canada - occurred yesterday that got me thinking about politics and the media. Mind you, these were not isolated incidents by any means.
Palin press may boycott UN conference By: Kenneth P. Vogel September 23, 2008 01:30 PM EST
NEW YORK – Journalists, displeased with Sarah Palin’s efforts to restrict their access to her, are threatening not to cover her events surrounding the United Nations conference here unless they're allowed more access.
The unfolding boycott is the latest development in a rocky relationship between Palin’s handlers and the press, in which the campaign has sought to tightly control her interactions with the media.
The campaign had originally indicated that the print reporters following her campaign would be among the small group of journalists allowed to attend the so-called “pool sprays” before Palin’s meetings with dignitaries on the sidelines of the U.N. meetings.
The sprays are basically glorified photo opportunities during which journalists can snap photos and film footage and – if they’re lucky – shout a question or two at Palin and her company before she adjourns for private meetings. On Tuesday, those meetings were to include Afghan President Karzai and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
But the imbroglio began developing Tuesday morning when Palin’s handlers informed the small print press contingent covering her campaign that the print reporter designated to cover the events, Elizabeth Holmes of the Wall Street Journal, would not be allowed to cover the sprays.
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The campaign also at first moved to bar CNN, the television network designated for pool duty, from sending its editorial producer – basically a hybrid print/video journalist – though the campaign budged when the network threatened to withhold its cameras as well.
Incident #2 occurred right here in Metro Vancouver last evening. Via the Vancouver Sun:
Tories keep candidate Cadman away from media
Andrew Mayeda - Canwest News Service Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Conservatives refused a request by the media to interview the woman at the centre of the so-called Cadman affair at a campaign stop in Surrey Tuesday.
Media travelling with Prime Minister Stephen Harper requested an interview with Dona Cadman, the Conservative candidate for Surrey North and widow of late MP Chuck Cadman, after Harper addressed a rally here.
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However, the Conservatives ushered her and the other candidates out the back door of the conference hall before the media could speak with her.
Dona Cadman has alleged that Tory operatives offered to buy her husband a $1-million life-insurance policy so he would vote with the Conservatives to topple the government in the summer of 2005. Cadman died of cancer weeks after the confidence vote, which the Liberal government survived.
"Local candidates' priority is campaigning in their local ridings, and not talking to the national media," said Harper's chief spokesman, Kory Teneycke.
Teneycke suggested Cadman did not want to speak with the media, but would not confirm if the party actually relayed the interview request to her.
Sound like quite similar incidents, don't you think?
One may be tempted to jump to the conclusion that the muzzling of the press may very well be orchestrated by someone?
Excuse me for a moment, I've got to go close the windows. It seems there is one of Stanley Park's famed furry black and white creatures in the 'hood spreading his or her perfume around.
(walk, walk. peer out windows. scratch head in confusion. walk, walk.)
Well, I'll be damned.
That wasn't what it was at all.
Apparently, the infamous karl rove was in the area and the stench of his "craft" has just now made it's way to The West End from downtown Calgary.
Sorry for the confusion . . . .
(It's not bad enough the life-form has a beach house in the same county that we live in Florida, he's got to follow us here, too?!?!)
It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.
Lofty words from an administration which couldn't find democracy in a dictionary even if you tore out all the pages not containing the word.
Shouldn't Karl Rove be in prison by now? Although, I guess if you were in northern Alabama last night, you watched something else. WHNT-TV the CBS affiliate which broadcasts into northern Alabama censored that part of the program and then lied about it. Yes, they have strong ties to the Republican party.
When Newsweek hired Markos Moulitsas, the founder of Daily Kos, to write for them, Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham, responding to the shrieking from the right-wing, announced that they were also hiring a "conservative" to provide "balance".
Which just goes to prove Jon Meacham is some kind of idiot. Karl doesn't do blogs; Karl has others do that for him. Much in the same way that Karl doesn't engage in debate; Karl organizes smear-campaigns.
This should be interesting. FOX News slammed the hiring of Markos on the basis that he was no journalist.
And Karl Rove is a ..... turd, but definitely not a journalist .... nor a blogger.
After this happened, Karl Rove, whose ego is just too big to keep his mouth shut, has responded to Laurie David and Sheryl Crow by suggesting they insulted him.
In their Web posting, Ms. Crow and Ms. David described Mr. Rove as responding with “anger flaring,” and as having “exploded with even more venom” as the argument continued.
“She came over to insult me,” Mr. Rove said Saturday night, “and she succeeded.”
Mr. Rove did not respond to a request for comment on the women’s Internet posting on Sunday.
Imagine someone insulting Karl Rove. And the reason he didn't comment on Sunday? He needs time to run it through the spin merchants. Impolitical nails Rove perfectly with the label "destroyer of reputations-in-chief". Some other labels which might apply... liar, treacherous scum and psychopath come immediately to mind.
On Saturday night Laurie David and Sheryl Crow attended the annual White House Correspondents Dinner. Aside from having to listen to Rich Little re-live the '60s, (in an attempt to kill any memory of Stephen Colbert's brilliant performance last year), they were introduced to none other than Karl Rove.
We asked Mr. Rove if he would consider taking a fresh look at the science of global warming. Much to our dismay, he immediately got combative. And it went downhill from there. We reminded the senior White House advisor that the US leads the world in global warming pollution and we are doing the least about it. Anger flaring, Mr. Rove immediately regurgitated the official Administration position on global warming which is that the US spends more on researching the causes than any other country. We felt compelled to remind him that the research is done and the results are in (www.IPCC.ch). Mr. Rove exploded with even more venom. Like a spoiled child throwing a tantrum, Mr. Rove launched into a series of illogical arguments regarding China not doing enough thus neither should we. (Since when do we follow China's lead?)
At which point you would think things probably couldn't get much worse. Wrong.
In his attempt to dismiss us, Mr. Rove turned to head toward his table, but as soon as he did so, Sheryl reached out to touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, "Don't touch me." How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow? Unphased, Sheryl abruptly responded, "You can't speak to us like that, you work for us." Karl then quipped, "I don't work for you, I work for the American people." To which Sheryl promptly reminded him, "We are the American people."
Karl Rove did not want Sheryl Crow to touch him. What's wrong with that man?! Most guys would go ga-ga if Sheryl Crow waved from across the street.
Ultimately, we were left wondering what on Earth Mr. Rove was talking about when he said "the American people."
I have the answer to that... pick me! Pick me! OK. Here it is.
It's not you.
Karl decides. You follow. It's paleoconservative way. Once in power, they decide. If you don't agree with them, you are irrelevant.
Now that we've cleared that up, we need to be reminded that Sheryl Crow (and Jeff Trott) wrote a song which could easily be applied to the chubby little political pit-bull.
Hmmm... where did that come from? Oh... and Rich Little? Wasn't David Frum available?
