Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t watch Fox news or give a damn what Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove has to say. But this clip just might piss off the New York Times enough to get them back on the story of putting Karl Rove on the stand “under oath” and getting to the bottom of all the crimes of the Bush administration.

Here’s a little tip about Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger. I met him in New Orleans at the Ritz Carlton when I was working as a free-lance reporter for the “Howell Raines New York Times,” as some critics liked to call it in those heady days after the Times won seven Pulitzer Prizes in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. What you won’t learn from anybody else in the media is that Raines was to Sulzberger what Rove was to Bush, that is to say, his brain, from their early days working together in the Washington bureau.

Early on after Bill Keller took over as editor, Rove had a meeting with him and bashed him to his face for not being “objective” and this crap about the Times being out of the mainstream of “American values.” This is the kind of nonsense that passes for wisdom on Fox, which truly is the news channel for American dumbasses and rednecks.

Fact: The New York Times IS mainstream and in fact THE ESTABLISHMENT PAPER OF RECORD. Always has been. Always will be. It is NOT the alternative liberal paper the left wants it to be. Never has been. Never will be.

Karl Rove is a college drop out who is not the genius people make him out to be. He bragged for years about creating a Republican Party majority in America for a generation. Instead, his criticism of the city of Richmond, Virginia likely cost McCain-Palin that state in the 2008 election, and his scorched earth Machiavellian political strategies nearly destroyed the GOP during his eight year run in D.C.

When Rove talks about mainstream American values, he is talking about Southern American conservative values still left over from the Civil War. He has left the Republican Party with only the support of redneck Southern white males. I would hardly call that mainstream American values.

It is now obvious that President Obama represents mainstream American values — not Bush or Rove or freaking Bill O’Reilly.

Rachell Maddow on MSNBC is now competitive with O’Reilly and CNN’s Larry King in the ratings.

When Rove celebrates the decline in the stock of the New York Times, that just gives us another reason to want to see him waterboarded.

Of course the Times has made some incredibly bad news and business decisions over the years, which has cost them much support, including my support. It’s too bad, because as Raines said once on the Charlie Rose show on PBS, the Times is like no other news institution in world history. If anyone were to create a news organization today, you couldn’t re-create the Times in today’s media climate. It holds a special place in history, much like the United States itself.

But if the Times wants to regain it’s glory — and value — Sulzberger needs to take it out of the stock market and make it a family-owned paper again. And, rather than hiring children for cheap to be its stringers, the National Desk should consider going back to hiring old pros like me who can get the goods.

For starters, let’s start following Karl Rove around and get the dirt on him and have him locked up and muzzled. Otherwise, he will be a plague on American politics for years like that fat ass drug addict Rush Limbaugh. The Times should have taken him out many years ago. But of course they wouldn’t do that, because they ARE objective. In fact, the Times invented objective journalism, in 1898.

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