History professor, author and international political commentator Dr. Allan Lichtman is interviewed by Karyn Strickler about the urgent need to get off the fossil fuel economy for our climate, our economy, our national security, our health and our children.
Is that what Republicans and independent voted for on Tuesday? Karl “Turdblossom” Rove, famous for being “Bush’s brain,” reveals his ties to big oil and energy and “wrongfully,” according to MSNBC, “boasts the end of climate change.”
You might as well believe in the Mayan calendar, I guess. These MoFo’s want it to end. The world that is. Don’t you believe it. We will bury Karl Rove, again, before this is all over…
About 20 people showed up at the Brookwood Mall Books-A-Million in Birmingham Tuesday to get a signed copy of former Bush political aide Karl Rove’s book, Courage and Consequence, a memoir of his time in the White House designed to try and repair the legacy of a president some scholars are already calling about the worst in American history.
The most prominent person to show up for a signed copy was none other than William “Bill” Pryor, the former Alabama attorney general who first started trying to investigate then-Governor Don Siegelman in 1998.
As a political payoff, Bush appointed Pryor to a judgeship on the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta in 2004 while Congress was in recess, although he was later confirmed by the Senate after a deal was negotiated by Senator John McCain’s “Gang of 14.”
Yes, that’s the same Bill Pryor Rove tried to deny knowing before the House Judiciary Committee, although Rove’s political consulting company ran his campaign for attorney general in 1998. When Pryor walked up and Rove saw him, he smiled real big and said, “Hey, Bud!”
Outside the mall and across the street, about the same number of people, about 20 by my count, showed up to protest Rove’s visit, sporting T-shirts with the slogan “Free Don Siegelman” and carrying signs indicating Rove is the real criminal who should be spending time in federal prison for his participation in high crimes and misdemeanors against the country and the Constitution by the administration of George W. Bush and Vice President Dick “Shotgun” Cheney.
Frank Mathews, a former radio talk show host and aide to jailed Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford, led the protest with his group the Outcast Voters League.
Inside, reporters were allowed to take pictures and ask questions for about 10 minutes before Rove started the book signing.
Political strategist Karl Rove has announced that he will be coming to Birmingham to promote his new book of political fiction to try and shore up president Bush’s “legacy” in office, Courage and Consequence, according to the local CBS affiliate, Channel 42 News.
He will be signing books at the Books-A-Million at Brookwood Mall at 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 27.
During the stop in Alabama, the so-called “architect” of President Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns, the architecture including election theft here and there in Florida, Ohio and Baldwin County, Alabama, will also be the featured speaker for a dinner hosted by the Alabama Republican Party at 6 p.m. at The Club in Birmingham.
Auburn Republican Mike Hubbard tells Alabama news organizations he’s “excited” to get Rove to come to town and help raise money.
While I have no doubt Republicans will flock to see the bald-headed white guy who president Bush called “Turd Blossom,” we doubt he will draw crowds like Sarah Palin.
Some Democrats who support former Governor Don Siegelman say they are working on mounting a protest of Rove’s visit.
They’ve designed a sign that says, “Restore Justice: Jail Rove. Free Don.”
“If you stand on the side of Gov. Don Siegelman, you’ve got a rare opportunity this coming Tuesday in Birmingham to add your voice in calling out Karl Rove as he continues his book tour,” said the Rev. Jack Zylman of Southside.
What we want to know is, is it true right-wing Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch is getting Rove’s column in the Wall Street Journal sans pay, as well as his appearances on Fox News? If so, he’s hardly qualified to call himself a professional writer, as he tends to do these days in a way that totally hides his still active clandestine role in manipulating events — through the many government employees hired during the Bush years still on the job.
If Murdoch is actually paying Rove something, perhaps the publisher should start holding him to the same standards other columnists must meet, like accuracy and truthfulness.
I’m convinced Karl Rove spent his entire juvenile years sitting in front of a mirror figuring out how to lie — without sounding like he’s lying — by twisting the meaning of words to the breaking point. He seems completely unable to utter one sentence that does not contain some kind of a twist on the facts.
Next time he faces Congress, this time in a public televised hearing, would somebody please ask him a simple question to see if he can manage it? I don’t care what it is, maybe: “What color is your shirt today?”
See if he can do it? I suspect he can’t. He would say something like:
“Well, it could be white, but it might be ivory or pearl, or…”
In his latest rant, published in Rupert Murdock’s Wall Street Journal, Bush’s brain admits “there is some good news in the Resurgent Republic poll for Mr. Obama if he can sell his plan as shifting power from ‘insurance bureaucrats to consumers.’ Resurgent’s poll found that Americans favor that by 57% to 38%.”
But he spins himself into a snort-em-up rant with this conclusion, like only the king spiderman can.
“Health-care reform was said to be ‘inevitable’ a few months ago. Today, its prospects are less certain, even to Democrats. The issue may even turn out to be a millstone for the party.”
Whoa, hooo…, biatch… How about this Karl Rovism…
“Americans are increasingly concerned about the cost — in money and personal freedom — of Mr. Obama’s nanny-state initiatives.
Nanny-state, jackpot justice, you got to hand it to him, but they ain’t buying it no mo…
“To strengthen the emerging coalition of independents and Republicans, the GOP must fight Mr. Obama’s agenda with reasoned arguments and attractive alternatives. Health care may actually be an issue that helps resurrect the GOP.
Hahaha! LOL! ROFL!
Hey Turd Blossom? Don’t you think you would be doing yourself and your party a favor by just disappearing from the limelight for awhile, like your buddy Georgie down in Crawford? What’s shakin’ down on Rosemary Beach?
Give this up man. You just ain’t no good at being a columnist. We can read polls too : )
This is too funny. Alaska Governor and potential Republican presidential candidate in 2012 Sarah Palin can’t even come up with her own BS now. She has to steal from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who you will recall had to resign in disgrace from that post back in the 1990s. Now he’s on the GOP short list for prez too?
I never thought I would live to see the day when the Republicans turned to people even dumber and more compromised than George W. Bush for their presidential candidates.
Hey Karl. Care to make a Yuengling bet on which party will dominate American politics for a generation? I don’t think it will be the GOP, boy. And they still want you on TV as a talking head? You ain’t such a brain after all : )
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.
For all my friends who do not get MSNBC as part of their cable package: Here’s the latest controversy over the Obama administration talking about looking forward, not back, which we broke back in December, like not investigating Bush administration officials for torture…
By all means let of CIA agents who followed orders off, and go after the lawyers who wrote the illegal policy memos in the first place, Alberto Gonzalez and Harriet Myers for starters. Only the little guys went down for Abu Ghraig.
The House Judiciary Committee is supposed to be engaged in that task. It just takes time. But there are also political pressures to weigh, and the matter of what’s getting enough publicity to keep it on the public and Congressional agenda.
The left has weighed in. It’s not all up to Obama anyway. His attorney general Eric Holder, must be accountable for this decision. Anybody got a bug on him?
In addition to torture, we still have what should be the most pressing investigation of them all. The one about turning the Department of Justice into a political wing of the White House. Mr. Rove was supposed to testify sometime in late April.
During the Bush years, we specialized in covering the politicization of the U.S. justice system as much as any news organization. Our archives are about the most comprehensive for anyone researching the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, and the original case against Richard Scrushy, which Glynn Wilson covered for The New York Times.
