Oh My Gosh! Karl Rove Has Opinions!
Using a bigger typeface than I have seen on any site other than Drudge, the Huffington Post fairly screams about this story, which I include in its entirety:
Karl Rove, President Bush’s top political advisor and deputy White House chief of staff, spoke at businessman Teddy Forstmann’s annual off the record gathering in Aspen, Colorado this weekend. Here is what Rove had to say that the press wasn’t allowed to report on.On Katrina: The only mistake we made with Katrina was not overriding the local government…
On The Anti-War Movement: Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real anti-war movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an anti-war rally…
On Bush’s Low Poll Numbers: We have not been good at explaining the success in Iraq. Polls go up and down and don’t mean anything…
On Iraq: There has been a big difference in the region. Iraq will transform the Middle East…
On Judy Miller And Plamegate: Judy Miller is in jail for reasons I don’t really understand…
On Joe Wilson: Joe Wilson and I attend the same church but Joe goes to the wacky mass…
In attendance at the conference, among others were: Harvey Weinstein, Brad Grey, Michael Eisner, Les Moonves, Tom Freston, Tom Friedman, Bob Novak, Barry Diller, Martha Stewart, Margaret Carlson, Alan Greenspan, Andrea Mitchell, Norman Pearlstein and Walter Isaacson.
Yes, well…ummm…*cough*…that’s certainly quite a story. He-he…ummm…okay, then.
Joe Wilson goes to the wacky mass? Are there puppets involved?
The only mistake we made was not overriding the local government? Sure, the local government was a bunch of clowns, but on principle…
Are we sure that Karl Rove isn’t actually a Hillary Clinton plant?
I hear there’s a new tell-all book coming out about the wacky mass…
I suspect this story must be true. I have difficulty imagining the folks at the Huffington Post coming up with such reasonable views by chance.
Hmm. If in an “off the record” setting the worst thing Karl Rove had to say about Cindy Sheehan is that she’s a “clown,” well, that puts him far to the left of pretty much everyone I know. Interesting.
Greg-
Actually, that would reassure me. The worst harm “clowns” like Cindy and Michael Moore could do would be if they actually caused important people (like Karl Rove) to waste any serious thought or emotion on them. It pleases me to hear it suggested that even Karl Rove, whose job is largely to worry about what domestic political harm Cindy’s circus might be causing the administration, has a good sense of perspective on her.
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[...] Somewhat breaking the off-the-record rules, Robert Novak reports from the Aspen conference that gave us the Karl Rove quotes that Arianna Huff’N’Puff so gleefully rolled in, much like Scrooge McDuck in the money bin. Novak reports on the perhaps surprising amount of Bush-bashing going on, and says he was practically shunned for complaining about the one-sided tone of the proceedings. Keep in mind that these are Republicans. I once bought the hype about Karen Hughes and the other members of Bush’s PR team, but I must say, I consider the single largest failure of the Administration to be its ability to sell itself. [...]