Sure. If by "little guy" you mean shrub co. and corporate congloms and big oil.

This is satire, right? This guy stole some unaired material from the Daily Show? That's the only logical explanation I can think of.

Rove is the worst possible stain on politics. His is a philosophy that depends entirely on dividing people, on turning Americans against Americans to secure votes and benefit a very tiny fraction of super rich business executives.

Rove is a pig. And he has gotten away with murder - literally.

Tell Me It Ain't So

I have heard everything now. Rove helping the little guy is no more true then Al Qaeda in Iraq, and that is the biggest lie of the war after the WMDs lie. I am not surprise at the positive spin Rove is getting. When you have a cable news system that is 90% conservative, you see how much control of the media can change the complete direction of news and the people in the news.

Joseph

The Philadelphia Daily News' befudled Stu "Another 9/11 Would Be Helpful" Bykofsky gets OWNED by Scott Horton. Listen to this delicious interview smackdown:

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/08/15/scott-horton-takes-on-stu-bykofsky/

If he's looking out the for "little guy", why bring back the credit card and car loan interest deductions? that dragonian bankruptcy law??? Yeah, I'm sure the "little guy" loves him for that one....

provided the "Little Guy" has a last name of Rockefeller then I guess yes, this asshole is for the little guy screwing the even littler guys.

Rove is

I made the mistake of reading this article while drinking my morning coffee and nearly choked as a result. After I recovered, I decided that it has to be one of those Bizarro world sorts of things. Down is up, black is white, etc. If you read it in that context, it makes perfect sense.

concernedmom @ 13:

I made the mistake of reading this article while drinking my morning coffee and nearly choked as a result. After I recovered, I decided that it has to be one of those Bizarro world sorts of things. Down is up, black is white, etc. If you read it in that context, it makes perfect sense.

It's Opposite Day!!! Wheeeeeee! :D

Rove's "greatest accomplishment" has been to craft language that has convinced a large portion of Americans to vote against their own interests.

WHere do these lost balls come from?

The fact that Gerson gets to spew his conflicted, revisionist nonsense in the Washington Post several times a week is about as damning an indictment against the paper as anything. Imagine giving Ron Ziegler his own column in 1975 shortly after Watergate, and that's about the size of the suck-up job.

From a certain perspective I can almost understand it. THey really believe that they are for the little guy. And having known quite a few little guys, they think the same way that Rove and co do. The little guy is always out for himself. The cult of the little guy is let the other guy worry about himself, let's just worry about me. So from that stand point, I think what Rove said was true. It doesn't matter that Republican policies do not actually benefit the little guy. The little guy is so grateful to get three hundred dollars back at the end of the year that he doesn't realize that the big guys are getting hundreds of thousands back each year. And their brother's keeper? Forget it.

As Nikolai Gogol said once, "People are ready to embrace all of mankind as a brother, but will not embrace their brother."

BushCo: Helping the little guy to buy an overpriced house, introducing the little guy to the the brave new world of mortgage foreclosures.

War is Peace. Love is Hate. Rove is champion of the little guy. This is doublespeak as surely as we've always been at war with EastAsia.

George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty Four as a warning.
George Bush reads it as a manual of operations.

SadbutTrue: Is the bit about George Orwell yours, or a quote. Good stuff!

The new Mission Accomplished photo:

http://thumbsnap.com/v/FoU30anh.jpg

Rove must have given him an extra dollar to cum up with that drivel!!!!!

The very word CONSERVATIVE is the opposite of reformist!!!!! Conserve means to conserve the old ways. Conservatives hate change and reform. They fear and loathe new ideas. It doesn't matter what they are or how they will help. New is scary and frightening, and conservatives cower in fear of NEW!!!!

One thing they are good at though. They are experts at lying!!!! That is an old conservative notion that never changes.

ha! In New York City that's the truth. You can't leave anything on the street for five minutes before someone picks it up and takes it, or lives in it!

I want to know what Gerson's been smoking or drinking, because it would be nice to get that HIGH...even at 9:00 in the morning. :-)

Don't give a damn what they were founded on. What I give a damn about is what they've been doing the last twelve years. Which is pushing their bullshit religious agenda, violating the constitution, ignoring the suffering of the people in order to make big oil happy and pushing all all into an environmental, social, economic and military disaster of epic and unheard of proportions.

Wow, What an arrogant bubble boy. He and his boss are completely out of touch with the pulse of the nation. He needs to keep up with polls, and know that mainstream America is not with him. Completely Out of touch. Which planet does he live on? -----> http://www.YouPolls.com Keep them Honest

Blue Buddha @ 14:

Bit NOLA @ 6:

Hey, Nixon gave us the EPA. What conclusion should we draw from that about the thug party?

They're Dirty Hippies. They only care about themselves. Always high on oxycontin, viagra, or any other Rush that makes them feel the power. Take a bath, Rove.
And Grrrson, get a real name, take your nose out of Rove's ass, and join the human race. Feed your head on something else besides the heroin of placing stupidity before country.

As bad as Nixon was, he had at least one good thing to come from his legacy: the EPA. Almost seven years in office and Bush has come up with nothing that was either good... or even worked.

And in fact has worked tirelessly to gut and utterly emasculate every environmental and fiscal counterbalance that formerly existed. shrub is like an 'anti' midas. Everything he touches turns to shit.

Rove is no genius. Nixon had his Donald Segretti. Bush has Karl Rove.

It doesn't take genius to exploit the fact that Big Media will spread any lies you give them, without ever checking any facts, and without ever admitting to past mistakes.

Republican Party: For the Little Guy

The underhung

The P***k party.

I laughed so darn hard I had to go to the bathroom twice. And there were 68 posts before me.....I have one question...does the MSM think all Americans are as stupid as republicans? Correction...does the MSM thing all Americans are as stupid as MSM>

Rove’s main influence on the Republican Party has not been a series of tactical innovations

"Tactical innovations"??? Is that what they're calling dirty tricks now?

Karl Rove showed his true feelings about the average worker when he said the following.

According to a congressman’s wife who attended a Republican women’s luncheon yesterday, Karl Rove explained the rationale behind the president’s amnesty/open-borders proposal this way: “I don’t want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas.”

-GSD

Wasn't Machiavelli a little guy too?

Nothing pisses me off more than when these Bush administrations scumbags and acolytes invoke the names of Lincoln and Roosevelt when comparing their actions and principles to those of these past great Presidents.

Since one of Rove's main concern was in getting his clients elected, and even one of his protegees was hired to replace a federal prosecutor who wasn't pursuing election fraud cases of false id's, couldn't we logically conclude that Rove was the one behind the vote caging of the "little guy"?

Well, he does lay it on pretty thick. But you know what they say: "In for a penny, in for a pound." Or in Rove's case, a quarter ton.

I think he meant lil' George, not little guy.

With Rove's resignation, the Bushies have begun their campaign to rewrite the true actual history of their regime and replace it with their own bizarro narrative from a parallel universe (Darren Dalton much?).
Remember, these guys consider themselves as "History's actors", who have the right and the ability to do this.
We need to be diligent and ram each and every lie they come up with back down their throats and we need to do it in the print and film media, where more people have a chance at seeing the Bushie history revisionist lies exposed.
Also I'd love to see a "MediaMatters" type blog created to deal with this upcoming Bushie rewriting of history, where everyone of the Bushie "History's actors" lies are thoroughly debunked with links to the truth, so that the few credible journalists out there can easily access the true history and how the Bushies are trying to manipulate it with their lies.
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History's Actors

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

- Ron Suskind "Without a Doubt"

OxyCon @ 65:

With Rove's resignation, the Bushies have begun their campaign to rewrite the true actual history of their regime and replace it with their own bizarro narrative from a parallel universe (Darren Dalton much?).
Remember, these guys consider themselves as "History's actors", who have the right and the ability to do this.
We need to be diligent and ram each and every lie they come up with back down their throats and we need to do it in the print and film media, where more people have a chance at seeing the Bushie history revisionist lies exposed.
Also I'd love to see a "MediaMatters" type blog created to deal with this upcoming Bushie rewriting of history, where everyone of the Bushie "History's actors" lies are thoroughly debunked with links to the truth, so that the few credible journalists out there can easily access the true history and how the Bushies are trying to manipulate it with their lies.
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History's Actors

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

- Ron Suskind "Without a Doubt"

One thing Rove and his kind didn't take into consideration is THE INTERNET and all those pesky bloggers. The Pig Boy. No wonder you're seeing such venomous attacks on KOS, FDL and even C&L.

Rove: Champion of 'the little guy'?

You just can't read that title without thinking 'the little guy' means George W. Bush. I passed the thread two or three times before I stopped to read that it meant something else.

Gayle @ 70:

Coalition death toll in Iraq hits 4,000
Escalation in Iraq by the numbers
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH15Ak03.html

well the more deaths the better memmorial we can build in dc, i see a wall , a lage wall maby puce collored a lage picture of the chimpy on the one end and a larger picture of the cheny turd featured on the other end, in between these nazi thugs will be the names of their victims , god it will be gourgous below the names will read , [ what better way to honor our war dead then to make more of them] rest in peace !

Oh yeah, tax cuts for the wealthy really help people who are struggling. What fucking drugs are these people on? And if Teddy Roosevelt could come back, he'd smack Bush in the face.

Rove's a champion at scraping little guy remains off the bottom of his shoes.

Check out the readers comments to Gerson's love letter to Rove, very entertaining, I'm on page 20, and there's only been about three posts in favor of Rove out of the whole bunch at this point

WashStateBlue @ 74:

I'm SICK of this idea of "Balance" that the so called Liberal Media thinks it has to print by propagandist/apologists like Gerson spews.

What's worse is, HE is part of the problem, not some bystander pundit.

It's like letting Cheney write a column about "how outing Valerie Plame" was really hard on him....

It's just so stunning that these parasites scream so loudly about moral values and love to blather and rant about moral decay, then they are the ultimate Nihilists: Nothing matters except they win and line their pockets with their blood money.

Would you ever see A right wing rag or Faux allow this kind of unabashed spin and historic revisionism of a Democrat?

Hardly, but, of course, WAPO must be "fair and balanced!"

Great comment.

My own analogy that I would add is; I'm waiting for the media to add balance to news reports about bank robbers. "Was Mr. Rove, as Liberals put it, stealing? Or, was he really just liberating the money? You decide, later with Nick Cavooto."

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit

The only time Karl Rove has ever liked the little guy is when he wants to scrap something off his jackboots.

WHOOOOOAAA, BIG FELLA! Easy there, Michael, you'll pull something.

This is the same Michael Gerson whose White House colleagues recently accused him of writing squat during his tenure -- simply taking the work of others, done while he was off giving feature interviews, and then taking the credit for it. Here in NYC, that's called, Pulling A Rudy. (That's a very bad thing. Ask Bill Bratton of the LAPD.)

to help the little guy get ahead.” The models he cites are 401(k)s and the mortgage interest deduction — government policies that encouraged individual wealth and ownership.

Ummm, let's not forget context here. The whole idea of 401k/IRA/etc. plans were to have something in place when they killed the idea of pensions. Take the riff-raff's retirement off of their backs, and slide it over to the R-R's. Just cut those suckers loose. This was not a boon; it was a way to kill the Pension. Period. Just greed again. Pure and simple. Of course, they then set it up where the biggest beneficiaries of the new plans were the people who had all kinds of discretionary dollars to save: THEMSELVES!

Remember at all times:
1) Always use the Rex Reed Rule: whatever they say, the opposite is true. Their "Clean Air" will kill you faster than a bullet.
2) If you see "an anonymous Administration official said," that means it's a self-serving lie from a self-aggrandizing coward.

What Rove and Gerson et al. need to understand is that it's their little guy who is going to be adjudicating their war crimes trials and most likely sending them to the gallows.

He's the champion of any little guy who's ever been a bigot, anyway...

I was just at WaPo. Gersons not faring well in the readership feedback dept. 60 pages of letters so far running 200/1 against him.
I wonder how He's going to enjoy being out of the cozy little cocoon of the west wing? Not so much.

ysbaddaden @ 90:

Rove likes to play with his little guy.

Maybe he'll play with it so hard he'll tear its head off.

Champion of the little guy! No way. Rove lead the charge up Constitution Hill. He is the worst excuse for a human being (of course, along with Dick Cheney) to be alive now. He believes himself to be a political Svengali. He lies, he cheats, he deceives. I am hoping that this spider gets wrapped up in his own web and suffocates. As for loving his wife? If my husband had a male business associate who called him "Turdblossom", I don't know how long our marriage would have lasted.

This just shows that you can say anything if you don't care how stupid you look. Rove sayin' it don't make it so.

Well worth watching the short video at:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08172007/watch3.html

what happened to my post?

Just posted Bill Moyers' take on Karl Rove at my website