Gee, Karl Rove seems to have taken umbrage at Maureen Dowd's latest column. Especially this part:
So some respite from the pressure is clearly a healthy thing. Not as much respite as W. took, bicycling and vacationing through all the disasters that President Obama is now stuck fixing — spending a total of 490 days in the tumbleweed isolation of Crawford and rarely deigning to sightsee as he traveled the world. ...
What a relief to have an urbane, cultivated, curious president who’s out and about, engaged in the world. Not dangerously detached, as W. was, or darkly stewing like Cheney. Not hanging with the Rat Pack like J.F.K. or getting bored and up to mischief like Bill Clinton.
Responded Rove, yesterday on Fox:
Rove: I think Maureen Dowd is a bitter, twisted, deranged columnist for the New York Times, who misses no opportunity to show her disdain for anybody on the conservative side of the aisle.
I actually went to an editorial board meeting at the New York Times and wasted a couple of bucks on some flowers to give Maureen Dowd at the meeting, so that it would give her a smile on her face, and that didn't even work. This is a dour, downbeat liberal. And, uh, it was an entertaining piece, I frankly agree with her that President Obama's entitled to go to New York and entertain his wife. I suspect I would have done it maybe just a little bit later in the year than now. But he's entitled. You do not want a president who feels confined in the bubble.
But why she felt so compelled to go out and trash somebody who did our country a great service for eight years and handled himself in an admirable fashion is just typical of Maureen Dowd's twisted, bitter little heart.
Well, I customarily don't find myself in the position of defending Maureen Dowd, but she was of course quite right. She's not merely trashing George W. Bush -- she's demonstrating the laughable falsity of Rove's claim that Bush was "someone who did our country a great service" (yeah, if by "service" you mean the agricultural kind) and "handled himself in an admirable fashion" (other than that whole running-the-country-off-a-cliff thing).
Being asleep at the wheel at 9/11, talking the country into invading another under false pretenses, sleepwalking through Katrina, inducing the greatest economic crisis since the Depression: Not exactly what I'd call "great service" or "admirable," would you?
Rove goes on to talk about how leaderless the Republicans are these days. Somehow, what goes unmentioned is the great damage his administration did to his party. Of course.
Screw you rove!
You shouldn't be talkin smack about anyone.
Traitor.
This video says it all!!!
Isn't Karl-boy supposed to be in jail?
like this:'
http://www.pubrecord.org/law/735-obamas-couns...
he got away with many things.....almost..
Pointing out that Bush likes his vacation days is not the reason she's bitter, twisted and deranged.
Gee whiz, flowers didn't even fix that dame. She must be some sort of bitter, old maid.
"She rejected me, must be a sexless harpie." - KKKarl
Bush's record is indefensible. Even the Great (Overrated) Karl Rove cannot polish a turd.
then I have arrived in a parallel universe where up is down and freedom is slavery
Does Rove never look into the mirror?
It sure would have been a lot nicer to inherit what bush inherited. It amazes me that these assholes will not give Obama one ounce of credit in having to deal with what is probably the worst scenario any President has had to deal with the day he walked into office. Rove, suck a turd you bitter, twisted, deranged excuse for a human being.
Rove isn't a turd blossom, he's just a turd.
and then the right wing complains that the President has "taken on too much".doy yoi yoing!
Be thankful he's a man of seemingly endless reserves of energy,because he's gonna need every ounce to fix the disastrous mess Karl get's all pouty and defensive about.Just cause Mo'Do didn't fall for his slimy "charm" offensive.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Karl's name is Duke! He goes by Duke. Just ask him what name he went by when Bush was governor Texas.
I think there's a medical term for 'rove syndrome', just can't remember. It's when you project your own personality onto others - perceiving others to be as dishonerable as you are.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
and it isn't medical or psychological. It's a character defect.
Assmunchausen syndrome.
What he has is known as Cranial Rectal Inversion.
Let's see how far to the right they go before they fall off of the edge of this flat world.
interview from a prison?
Hey, Rove! Kiss our collective ass, will you?
"Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying..."-------Roger Waters, "Comfortably Numb"
That's why he's not in prison.
to side with Rove, but I think MoDowd is a bit deranged. Remember when she went off on that jag about Gore's weight? And there have been other weird distractions.
But getting back on point, I've scraped dogshit off of my shoe that is more attractive and intelligent than Rove.
Dowd is Dowd. A bit off her rocker at times but where does Rove get off speaking badly about anybody?
MoDo’s shtick grew old under Clinton. It was cute for a while, but she has beaten it into the ground. Too bad, I like Maureen (she’s cute too). But like Tweety, politics for her is just a parade of personalities to be propped up and put down as if they were running for a popularity contest and she was the only judge.
And Rove is in no position to judge either – lest he be judged IN COURT.
but I think "Faux News" is the correct answer to your question.
Don't want to defend Rove but Dowd is a lame hack writer. I do remember her idiotic attacks against Gore and in general her columns are the kind of vapid garbage that makes most political commentary in the MSM so pointless.
I don't want to side with Rove either, but Dowd is bitter and twisted. I can't stand either of them quite frankly. Granted, Dowd didn't work for the most incompetent administration ever (and probably won't be charged with war crimes, something Rove might be charged with), but she helped them get into power with her relentless trashing of Gore in 2000.
Screw 'em both....
All problems of the US economy such as deficit spending, commercial and residential loan fraud and poor underwriting, health insurance/medical spending, military overreach only began in 2001 and ended in November 2008. Haven't you heard Karl?
but did anyone volunteer to cut up branches in Crawford? I guess someone had to do it. although 490 days to clear branches seems like lollygagging to me. I'm just saying, is all. . .
and be afraid of horses? I guess that is because he is a Connecticut-born "cowboy." They ride BM'ers there. Maybe he is a lumberjack, like in that Monty Python song.
So whats the audience for this stuff incapacitated or something?
Or just awaiting senility?
will this klown ever wipe off the shxt on his nose.
See there it is again. We're "entitled". . . . to lie cheat steal whatever it takes to keep up appearances.
that's the new america way. don't produce/manufacture anything instead deceive and take advantage of others in the name of capitalism. every person for themselves.........buyer beware. Rove is dirty. he will rationalize doing bad for his perceived good. he fooled the fools that believed in g.w. BUSH.
I remember back when Tim Russert was still alive someone was interviewing him. I especially remember he said he told his son at a young age that he was not entitled to anything in life. No one owed him anything, it was up to him to earn what he wanted.
I remember thinking at the time, what a great lesson to teach a kid, and I still feel the same way.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Dowd: What a relief to have an urbane, cultivated, curious president who’s out and about, engaged in the world. Not dangerously detached, as W. was, or darkly stewing like Cheney. Not hanging with the Rat Pack like J.F.K. or getting bored and up to mischief like Bill Clinton.
Rove: I think Maureen Dowd is a bitter, twisted, deranged columnist for the New York Times, who misses no opportunity to show her disdain for anybody on the conservative side of the aisle.
When did JFK and Bill Clinton become conservative? Like her on not, she hits both sides of the aisle equally hard. She seems to hate everybody.
twisted? check
deranged? check
But I don't know about bitter.
She always seemed deranged about Bill Clinton. I don't know what her problem with JFK was.
his head around the floor (just being symbolic Karl) that's why we don't get access to "higher ups" in this country.
It all has to be controlled!
"oh, well how much can you contribute?"
Or how many days he was actually "working" at the White House.
We all know that Cheney was secretly running everything from his hidden, underground bunker anyways.
Now, if we were to find out that Cheney took a record number of vacation days, then, maybe, we'd have something to worry about.
A whole lot apparently.
This soon to be jailhouse bitch spews his ignorant lies to the racist Obama haters and the criminally ill. Once the lying pig lauded Dubya, his mic should had been cut.
... just curious.
that's obvious. Life in a pig pen.
from TV!
Whens the last time you saw Rove out getting a burger at Five Guys?
I just the love the fact that the right-whine is starting to consistently attack itself. Flail away and destroy yourselves!
when one of em goes out and shoots things up for example. After encouraging them to do so!
Rove: I think Dick Cheney is a bitter, twisted, deranged apologist for the Bush II administration, who misses no opportunity to show his disdain for anybody on the liberal/progressive side of the aisle who wants him and his cronies arrested and brought to trial for the war crimes and thievery they committed while pretending to be legitimately elected officials of the US government.
I thought it was pretty damned cool that the President, while up to his ass in shit left to him by bush, took time out to keep a promise to his wife and take her to NY on a date. Good for him, good for Michelle, and good for the example he set for all husbands. Don't let work separate you from your family all the time. Work can sometimes wait, but you never get a chance to go back and relive time with your wife and kids.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Now it's pitched as abnormal to do or want to do some normal things without big brother looking over your shoulder.
at clearing brush. I doubt you'll find his equal.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Considering what I would expect bush's IQ to be, clearing brush was probably about all his brain could handle.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
You'll have to deal with it Karl. You can never escape the stain.
Do not lose sight of the fact that Dowd wrote this article in reaction the SHIT that Obama has had to take for taking his wife to a play on Broadway and for his last trip overseas. Remember what Grassley had to say about going to Paris and what Michael Steele said about going to the play. When she compares what Obama has done with what Bush did Rove calls her a "bitter, twisted, deranged columnist." Just for poining out what Bush did? My oh my.
...my opposition to capital punishment!
in the long run, especially of the Rightard meme is correct about it having a 'deterrent' effect. Strap Larry Summers, and Bob Rubin to a gurney and shoot 'em the "Hello, Jesus" cocktail...
"Hey honey did you hear that. Mr. Roves right. I real admire this man for his schophusiticatered intellengence."
to be on TV!"
If you want a good read, check out Maureen Dowd's column after the levees broke at New Orleans. Ouch, ouch, ouch and SPOT ON! I cheered reading it.
I read it when it came out. Check NYT archives.
far left loon >.<
unfortunately.
Here's the link. It's must read stuff. She trashes him about everything A to Z. It was September 3, 2005, when most of the nation was waving flags and "kicking Iraqi butt," but she takes him to the cleaners. I feel in love with her that day. ENJOY: you will not be disappointed!!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/03/opinion/03d...
far left loon >.<
Ah, this reminds me of the infamous remark by Cokie Roberts when she complained of then candidate Obama taking his family to the exotic place called Hawaii. Of course the trip was to visit with his grandmother one last time and Hawaii was where she lived.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
she was special when I was young and ignorant.
Barf
Same here. I remember listening to NPR 15 years or so ago and hanging on every word...
I wonder if times have changed, Cokie has changed, or I have changed? One thing is certain though - NPR has changed.
Deserves a swift kick in the ass. No one has promoted neo-liberalism and de-regulation as relentlessly as that hack.
NPR went way bad somewhere between 1998 and 2001.
Let me see if I've got this straight.
Rove is a lying piece of shit who has had his hands in every criminal activity of the Bush years and he thinks buying a couple of flowers for someone will make them smile at him?
I wonder what he buys for the boys he wants more than a smile from.
"SQUEEE! SQUEEEEE! OINK!
SQUEEEEEEEEE!!! SQWONK! SQUEEEEE!"
Whatever, Butterbutt.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
Man, whatever did pigs do to get such horrible association ascribed to them?
I'm trying to think of which animal could be suitably employed as a comparison to berate a human, but the only one I can think of is a human.
You are right. Pigs don't deserve to be equated with pond scum like Rove. However, one thread might lead back to books like Animal Farm, in which the pigs are extremely villainous.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
I'm ashamed of this country anymore and even worse we still think we're the most advanced country on Earth.
Yeah right sure bubba
I feel your shame. I can only imagine. I'd be giving up my citizenship and moving out.
Liz Cheney was on Larry King griping about how Obama isn't going around the world saying, "America is the best country to ever exist in the history of mankind."
Yeah, real made-me-puke stuff.
[edit-- as an expat, I'm halfway there. The rest is just a bit of paperwork, but I'm not disgusted with Canada.]
far left loon >.<
with respect to arrogance and greed. Give credit where it's due.
If a guy brought me flowers that cost "a couple of bucks", I wouldn't be impressed either.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
That's pretty close to a year and a half.
So Bush and his nest of cronies, crooks, and gunsels actually fucked the country up in just over six-and-a-half years..
That's not incompetence, friends, that fucking GENIUS!
As it turns out, Bush easily eclipsed Ronald Reagan's previous record for presidential sloth. By March 2008, Bush had spent all or part of 879 days at his Crawford, Texas ranch or at Camp David, surpassing Reagan's mark of 866. By the time he left office, George W. Bush had made 149 trips to and spent 487 days at Camp David, with another 77 getaways to (and 490 days at) Crawford. Toss in 11 visits and 43 days at his folks' compound in Kennebunkport, Maine and President Bush spent 1020 days - 35% of his presidency - getting away from the White House.
"Now watch this drive."
Imagine what more would have happened if he had been there every day.
that actually made me shudder.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
benefits.
Vacation Days in Office:
Carter took 79 days in 4 years.
Clinton took 152 days in 8 years.
Reagan took 866 days in 8 years.
Bush Sr. took 543 days in 4 years.
Bush Jr. took 1020 days in 8 years.
That ole' republican hard work ethic.
Vacation days I have taken in the last 8 years. 25
You need a vacation.
Fighting to keep my job right now.
I truly feel sorry for you. These times are horrible through no fault of our own. Good luck!!
Compare and constrat indeed. Don't forget getting lost in two books a week! And reading more books on 9/11.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
I thought that guy was in jail?
She is all those things but not for that reason.
they're BOTH twats!
me-oww!
One of the most media covered presidential trips of all times! Ms. Dowd reached too far to hoist Obama a little higher on her pedestal. There is more than a few photographic records of the Kennedy's attending plays in New York together and going on vacation as a family. The "rat pack" were entertainers who helped the Democrats raise money.
Arrest that man!!
I love this line where he tries to suck up to Maureen Dowd:
"I actually went to an editorial board meeting at the New York Times and wasted a couple of bucks on some flowers to give Maureen Dowd at the meeting, so that it would give her a smile on her face, and that didn't even work."
Karl, get your ass outta the 1950's, the last time that shit worked is when Ward Cleaver stayed too long at Kelsey's saloon and brought home flowers for June. I'm not the biggest fan of Dowd, but at least she had the integrity to see through this pitiful putz.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
Your comments about trips to Paris and New York and the Rat Pack raising money for the Democrats reveals a stupidity that I can't stomach. The Rayguns took many trips back to Santa Barbara, CA and other points of interest. Dubya took his numerous trips back to Crawford. Hell he spent the last year in office traveling more than he was at the White House. So what if Hollywood raises money for the democrats? The corporate prostitutes raise money for the wingnuts. There is enough of that to spread around. Movie stars usually have backgrounds from the middle America. Very few of them were born with a silver spoon in their mouth like most republicans who feel entitled to take from the middle class. KKKarl Rove is an evil thug.
She also managed to say something bad about JFK and Bubba (a bit exagerrated maybe), but it's obvious she was trying to be "fair" with her opprobrium.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Is that because no one ever caught him pissing in the Rose Garden?
me-oww!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4wcNVbYOQ
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
a mentally ill republican!
Is he talking about Cheney?
Remember the wink that Bush gave girl friday Dowd
back in 2000? That was something like a quiet
high five for a job well done on Gore in which
Dowd did her part to mock Gore about "inventing
the internet"etc. Yes, Maureen did her part to get
Cheney/Bush elected and now Rover is turning
against her. How fickle can you get?
I would think being insulted by this lying sniveling troll would be a badge of honor.
Karl Rove.
All Turd.
No Blossom.
But he is so typically ignorant. He is a coward, a cry baby coward. When you hold press and ignorantly defame others without cleaning your own sins your talk is repugnant and valueless.
Like a caged and unfed dog that builds a church in his howling,
Or a sleepy guardian of stars that leans her head against the universe,
This oath is the only decent pledge, or truth, he's ever known.
Make no motto of love that worships war
Are all Americans twisted and deranged too then knowing that Turd-Blossom is a known Gay bathroom stalker too?
Why isn't Rove in jail? I do not remember all the crimes he is suspected, but it is substantial. I know he is in contempt of Congress, for failing to honor a subpoena. This guy does not have GW and/or executive privilege to hide behind any more. And yet, he is still on TV, kicking sand in the face of everything liberal. He needs a dark cell @ Gitmo, to warn other former Bushies, to keep their mouth shut.
He bought her flowers and it didn't seem to make any difference! How sad for Karl. So now he feels, naturally, that Maureen has a "twisted, bitter little heart." It's the love pangs speaking. I hope Karl is able to recover from it and find peace with himself in a world without Maureen by his side!
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