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"Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers," Mr. Rove, the senior political adviser to President Bush, said at a fund-raiser in Midtown for the Conservative Party of New York State.

And this:

"Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year?" Mr. Rove asked. "Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals."

This was the speech that everyone on the Left remembers.

This was the speech that had normally flaccid Democratic governors and Senators finally saying Enough with this Douchebag already. That ran in every newspaper and burned up every blog.

This was the absolutely consistent pattern of The Rove Presidency from its sleazy beginning to its cataclysmic end; to cover up one catastrophic failure after another by injecting as much raw poison into the body politic as the needle would hold...and call it Governing.

And so naturally, this was the speech that Wallace conveniently forgot.

And how did Tom Brokaw handle the subject of Rove politicizing 9/11 in his Sunday Meet the Press interview?

By not mentioning it.

In any way.

At all.

Excerpted from a longer post at Driftglass.