I think that theory is stupid and offensive.
Bush is not going to let his spokesman say the conversations were thought to be in confidence if they were in fact taped with his knowledge.
This theory has been crafted by the left to explain why Bush is the same in private as he is in public. They do not like how well the tapes reflect on him and so started spinning an alternate scenario much akin to the CBS attack.
Bush, instead of being the victim of treachery (in this case a "friend" secretly taping him, in CBS the presentation of fake documents) is re-cast as the architect of pulling one over on the hapless media.
The media then becomes the victim of the machiavellian Bush administration.
What a crock.
Amazingly, Bush is always accused of being the mastermind first, but since being a mastermind doesn't jibe with being a bumbling fool, Rove becomes the default Evil Villian. None of which ever makes sense to any thinking individual.
Most leftists don't think, but allow others to do it for them. Their brain cells have completely atropheid and are therefore non-functional.
The "others" who do the thinking are only nominally able to think, having been "taught" to think in indoctrination centers, and therefore just experiencing a preprogrammed response to any set of similar circumstances. Their brain cells are partly to mostly atrophied, depending on what their base intelligence was to start with, and therefore partly to mostly functional at best.
They're all voluntarily brain damaged.