Karl Rove: the real story [Garrison Keillor... commie yarn-spinner]

Tribune Media Sources ^ | JULY 21, 2005 | By Garrison Keillor

[johnny7]

ST. PAUL, Minnesota I feel it's time for me to step forward and tell what I know about Karl Rove's conversation with columnist Robert Novak in which Novak reportedly told Rove that CIA operative Valerie Plame had been responsible for her husband Joseph Wilson going to Niger to debunk the White House's claim that Saddam Hussein was shopping for uranium in Africa to make nuclear weapons and that's why America invaded Iraq, and Rove said, "Yes, I've heard that, too."

[johnny7]

Keillor is like Al Franken on animal tranquilizers.

[1Old Pro]

Someone ought to tell the commie libs and the media that this story was dead last week and that it was buried with the Roberts nomination.

[ElCapusto]

I feel it's time for me to step forward...

Why?

What a boring bag of wind is this sorry excuse for an entertainer and author.

Woe-begone!

[gridlock]

I think they need to work on Keillor's medication again. Something is seriously out of whack...

[darkwing104]

Keillor is so full of hubris that he sounds like a clueless idiot. Just an old pathetic c-list has-been.

[massgopguy]

That was incoherent. Get his car keys.

[darkwing104]

Just an NPR way of saying he is full of himself...

[AbeKrieger]

That is one hilarious article. Why, it ran the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Please insert ball of sweat socks.

[Richard Axtell]

Keillor was trying to be funny, and fails. Because he doesn't "get it", he has inadvertently made fun of the idiots that set the agenda for his side... namely MoveOn.org.Dean.Soros.Moore.comm... unist. They are the ones floating stale and ridiculous conspiracy nonsense that Keillor is trying to lampoon, unsuccessfully. Keillor just doesn't get it, and never will. At least he is better looking than Rosie O'Donnell.

[johnny7]

THERE IS NO STORY!

This is a botched, media ambush that's left a blood-trail right back to their base of operations. They can't break off contact and are now fully committed.

As usual... a full disclosure of this incident will never be given.

[WestTexasWend]

This is what you get when a lib tries to get laughs without using bad language...

[Polyxene]

Keillor, et al., better stop beating this dead horse or the PETA people will start beating on them!

[johnny7]

Hey newbie... where'd 'ya come up with that screen-name?

[ladiesview61]

This guy is so out of touch with reality it isn't even funny. He's a bore and he's living in a shell.

[Cyber Ninja]

Keillor used to be funny. Now he is just a Clymer.

[sportutegrl]

Kellior is an NPR Liberal, and this colum is a stupid attempt at humor, but this nugget is telling,

But that is neither here nor there. The question is: Did Karl Rove reveal Valerie Plame's identity? He did not. His "I've heard that, too" was an attempt to seem cool and informed whereas he was as bewildered as anybody else.

In other words, Karl did not 'out' Secret Agent Ma'am.

[sportutegrl]

colum = column

[Semper Paratus]

Him, KO and Korn and the only ones left flogging this.

[joylyn]

The whole point of Keillor's work is that he is a small town guy from a fundamentalist family who escaped to the big city to become a writer. Despite all the nostalgia and humor there is a deep streak of anger and resentment over the small-mindedness -- as he sees it -- of the hometown folks. This makes for some very good fiction. (He is often right about the limitations of the prairie point of view.) Unfortunately, when it comes to politics he is a dolt, who has spent way too much time rubbing shoulders with public radio supporters and other pretentious types.