Posted on 11/03/2006 1:16:46 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Karl Rove, a Cancer on American Politics? "Everyone says that Karl Rove is a genius. Yeah, right. So are cigarette companies. They get you to buy cigarettes even though we know they cause cancer. That is the kind of genius Karl Rove is."
Posted by: Clay Waters 11/3/2006 10:26:59 AM
Columnist Tom Friedman really wants the Republicans to suffer next Tuesday, judging by his Friday column (Times Select required) "Insulting Our Troops, and Out Intelligence."
"George Bush, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld think you’re stupid. Yes, they do.
"They think they can take a mangled quip about President Bush and Iraq by John Kerry -- a man who is not even running for office but who, unlike Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, never ran away from combat service -- and get you to vote against all Democrats in this election.
"Every time you hear Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney lash out against Mr. Kerry, I hope you will say to yourself, 'They must think I’m stupid.' Because they surely do."
And apparently, Karl Rove causes cancer.
"Everyone says that Karl Rove is a genius. Yeah, right. So are cigarette companies. They get you to buy cigarettes even though we know they cause cancer. That is the kind of genius Karl Rove is. He is not a man who has designed a strategy to reunite our country around an agenda of renewal for the 21st century -- to bring out the best in us. His 'genius' is taking some irrelevant aside by John Kerry and twisting it to bring out the worst in us, so you will ignore the mess that the Bush team has visited on this country.
"And Karl Rove has succeeded at that in the past because he was sure that he could sell just enough Bush cigarettes, even though people knew they caused cancer. Please, please, for our country’s health, prove him wrong this time."
Good point. One last beltch of hate before election day.
Friedman is a pimple on the arse of the body politic.
I wonder if Mr. Friedman can explain what Mr Rove's role was in all of this. I sure as hell can't see it.
I didn't know Rove was President. Please cite where Rove approved of each of those memes.
"And I'm not harming the republican party by pointing that fact out!"
Neither am I for pointing out ill-informed malcontents.
Tom is preaching to the choir. Who else will read his blatherings. The stalinist left has been after Rove since the very first days of the Bush Presidency. Rove has the nerve to be politically savvy and win for his client! I guess he didn't get the message that only the swells at the NYT and WOP and the rest of the stalinist media know how to win.
Rove is a cancer? Friedman and his sick circle of freaks is a leperous boil.
I'll take Karl, the Magnificent Bastard any day over stooges like Joe Lockhart or James "I can suck a golf ball through a garden hose" Carville.
AMEN~~~~
Imus thinks he is the stuff. He has him on his show all the time. And then Imus will turn around and say he is a Republican. Give us a break Imass!!
I'm for that.
Ewww, he is uglier than usual!
Rats can get cancer too, so in a sense Friedman is right.
that's sad Miss Marple but understandable
5/16/06
New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman is considered by many of his media colleagues to be one of the wisest observers of international affairs. "You have a global brain, my friend," MSNBC host Chris Matthews once told Friedman (4/21/05). "You're amazing. You amaze me every time you write a book."
The Washingtonian reports that "his annual income easily reaches seven figures." In the Maryland suburbs near Washington, three years ago, "the Friedmans built a palatial 11,400-square-foot house, now valued at $9.3 million," on a parcel of more than seven acres near Bethesda Country Club and the Beltway.
Throughout his journalistic career, Friedman has been married to Ann Bucksbaum -- heiress to a real-estate and shopping-mall fortune now estimated at $2.7 billion. When the couple wed back in 1978, according to The Washingtonian article, Friedman became part of "one of the 100 richest families in the country."
David Sirota wrote at the time, "what's truly astonishing is that Tom Friedman, the person who the media most relies on to interpret trade policy, now publicly runs around admitting he actually knows nothing at all about the trade pacts he pushes in his New York Times column."
It's reasonable to ask whether Friedman -- perhaps the richest journalist in the United States -- might be less zealously evangelical for "globalization" if he hadn't been so wealthy for the last quarter of a century. Meanwhile, it's worth noting that the corporate forces avidly promoting his analysis of economic options are reaping massive profits from the systems of trade and commerce that he champions.
"Thomas Friedman is arguably the world's most influential and popular foreign-policy thinker," The Washingtonian reported. If so, he may be a prime example of the unfortunate effects of "globalization."
Imus thinks he is the stuff. He has him on his show all the time. And then Imus will turn around and say he is a Republican. Give us a break Imass!!
Never misunderestimate the power of Rove to cloud the minds of liberals.
Rove? No.
James Carville gets my vote as one form of cancer in American politics.
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