Posted on 04/23/2007 12:35:41 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
I just got an eyewitness account of the Karl Rove-Laurie David-Sheryl Crow encounter at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night, and it suggests that David and Crow were a bit more confrontational than they portrayed themselves in their own account of the incident, published in the Huffington Post. In their story, David and Crow write, "The 'highlight' of the evening had to be when we were introduced to Karl Rove. How excited were we to have our first opportunity ever to talk directly to the Bush Administration about global warming."
The eyewitness says the person who introduced David to Rove was the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. I want you to meet Laurie David, Dowd said to Rove. (These are all approximate recollections, so no quotation marks.) Dowd said David would like to say hello.
According to David and Crow, the encounter began with a polite request. "We asked Mr. Rove if he would consider taking a fresh look at the science of global warming," they write. "Much to our dismay, he immediately got combative. And it went downhill from there."
The eyewitness remembers it a bit differently. Immediately after Dowd's introduction, the witness says, David began lecturing Rove about global warming. This administration has done nothing on the issue, she told Rove. We face a crisis. The time to act is now. This administration has done nothing…
At that point, Rove broke in to say, Well, actually we have done something. Rove mentioned global climate research, at which point David broke in herself to say, You just don't understand. All these questions have been answered. That's worthless. That's useless.
In their account, David and Crow write, "We reminded the senior White House advisor that the U.S. leads the world in global warming pollution and we are doing the least about it. Anger flaring, Mr. Rove immediately regurgitated the official Administration position on global warming which is that the US spends more on researching the causes than any other country."
The eyewitness says Rove asked David if she had read the IPCC report, referring to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which, while confirming a human role in climate change, substantially undermines some of the most catastrophic charges made in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," which David produced. David said she had read the report. "We felt compelled to remind him that the research is done and the results [the IPCC report] are in," David and Crow write. "Mr. Rove exploded with even more venom. Like a spoiled child throwing a tantrum, Mr. Rove launched into a series of illogical arguments regarding China not doing enough thus neither should we. (Since when do we follow China's lead?)"
In the eyewitness' version, again, David and Crow are a bit more aggressive than their own story suggests. The eyewitness says David told Rove, You need to bring in new people to tell you the truth. Rove mentioned Dr. John Marburger, the White House science advisor. At that point, according to the eyewitness, Crow began poking Rove's chest with her finger, demanding to know what corporations were underwriting Marburger's work. Rove said Marburger had been in academia most of his career.
With Crow jabbing him in the chest, Rove turned to take his seat. Then, the witness says, Crow grabbed his arm. A few more words were exchanged, and it was over. At the Huffington Post, David and Crow described the ending this way: "In his attempt to dismiss us, Mr. Rove turned to head toward his table, but as soon as he did so, Sheryl reached out to touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, 'Don't touch me.' How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow? Unfazed, Sheryl abruptly responded, 'You can't speak to us like that, you work for us.' Karl then quipped, 'I don't work for you, I work for the American people.' To which Sheryl promptly reminded him, 'We are the American people.'"
In light of the eyewitness' account, another way of saying it might be, How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be jabbed in the chest by Sheryl Crow?
Rove’s retort “I work for the American people” is just stupid. If this were true, he would be fired considering “the American people’s” majority opinion of the Administration. Plus, it invites an arguement with someone who believes they are an “American people.” Not a good retort.
More accurately, Rove works for the President no matter what the “American People” think about him or his boss.
He should have told Poopy-Fingers he worked for the President and she should take up her issues directly with him.
Actually, that should say,
“Let’s DON’T roll”
or judging by the idiocy she has been spewing,
“Let’s roll.....another doobie.”
“How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow?”
Considering that Crow is a single tissue wiper, I wouldn’t want her touching me either.
“How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow?”
Considering that Crow is a single tissue wiper, I wouldn’t want her touching me either.
I would tell her to take her slimy hands of me too. Who the hell is sherillll crow anyway? A guitar player? So are a lot of others only they have manners, respect and class. Good for Rove. Once again these women want to be on the front lines with all the men UNTIL they step over the line and then the man treats them equally by saying somethihng they don’t like...then they revert back to being the “woman” they never seem to like in the first place. I wouldn’t want sherillll crows dirty hands on me either. Look at what she just suggested about the one square of bathroom tissue. Yuk. GO CARL. Ya just put down two nobodies.
just has to start using only 1 square of toilet paper per sitting! He and all Republicans.... 
must do their part!
Otherwise... 
we Liberals will run out of toilet paper!
I agree totally... 
with Sheryl Crow!
That’s... 
my gal!
Gadzooks! I need 10 squares of toilet paper... 
just to blow my nose!
Hey Sheryl! Wipe... 
this!
What in Sam Hill... 
is that brown stuff on their fingers?
Down here in Texas... 
we call it sheee-iiit.
Sheryl Crow? Yeah, I know the bitch... 
her tail ain't with smelling, much less wiping!
Film... 
at 11!
yuk...what does appearing in a bikini have to do with a concert? She is sure needy isn’t she??? Wow. feel sorry for her. I actually have pity for her. Hasbeen tryin’ for a comeback.
Reminds me of that mag cover with clintin...remember? Disgusting people with even more disgusting actions and behaviors. They have real issues. Pathetic they are. We should all feel nothing but PITY for them. Besides...yuk.
As an entertainer Sheryl too “works for the American people”
So we say STFU and stop grabbing people who don’t know you or care for your rants.
You nailed it! I was hoping someone would bring that up. Note to Sheryl Crowe—DON’T TOUCH ME . . . EVER!
Hell maybe it’s Rove himself. He has as much right to get his side out as the two moonbats.
Can you blame them?
If these girls can squeak by with “one square” I’m guessing they’re just a bit on the “tight” side?
I’m just saying,...!
Well, she has the “well-used slut” look down pat. I wonder what else she has down pat. Look like a slut, act like a slut. Or am I to recall that all ladies sit a chair like that?
Thanks for the pic. The only thing seperating her from the demi-monde is that she still has her pants on! A pathetic pose from a pathetic woman.
Oh, that’s right, when men lowered their standards during the sexual revolution. Thirty years later I guess you can see you get what you pay for; wasn’t feminism a wonderful idea - pardon me while I puke!
Oh, that’s right, when men lowered their standards during the sexual revolution. Thirty years later I guess you can see you get what you pay for; wasn’t feminism a wonderful idea - pardon me while I puke!
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