I didn't notice that until you pointed it out. The quotation marks in the article are quoting Woodward, not Rove.
What Woodward wrote is: "Watching from owner George Steinbrenner's box, Karl Rove thought, it's like being at a Nazi rally." In other words, Woodward isn't even claiming to quote anything Rove said. He is claiming to quote what Rove thought. Wow, isn't Woodward amazing? No wonder he is such a great reporter. He can read minds!
Hell, he got a long interview with Bill Casey a week after he was brain dead. It should be no problem for him to read Carl Rove's mind.
ATTN: Media Lurkers (we know you're here)
When you interview The Great Carnac, and you will, will you ask him why he treats us to his speculations as fact? As background, will you ask him if this is the same "expertise" he used to get information from a comatose Casey?
We are watching and we are judging your own credibility. It's already just about as comatose as Casey was...
I didn't notice that until you pointed it out. The quotation marks in the article are quoting Woodward, not Rove.
What Woodward wrote is: "Watching from owner George Steinbrenner's box, Karl Rove thought, it's like being at a Nazi rally." In other words, Woodward isn't even claiming to quote anything Rove said. He is claiming to quote what Rove thought. Wow, isn't Woodward amazing? No wonder he is such a great reporter. He can read minds!
Wasn't Bob Woodward the Washington Post Editor who fired the African-American, female reporter for writing a false series of columns? Columns that were created out of whole cloth and had no basis in fact?
I remember when the comparison of her transgressions and his "interview" with William Casey were compared, he and the Washington Post seem to feel much less support for the African-American, female reporter than for white bread, limo-liberal Bob Woodward.
Or maybe I am just looking at this through my own prism, as Katie Couric would pontificate.