Karl Rove Lacks Courage, Flees Consequence

Karl Rove claims in his memoir to have been traumatized as a child by a mean Kennedy supporting-girl who knocked him over as a kid because of his sticker for Nixon, among 0ther assertions that challenge credulity.  Those shrill shrews at Code Pink should have been much more considerate in light of Karl Rove’s fear of girls (hmm) when they tried to perform a citizen’s arrest.

As asinine as these shenanigans may amount to, what matters is that clearly Karl cares, and is perennially unnerved by being called out.  To read his historical revisions and wishful talking points, it becomes apparent that Rove really does live a perpetual lie, constantly buttressing it with over explanation.  Look at him panic when that lady with the floppy pink sunhat waves her arm in a bingo-like fashion.

Rove went so far as to single out the independent investigative journalist (and, in disclosure, my friend) Jason Leopold at Truthout.org, founder of The Public Record, author of the gripping memoir News Junkie, and reporter who rode Rove’s ass through the Bush years.  Devoting a page of his life to a guy most people would not even know about? In a book about which conservative David Frum said you could do a history of the Bush White House based on what Rove left out in his memoir?  Rove has paid more tribute to Jason and his work than anyone else could.  Congratulations, Leopold!