“We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!” –Karl Rove
Republicans know how to take down a threat. Remember Andrea Mackris? They didn’t call her Bill O’Reilly’s producer. They called her a “low level” employee. The troops following orders who debased prisoners and themselves under the direction of the White House and Pentagon were called a few bad eggs and a few bad apples. Senator John Kerry, a decorated war hero, was swiftboated in the 2004 campaign. His service was peddled to the public as exactly the opposite of what was true. Senator John McCain adopted a baby from Mother Teresa’s Orphanage, and Karl Rove spread rumors that McCain had an illegitimate black baby with a prostitute.
Now Rove is saying a Republican attorney from Alabama is “a complete lunatic.”
GQ Magazine provided the platform for Rove which is weird since Karl Rove is the definitive anti-gentleman. But I guess there is no Character Assassin Quarterly which would be eminently more suitable.
So, Karl Rove says Jill Simpson is a “complete lunatic” even though he claims he has never met her or has no recollection of having met her.
Yet, it’s Jill Simpson who has been willing to subject herself to sworn testimony. Not Karl Rove. And during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Don Siegelman case in October 2007, it was Simpson who provided proof of her Republican connections via phone records.
Rove’s records have been hidden, lost, and subjected to no scrutiny ever. Who is the person with something to hide? Who is the person trying to distort the public’s perception of reality? Who has lied before (cf. John McCain campaign in 2000)?
The Legal Schnauzer via Wayne Madsen points to at least one lie in the GQ article. Rove says of Simpson:
Now she says that she talked to me on the phone and she’s got phone records. Of calls to Washington and Virginia. But what’s Virginia? I don’t live in Virginia. And it’s 2001. What is in Virginia? It’s not the Bush headquarters; that was in Austin, Texas. What is in Virginia? So—but look, she’s a loon.”
In the interview, Rove falsely claims that Bush-Cheney Transition headquarters was in Austin, Texas in January 2001 when it was, in fact, in an office in McLean, Virginia that was formerly used by Dick Cheney as a Halliburton office.”
This is not “Rove said, Whoever Said.” On December 14, 2000 Eileen O’Connor reported for CNN from the Bush-Cheney transition headquarters in McLean, Virginia.
Filed under: Karl Rove, Law, News Headlines, Politics, Slime, justice | Tagged: ad hominem, Corruption, Department of Justice, GQ, Siegelman, Simpson
good post.
At this point, I think this sort of behavior is a ritual for them. They’ve already proven they can break the law with impunity and no one’s going to prosecute them. No one believes what he says, except 20 percent or so who will believe it just because he said it. And he knows no one believes him.
What gets me is that after everything that’s gone on, GQ either can’t or won’t check a fact.
That’s been the most frustrating thing about this administration. They consider “You can’t prove it.” as a dispositive statement and they’ve gotten away with it. In the rare occasion when they need a little something more, there’s “What are you gonna do about it?”
Yes, as the previous two comments point out, this cabal has perfected “The Bart Simpson Defense” – I didn’t do it … nobody saw me … you can’t prove it.
As zenyenta points out, that defense is inevitably followed by “So what?’ on the rare occasion any of them is ever pressed on an issue. Then, because their intransigence has let the question linger for so long, they declare “this is old news” with a wave of the hand. It’s good work if you can get it.
Question: where does the quote attributed to Rove in the caption by his picture come from?
Am enjoying your site.
Suzanne
(a.k.a. “Just Wondering”)
(WriteChic Press: Hi, Suzanne. The quote comes from Ron Suskind’s article Why Are These Men Laughing which is well worth the read if you’re interested in a raw look at Rove.
And you’re right on target with your Bart Simpson defense assessment. That’s the brute intellectual force of the Bush administration…which just shows us that you don’t have to be intelligent in this administration, just clever and cunning. )
The reason this administration has been able to get away with everything is because news organizations don’t check their facts. Dissent is surpressed.
THANK YOU
(From WriteChic Press–Of course, I have no way to verify if this is really you, Ms. Simpson. However, if it is you, you’re very welcome. In the CBS 60 Minutes interview, I thought, they messed with the wrong lady. You came off as very meticulous.)
Go over to Google Videos and watch “Cocaine Cowboys” the whole way through. Pay close attention towards the end. The character “John” , a huge cocaine dealer, reveals something very cogent to this post and discussion: he was a huge Republican contributor in his cashed-up days.
If you want to know what happened to all those white-boy, middle to upper class cocaine dealers who didn’t get busted back in the 70’s to 90’s…well, they went to the Republican Party, where their ruthlessness was a beautiful fit. As was their millions.
Eek. Remember Trainspotting? When that character cleaned up in the end and headed out to society, it terrified me as much as the rest of the flick.
Simpson should sue Rove/GQ immediately for defamation
It may go nowhere but it’s really the only way to not let things like this go unanswered.
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