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9.17.04 @ 12:01AM

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That Karl Rove sure is a mad genius. Who else could produce phony memos deriding Bush, copy them 12 or so times, then turn around and fax the copies to CBS, knowing they'd be used by Dan Rather in a "60 Minutes II" hit piece? He's about 5 or 6 steps ahead of everyone else. Glad he's on our side.
-- Joel Natzke
Kansas City, Missouri

It didn't take long for someone to blame Karl Rove and an insidious conspiracy for the stupidity of the Kerry campaign and Rather/CBS. I am in complete agreement. No doubt Rove also planned for Kerry to have Tour of Duty written along with the biography by the Boston Globe reporters, card-carrying members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. He also tricked Kerry into basing his entire political life on Vietnam. A brilliant stroke was having the Kerry website claim a Senate position actually held by Bob Kerrey. But what I'd really like to know is how he has gotten a talented and powerful Clinton/DNC, with proven crisis-handling ability, to stand on the sidelines and look incompetent.
-- George Marks
Providence, Rhode Island

Ms. Harris: In a word... yes!!!

Your parroting (blathering) Democrat talking points is proof of the pudding. Apparently when those of your ilk cannot blame America first, Karl Rove is automatically nominated to take the heat. My advice? Get a life -- try to investigate the real world rather than MSM drivel.
-- C.D. Lueders
Boca Raton, Florida

I do not often write to websites nor do I often become politically involved in matters. I usually try to stay out of such fervent issues because I have long since realized that you can never change people's minds. It's the brain's defense mechanism which causes these false decisions to be made and only long bouts of therapy, or the awakening of oneself to suppress the id, can cause a person to change their mind. It's the sole reason why we have 80% of the voting population who vote the same way during every election. With that being said, I do have an opinion and feel like I should express it on the letter by Ms. Harris.

She is spot on with her accusation of Karl Rove being behind the dubious forged documents. It isn't the first time he has done this and it won't be the last time. In 1986, he found a bug he planted in Bill Clements' office and blamed the Democrat, Mark White; it worked and Clements became governor. In the '70s he did the same thing. The documents can be traced back to a fax number at a Kinko's in Texas; this should give you some idea of where they came from.

All you have to do is look at how this election is going and you can see the genius of Mr. Rove. He has the uncanny ability to dupe the American public into thinking that Rather planted the documents and that there's a liberal bias at the same time. It's a master stroke DaVinci would be proud of. They won't be able to trace the documents back to Karl Rove, because they were faxed from a Kinko's in Texas. It's a brilliant move by a brilliant man, this isn't a conspiracy theory but it is politics being played out on a grand level for all to see, you just have to take your face out of the mud to see it.
-- Mike

I nominate Pamela Harris for the "Jennyass of the Year Award" in recognition of her letter to you stating that Karl Rove is responsible for the forged documents that CBS is still stonewalling about. Yes, indeed, Karl Rove is an evil person, although she hasn't a single specific incident to cite to support that canard. Presumably she would not be paranoid if evil Republicans weren't out to get her!
-- W. B. Heffernan, Jr.

When I finished laughing (and I spent a great deal of time doing that), I realized that Ms. Harris is a Dan Rather acolyte of the first order. It had to be Karl Rove because there is absolutely no evidence, not a shred, pointing to him. We all know that he is so clever that he would do something like this and leave not a trace pointing back to him. That lack of evidence proves it! This scenario, including Ms. Harris letter, far outstrips anything that Orwell, or even Vonnegut could come up with. Kudos to Ms. Harris for the magnificence of her illogical logic.
-- Joseph Baum
Newton Falls, Ohio

In her letter to the editor, Ms. Harris claims the trail of blame for the false documents of Blathergate leads logically to the President. Although, I have to admit, she had me inclined to accept her scenario as a possibility until I realized that if that was the case, CBS and Rather would be fervently screaming their sources name and links to the Republican Party from every microphone they could find! It doesn't make sense that they would protect their source, unless it could be linked to Democratic circles. Here's my own conspiracy theory. I believe Ms. Harris to be not an avid reader, but a plant from the Kerry campaign or CBS (same thing?) trying to obscure reality. OR maybe she and Swiss Miffed are really the same person?! I thought long and hard about it and it makes sense. Given there's only about 200 conservatives in the whole state of Massachusetts, she must have a Democratically-based motive to suggest that Spectator doesn't tell the truth. Proof? It fits the demographics of the state and the timing is right, so it must be true! Unless someone can prove otherwise: I stand behind that.
-- Frank Novio
Mansfield, Massachusetts

She believes it is a right wing conspiracy. Wow. I see she does not live in the real world.
-- Rich Corcoran
Salem, Massachusetts

Miss Harris: You neglect one vital point. Dan Rather knows where those memos came from and is protecting the source. He would NEVER do that if the source was remotely connected to the Bush campaign. If the president or Karl Rove were involved, you'd be seeing headlines and newsflashes about it.

No, Dan Rather's silence as to the source leaves the only conclusion that the memos were leaked by Kerry's campaign and Rather is protecting that campaign from further implosion.

By the way, your intense distrust of Karl Rove has nothing to do with the fact that you are from Boston, Massachusetts, does it?
-- Charles Garman
Omaha, Nebraska

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