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Rove Rage

7.19.05 @ 12:01AM

WAG-THE-PRESS
Re: Wlady Pleszczynski's Operation Overrove:

I used to think the White House political operation was genius. But after this last "Wag-the-Press" installment, it seems like it doesn't take a genius to make them speak, beg, roll over, or fetch. It's a classic Pavlovian demonstration. Again.
-- Diamon Sforza
San Diego, California

Do you suppose it is possible Rove is playing rope-a-dope with the press?

Or, in poker lingo, he holds a royal flush and has tempted his opponents to "go all in" by disguising his cards?

The always-late, always-muddled White House press staff's performance to date certainly could have facilitated a "big con" of this elegance.
-- Jameson Campaigne
Ottawa, Illinois

Rove Rage -n.- Uncontrollable feelings of anger and hatred experienced by liberals and members of the press at the mention of presidential confidant Karl Rove's name.
-- Charles Thomas
West Pittston, Pennsylvania

One would not expect Wlady or anyone else at the Spectator to get it when it comes to Karl Rove. This administration has been propped up on lies from the day it came into office, and unfortunately, their lies encourage others to lie and fabricate, and stall, and create elaborate excuses for the immoral ambiance that has been forced upon us. The facts condemning Karl Rove are indisputable and immutable. They are there, and he should re-sign. In the meantime, it would behoove this magazine, always on the wrong side of everything to find some other line of work.
-- MLM

Your article about the frantic piranha feeding in Washington over Karl Rove is amazing. It would be amusing if we weren't at war. It goes to prove that once a politician leaves his/her home state and moves to the Beltway, they lose their grounding and common sense.

We lived in D.C. area for four years due to military assignment. I flew home to my Dad's Texas ranch about 4-5 times a year and would just walk for miles on the ranch to regain my equilibrium. The day we left the Washington area the Washington Post had a comic strip of two sad sack characters called Frank and Ernest. That day they had the two standing at a crossroads. The sign above them read Washington, D.C. pointing one way, while the other sign said "To the rest of the world" pointing the opposite way.

It is time that Beltway folks get out to the rest of the world and see what we are really worried about. It wouldn't be any overblown and totally "non" affair concerning Karl Rove!
-- Beverly Gunn

It appears that the mainstream media and the new media are at the fulcrum of power over who gets to tell America what's happening. A theory that fits the known facts of the Plame Affair and explains other questions is that [Joseph] Wilson, Democrat operatives, Time, and the New York Times were engaged in an effort to extend the proposition that Bush had lied about Niger uranium and WMD in general, and were trying to set up the Administration to be guilty of exacting revenge on Wilson for acting as messenger. At the last moment the Time executive blinked, backing out of the plan and leaving the NYT and Judith Miller holding the bag. This would explain Cooper's lame story that his last minute decision to testify came because he received a release from his source which he already had for more than a year and Miller's refusal to testify because she would not reveal unknown sources one of which, Rove, had already released her from. The special prosecutor probably sees the outline of this battle between MSM and new media, and may view aggressive behavior by MSM resulting in the investigation as a complaint with a false premise and the stance of the NYT and Miller as obstruction of justice.
-- Howard Lohmuller
Seabrook, Texas

I thought Rove released all the reporters who talked to him about the leak case weeks before this three-ring circus. I wonder what all the theatrics are about.
-- Annette Cwik

UNIQUE COVERAGE
Re: John Connly Walsh's Flying the Carpet with Captain Ayad:

I have been following with great interest and amusement the dispatches of John Connly Walsh. His folksy writing style has the shining ring of truth concerning progress in Iraq. I've seen this nowhere else. Mr. Walsh, sir, would you be interested in starting a television news network when your work in Iraq is complete?

Keep it coming!!!
-- Steve Stelzer
Labadie, Missouri

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