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Rove Rage
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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.
p>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! br> — Beverly Gunn /p> p> 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
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