Yes, the article is meant to smear Rove, but he was the one who opened the doors for the author.
Does sirchtruth = search for the truth?
Are you 100% honest with yourself?
If you want to make people angry, lie to them. If you want to make them absolutely livid, then tell 'em the truth.
"All truth goes through three stages.
First it is ridiculed.
Then it is violently opposed.
Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
(Schopenhauer)
The masses live by, and are ruled by, subconscious and emotional thought process. The crowd has never thirsted for the truth. It turns aside from evidence that is not to its taste, preferring to glorify and to follow error, if the way of error appears attractive enough, and seduces them.
Quoting from some German philosopher that meddled in obscure Asian religions, eventhough an atheist, and was FOS, tells me much about your thinking.