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Karl Rove, a Cancer on American Politics? [Columnist Tom Friedman..........]
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Posted on 11/03/2006 1:16:46 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Karl Rove, a Cancer on American Politics? "Everyone says that Karl Rove is a genius. Yeah, right. So are cigarette companies. They get you to buy cigarettes even though we know they cause cancer. That is the kind of genius Karl Rove is."

Posted by: Clay Waters 11/3/2006 10:26:59 AM

Columnist Tom Friedman really wants the Republicans to suffer next Tuesday, judging by his Friday column (Times Select required) "Insulting Our Troops, and Out Intelligence."

"George Bush, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld think you’re stupid. Yes, they do.

"They think they can take a mangled quip about President Bush and Iraq by John Kerry -- a man who is not even running for office but who, unlike Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, never ran away from combat service -- and get you to vote against all Democrats in this election.

"Every time you hear Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney lash out against Mr. Kerry, I hope you will say to yourself, 'They must think I’m stupid.' Because they surely do."

And apparently, Karl Rove causes cancer.

"Everyone says that Karl Rove is a genius. Yeah, right. So are cigarette companies. They get you to buy cigarettes even though we know they cause cancer. That is the kind of genius Karl Rove is. He is not a man who has designed a strategy to reunite our country around an agenda of renewal for the 21st century -- to bring out the best in us. His 'genius' is taking some irrelevant aside by John Kerry and twisting it to bring out the worst in us, so you will ignore the mess that the Bush team has visited on this country.

"And Karl Rove has succeeded at that in the past because he was sure that he could sell just enough Bush cigarettes, even though people knew they caused cancer. Please, please, for our country’s health, prove him wrong this time."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2006elections; americahaters; bushhaters; drivebymedia; gopplot; karlrove; moonbats; msm; newyorktimes; rymb; tomfriedman
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To: MadIvan
On some level, they realise that living in exact harmony with their so-called principles would require moving to (or even visiting) North Korea or Cuba. But there is no Chardonnay and brie there.

True, but many of them do hold true to their principles that 'being generous', means doing so with someone else's money :-)
121 posted on 11/03/2006 5:36:16 PM PST by proud_yank (Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
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To: goldstategop

Good point. One last beltch of hate before election day.


122 posted on 11/03/2006 11:21:11 PM PST by My2Cents (The Democrat Party's '06 platform: Offering a "Suicide Pact With America.")
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To: DarthVader

Friedman is a pimple on the arse of the body politic.


123 posted on 11/03/2006 11:25:35 PM PST by My2Cents (The Democrat Party's '06 platform: Offering a "Suicide Pact With America.")
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To: Sub-Driver
His 'genius' is taking some irrelevant aside by John Kerry and twisting it to bring out the worst in us, so you will ignore the mess that the Bush team has visited on this country.

I wonder if Mr. Friedman can explain what Mr Rove's role was in all of this. I sure as hell can't see it.

124 posted on 11/03/2006 11:31:00 PM PST by Straight Vermonter
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To: Mr Rogers
"Karl Rove is supposed to advise the President on the political implications of decisions. If Karl couldn't figure out Harriet was a major flub, or that amnesty for illegals was bad, or that spending like a drunk sailor wouldn't endear the republican party to its base - then Karl is damn stupid!"

I didn't know Rove was President. Please cite where Rove approved of each of those memes.

"And I'm not harming the republican party by pointing that fact out!"

Neither am I for pointing out ill-informed malcontents.

125 posted on 11/04/2006 7:12:08 AM PST by StAnDeliver (No glass too sharp!)
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To: pollyannaish

Tom is preaching to the choir. Who else will read his blatherings. The stalinist left has been after Rove since the very first days of the Bush Presidency. Rove has the nerve to be politically savvy and win for his client! I guess he didn't get the message that only the swells at the NYT and WOP and the rest of the stalinist media know how to win.
Rove is a cancer? Friedman and his sick circle of freaks is a leperous boil.


126 posted on 11/04/2006 7:22:35 AM PST by nitejohnboy
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To: StAnDeliver
Please cite any indication Rove OPPOSED those moves.

Either he approved, or the President ignored his advice on the most important areas raised for political concern. If the former, he should be fired of incompetence. If the latter, he should be fired for irrelevance.
127 posted on 11/04/2006 7:26:13 AM PST by Mr Rogers (I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
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To: Mr Rogers

128 posted on 11/05/2006 5:41:27 PM PST by big'ol_freeper (It looks like one of those days when one nuke is just not enough-- Lt. Col. Mitchell, SG-1)
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To: Sub-Driver

I'll take Karl, the Magnificent Bastard any day over stooges like Joe Lockhart or James "I can suck a golf ball through a garden hose" Carville.


129 posted on 11/05/2006 5:43:52 PM PST by GOP_Raider (YOUR Official Mountain West/WAC correspondent of the College Football threads.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Friedman a pox on the house with a dripping pen of gonorrhea. If you are dong disease name calling
130 posted on 11/05/2006 5:44:08 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
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To: DarthVader

AMEN~~~~


131 posted on 11/05/2006 6:00:35 PM PST by jaycee
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To: Sub-Driver

Imus thinks he is the stuff. He has him on his show all the time. And then Imus will turn around and say he is a Republican. Give us a break Imass!!


132 posted on 11/05/2006 6:03:15 PM PST by jaycee
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To: DarthVader

I'm for that.


133 posted on 11/05/2006 6:05:53 PM PST by jaycee
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To: OESY

Ewww, he is uglier than usual!


134 posted on 11/05/2006 6:08:48 PM PST by jaycee
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To: Sub-Driver
Will you send me naughty pictures of yourself if I do, Johnny sweetykins?
135 posted on 11/05/2006 6:08:57 PM PST by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: Sub-Driver

Rats can get cancer too, so in a sense Friedman is right.


136 posted on 11/05/2006 6:11:15 PM PST by atomic conspiracy (Death to terrorists, death to traitors, death to (draw the obvious conclusion))
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To: Miss Marple

that's sad Miss Marple but understandable


137 posted on 11/05/2006 6:35:48 PM PST by texicali (those than can do!)
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To: Sub-Driver

5/16/06

New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman is considered by many of his media colleagues to be one of the wisest observers of international affairs. "You have a global brain, my friend," MSNBC host Chris Matthews once told Friedman (4/21/05). "You're amazing. You amaze me every time you write a book."



The Washingtonian reports that "his annual income easily reaches seven figures." In the Maryland suburbs near Washington, three years ago, "the Friedmans built a palatial 11,400-square-foot house, now valued at $9.3 million," on a parcel of more than seven acres near Bethesda Country Club and the Beltway.

Throughout his journalistic career, Friedman has been married to Ann Bucksbaum -- heiress to a real-estate and shopping-mall fortune now estimated at $2.7 billion. When the couple wed back in 1978, according to The Washingtonian article, Friedman became part of "one of the 100 richest families in the country."

David Sirota wrote at the time, "what's truly astonishing is that Tom Friedman, the person who the media most relies on to interpret trade policy, now publicly runs around admitting he actually knows nothing at all about the trade pacts he pushes in his New York Times column."

It's reasonable to ask whether Friedman -- perhaps the richest journalist in the United States -- might be less zealously evangelical for "globalization" if he hadn't been so wealthy for the last quarter of a century. Meanwhile, it's worth noting that the corporate forces avidly promoting his analysis of economic options are reaping massive profits from the systems of trade and commerce that he champions.

"Thomas Friedman is arguably the world's most influential and popular foreign-policy thinker," The Washingtonian reported. If so, he may be a prime example of the unfortunate effects of "globalization."

138 posted on 11/05/2006 6:46:15 PM PST by kcvl
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To: jaycee
Imus thinks he is the stuff. He has him on his show all the time. And then Imus will turn around and say he is a Republican. Give us a break Imass!!

Never misunderestimate the power of Rove to cloud the minds of liberals.

139 posted on 11/05/2006 7:18:27 PM PST by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese, that why I don't sing.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Rove? No.
James Carville gets my vote as one form of cancer in American politics.


140 posted on 11/05/2006 7:21:26 PM PST by kalee
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