Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Bush aide sensed 'Nazi' mood(Woodward: Rove said that 'W" at World Series was like a Nazi Rally)
nypost ^ | November 16, 2002 | By RICHARD JOHNSON with Paula Froelich and Chris Wilson

Posted on 11/16/2002 5:19:44 AM PST by KQQL

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:10:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

PRESIDENTIAL adviser Karl Rove and other members of George W. Bush's administration will have to go into heavy spin control when Bob Woodward's muckraking "Bush at War" hits the stores next week.

The Washington Post reporter was given unheard-of access to top White House aides for the upcoming Simon & Schuster tome, but loose-lipped insiders may soon regret their candor. Excerpts obtained by the Drudge Report contain some of Woodward's revelations.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-115 next last
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Oops, Lay = DeLay.
41 posted on 11/16/2002 6:52:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: Miss Marple
Time for our bookstore 'strategery'? Hmmm?
42 posted on 11/16/2002 6:52:56 AM PST by Fracas
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: lizma
Exactly, if Rove thought the WS was like a Nazi rally, then the Wellstone thing was a ceremony to bring the anit-christ.
43 posted on 11/16/2002 6:55:04 AM PST by rintense
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: lizma
>Obviously he missed the Wellstone "memorial". (That "We will win" chant sent shivers up my spine. Very spooky)

In MN some called the Wellstone rally, 'the rally at Nuremberg' and for good reason.

44 posted on 11/16/2002 6:58:49 AM PST by Dialup Llama
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: MWS
I saw him throw out that pitch and there was nothing remotely 'nazi-like' about it. It was a warm, loving greeting -- from New Yorkers! It was followed by pride that our pres could fire a strike to the plate rather than bouncing it up there like so many first pitch tossers do.
45 posted on 11/16/2002 6:59:17 AM PST by johnb838
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: Miss Marple
Why do you think Woodward's book didn't appear a month ago, so that the media could trumpet it during the last couple of weeks before the election?
46 posted on 11/16/2002 7:03:37 AM PST by aristeides
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: johnb838
Very true!

Like I said, this is all part of the Democratic strategy for regaining power. Interestingly enough, the strategy is far more Nazi-like than that pitch ever could have been. They use Goebbels propaganda strategy of the big lie, repeated frequently and loudly. It is what they have used in the past, certainly... but, now we must prepare to see it used in ways that puts all past big lies to shame.

47 posted on 11/16/2002 7:03:41 AM PST by MWS
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: Fracas
Double strategy: replace Woodward's book with Sammon's.
48 posted on 11/16/2002 7:05:22 AM PST by Miss Marple
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: Howlin
I'd love to read that thread again, if anyone can remember the title. I remember cracking up when the fans did NOT boo, as Peter Jennings expected. Bwahaha!
49 posted on 11/16/2002 7:05:46 AM PST by hellinahandcart
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Lee'sGhost
The comparison of the wellstone rally to Nazism is the only valid one. The reason people would get so hysterical at hitler's rallies is that he was a charismatic speaker who would work them up into a frenzy like an old-time revival. To compare W to that is ridiculous -- his speeches are almost unemotional compared to that. Dubya's speeches are full of quiet determination. What I usually come away with from his best speeches are "This is not a threat, it's a promise".
50 posted on 11/16/2002 7:06:19 AM PST by johnb838
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Semper Paratus
From the Godfather and so so true in so many instances!
51 posted on 11/16/2002 7:08:01 AM PST by PhiKapMom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: aristeides
My theory is that this has nothing to do with mid-term elections (which the democrats thought they would win anyway) and everything to do with the election in 2004.

Step one: Get rid of Rove.
Step two: Cause a fight with Colin Powell, so that he leaves the administration and the Rats can cry "racism."
Step three: Hint that Bush knew.

Voila: Hillary steps in to save the day!

However, if I can see this plan, out here in the Midwest, I am certain that the President and Karl Rove are well aware of it. They are always about 3 steps ahead of the Rats anyway. I will enjoy watching yet another futile attempt to attack the President.

52 posted on 11/16/2002 7:09:35 AM PST by Miss Marple
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: vbmoneyspender
the only thing that is surprising about Woodward's book is that he failed to include an interview with Osama in the book

Look for "Deep Turban".

53 posted on 11/16/2002 7:09:54 AM PST by eddie willers
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Miss Marple
I'd add one more tactic: Point to Tom DeLay, now House Majority Leader, as a VRWC, racist manipulator. (It's already begun.)
54 posted on 11/16/2002 7:23:47 AM PST by browardchad
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: JZoback
If Rove and Bush gave Woodward access to anything then they need their heads examined. This maggot is a Dem. hit man. The whole Watergate "Deepthroat" source was a made up fantasy they rode to fame.
55 posted on 11/16/2002 7:25:23 AM PST by willyone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Semper Paratus
I prefer Clemenza's less-subtle approach:

"Leave the gun. Take the cannolis."
56 posted on 11/16/2002 7:26:15 AM PST by hellinahandcart
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Lee'sGhost
How can anyone equate a Yankee game with a Hitler rally? Woodward has some serious mental problems.
57 posted on 11/16/2002 7:31:04 AM PST by willyone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Bubba_Leroy
Wow, isn't Woodward amazing?

Hell, he got a long interview with Bill Casey a week after he was brain dead. It should be no problem for him to read Carl Rove's mind.

58 posted on 11/16/2002 7:31:06 AM PST by Ditto
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: MWS
Bob Woodward wouldn't know a Nazi if he saw him in the mirror!
59 posted on 11/16/2002 7:33:29 AM PST by tet68
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: KQQL
Yaaaaaaaaawwwn....

Woodward's been trying to extend his 15 minutes since he flashed in the pan back during the Nixon Administration.

He mistakes the adulation of his fellow "journalists" for stature, unable to understand that being king of the intellectual and moral morons is no honor.

Maybe Woodward and Harry Belafonte could get up an act together.

60 posted on 11/16/2002 7:33:47 AM PST by Savage Beast
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-115 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson