fredag 13 april 2007

Någonstans i Vita Huset

Det blåser snålt i Distriktet; våren vill inte till sig och epitetet ’byigt’ har sällan känts mer träffande.

Även metaforiska vindar blåser över nationens huvudstad. Detta är visserligen vardagsmat i den politiska smältdegel som är Washington D.C. Men nu verkar det som att kanske, möjligen, eventuellt en kall liten vindil till sist trängt sig genom det annars så kompakta vindskydd presidentens go-to kille Karl ’MC’ Rove de senaste sju åren hukat sig i.

Historien är lång och invecklad och inte fokus för detta inlägg. Istället vill jag ta tillfället i akt att, med Wikipedias hjälp, låta er lära denne spin-guru lite närmare.


Jag ger er:

Karl Rove, We hardly know you:


Karl Rove, barnet:
In 1960, at the age of nine, Rove decided to support Richard Nixon

Karl Rove, följeslagaren:
In November 1973, Bush [d.ä.] asked Rove to take a set of car keys to his son George W. Bush, who was visiting home during a break from Harvard Business School. It was the first time the two met. "Huge amounts of charisma, swagger, cowboy boots, flight jacket, wonderful smile, just charisma - you know, wow", Rove recalled years later.

On 19 January 2005, Rove said George W. Bush was "one of the most intellectually gifted presidents we've had."

Karl Rove, kampanjarbetaren:
In the fall of 1970, Rove used a false identity to enter the campaign office of Democrat Alan J. Dixon, who was running for Illinois State Treasurer, and stole 1000 sheets of paper with campaign letterhead. Rove then printed fake campaign rally fliers promising "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing", and distributed them at rock concerts and homeless shelters, with the effect of disrupting Dixon's rally (Dixon eventually won the election).

In 1986, just before a crucial debate in campaign, Rove claimed that his office had been bugged by Democrats. The police and FBI investigated and discovered that the bug's battery was so small that it needed to be changed every few hours, and the investigation was dropped. Critics suspected Rove had bugged his own office to garner sympathy votes in the close governor's race

Rove has been accused of using supposed pollsters to call voters to ask such things as whether people would be "more or less likely to vote for Governor Richards if [they] knew her staff is dominated by lesbians."

During the bitterly-contested 2000 Republican primary, allegations were made that Rove was responsible for a South Carolina push poll that used racist innuendo intended to undermine the support of Bush rival John McCain: "Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?"

Karl Rove, älskaren:
En reporter som i väntan på en intervju med Karl utanför dennes kontor snappade genom väggen upp det bevingade citatet: “We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!”

Karl Rove, postmodernisten:
En krönikör sammanfattade 2004 Roves ontologiska och epistemologiska ställningstaganden: “All politicians operate within an Orwellian nimbus where words don't mean what they normally mean, but Rovism posits that there is no objective, verifiable reality at all. Reality is what you say it is” (Neal Gabler, Los Angeles Times; October 25, 2004)

Och slutligen, min personliga favorit:

Karl Rove, svenskdödaren:
Rove is a Norwegian-American. According to Bob Woodward's recent book, Rove is obsessed with the "historical duplicity" of the Swedes, who seized Norway back in 1814. According to Woodward, this nationalism manifested itself as hatred for Swedish weapons inspector Hans Blix.

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