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William769 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-20-05 12:01 PM
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I have decided to make a new word
Roved: a nasty, sleezy political attack or character assassination based on half truths or outright lies designed to cast a pall over otherwise decent people or opponents of George W. Bush hatched from the Machiavellian mind of Karl Rove. In the future, this term will come to mean any kind of sleezy attack or character assassination usually prompted by behind-the-scenes lying or misrepresentation and then pretending not to know the source of those misrepresentations .
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-20-05 12:03 PM
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1. We've been Roved.....not bad!
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catnhatnh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-20-05 12:04 PM
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2. See "Boy, did you get Munsoned!"....
...from the movie "Kingpin"....
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iwillalwayswonderwhy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-20-05 12:09 PM
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3. I've been using the phrase
"rovian tactics" for almost 5 years. I'm hoping it will end up in the dictionary someday.
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ClusterFreak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-20-05 12:12 PM
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4. Hey Karl!
....the dictionary called...they wanted to ask your permission to use your last name as the basis for a new word to describe sleazy political tactics!! We leaked them your name....hope you don't mind.
:rofl:
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-20-05 12:22 PM
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5. Didn't leak his name, just that he was *'s chief of staff in charge of
policy
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-20-05 12:26 PM
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6. I was exploring down in the sewer when I found myself surrounded
by thousands of rats. I dropped my flashlight, bent over to pick it up and that's when I got Roved.
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