CBS News: Rove-Gannon Connection?

[norml]

Rove-Gannon Connection?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2005



Karl Rove (Photo: AP)



Karl Rove's hope to become a respected policymaker will be hampered if the dirty tricks from his political past are more apparent than his desire to spread liberty around the globe.






(CBS) Dotty Lynch is the Senior Political Editor for CBS News. E-mail your questions and comments to Political Points
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Karl Rove took a victory lap at an SRO lunch at the Conservative Political Action Committee meeting at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington on Thursday. After a glowing introduction by Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association, Rove proclaimed "conservatism as the dominant political creed in America," but warned Republicans not to get complacent or grow "tired and timid." He recalled the dark days when the Democrats were dominant and cautioned that that could happen again if they let down their guard. The new White House deputy chief of staff also called on conservatives to "seize the mantle of idealism."

Tired and timid are two adjectives never applied to Rove. The architect of the Bush victories in 2000 and 2004 came through the ranks of college Republicans with the late Lee Atwater, and their admitted and alleged dirty tricks are the legends many young political operatives dream of pulling off. So when Jeff Gannon, White House "reporter" for Talon "News," was unmasked last week, the leap to a possible Rove connection was unavoidable. Gannon says that he met Rove only once, at a White House Christmas party, and Gannon is kind of small potatoes for Rove at this point in his career.

But Rove's dominance of White House and Republican politics, Gannon's aggressively partisan work and the ease with which he got day passes for the White House press room the past two years make it hard to believe that he wasn't at least implicitly sanctioned by the "boy genius." Rove, who rarely gave on-the-record interviews to the MSM (mainstream media), had time to talk to GOPUSA, which owns Talon.
snip http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/opinion/lynch/main675050.shtml

[lebkuchen]

1. I'll bet my future SS payments

that Rove and Guk are lovers.

I think roving Rove found Guk on the internet, or at some Beltway orgy, and Rove initiated the full court "press" pass.

[jdots]

2. go back to your bunker Rove

We are not going to catch the turd master in bed with anyone but chimpy.We should just hit the repukes with the fact that this bozo was not a journalist.The sex connections are going to be very hard to prove,the lack of his journalistic credits is in the open.All these neocons are kinky,not gay ,not straight just power hungry little spoided babys that so far have managed to fuck up the world more than any monsters before them.They have the media,we have the truth,when we stop the media we stop them.

[whathappened]

3. cnn and 360

watched his tired little ass on 360 last nite and he was either acting the poor me or he was setting the world up to beleave he was a target of the left to spread truth about him from the past , as in his past is no one's buiness , lol what a joke this was on cnn , they lowered themself even lower then they are , with this kind of reporting

[zalinda]

4. Did you notice

the rapid eye blinking? Isn't that supposed to be a sign of lying?

zalinda

[Benbow]

5. Not of lying exactly

but of stress.

[norml]

6. I'm sorry I missed it. I'd like to look at a transcript.

If anyone has a link, please provide it here.

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

7. I wouldn't be surprised

I still wonder how Gannon got access to those supposedly classified documents-- maybe there is an angle on the Wilson/Plame scandal here?