Rove Sells First Amendment for $30,000

[deminks]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patricia-foulkrod/rove-sells-first-amendmen_b_164756.html

CodePink emailed me that Karl Rove would be speaking last night at Los Angeles' Loyola Marymount University as part of their annual First Amendment Week. I then learned that Rove would reportedly receive $30,000 by LMU for this 6-7:30 pm First Amendment Happy Hour.

How many community college students could study the U.S. Constitution and the workings of Karl Rove with his fee? A question perhaps for future SAT tests.

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I emailed back that I was not a Republican-handcuffing kind of girl. Then I got a call from one of the Iraq Veterans in my documentary, The Ground Truth. His PTSD is recklessly roving across his brain, his heart, his marriage - he can't work, hardly leaves the house, and has an appointment at the VA sometime in the indeterminate future. He voted for Obama but hope and change don't come with a retroactive clause. So I hung up and remembered that underneath my irrational fear of very tight spaces is an even greater fear of Karl Rove being in the same room with the First Amendment. I put on my long black velvet coat, my red high heels, and picked up a ten-dollar pair of silver handcuffs.

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You have talked tonight about the fact that the people behind the scenes, the invisible ones, are actually more powerful and more dangerous in the liberal press - you specifically said producers and editors. Are you not describing yourself? You have been the man behind the curtain for eight years and Bush's legacy is your legacy. But I am here to bring you a present...

All the security people around him moved a few steps towards me.

I have interviewed over a 100 soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars - including many Republicans - and out of that 100 only maybe 2 have said that they felt the Iraq War has been a just and noble cause... a war worth fighting for...many are sick and wounded and they would like you to have these (I held up the handcuffs) AND THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU LOCKED UP IN THEM.

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