Karl Rove: ‘Who Gave You The Right To Occupy America?’

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Karl Rove Flips Out At Protesters: ‘Who Gave You The Right To Occupy America?’

Last night, former Bush official Karl Rove appeared at Johns Hopkins University to speak as a part of the annual Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium. Rove soon discovered that he wasn’t going to deliver his right-wing rhetoric unopposed, as a cry of “Mic Check!” rang out among the audience.

“Karl Rove is the architect of Occupy Iraq, the architect of Occupy Afghanistan!” yelled the demonstrators. Occupy Baltimore had infiltrated the crowd and began chanting against Rove. “Who gave you the right to occupy America?” asked Rove to the protesters, apparently unaware of the Bill of Rights. As they repeated their slogan, “We are the 99 percent!” Rove petulantly responded, “No you’re not!” He snidely added, “You wanna keep jumping up and yelling that you’re the 99 percent? How presumptuous and arrogant can you think are!” Watch Occupy Baltimore confront Rove:


http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/16/369694/occupy-baltimore-karl-rove/

[Avalux]

1. THE CONSTITUTION YOU ASSHOLE. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. "Just a piece of paper"...remember?

[Avalux]

8. Yes, that's what they'd have us believe, and sometimes I do. n/t

[zbdent]

40. And, don't forget, they put down anybody who says it's a "living document" ...

unless it's being amended to outlaw homosexuals getting married and other RW hot-button issues ...

[Taverner]

23. +10000000000000000

[FlyByNight]

29. +1

:thumbsup:

[rustydog]

110. Ding, ding, ding,ding!!!! You are CORRECT!

Jay, tell them what they've won!
"Americans!, you've won the RIGHT to petition your government for a redress of your grieviences"

You Conservative Constitutionalists who are "offended" by the OWS movement...Protecting speech you agree with is so simple a Republican can do it. The challenge is fighting tooth and nail for those who you vehemently disagree with so that they have the same right to speak as you do.

Put that in your constitutional pipe and smoke it.

[erpowers]

112. Heck Yeah N/T

[villager]

2. More projection as usual, Karl?

n/t

[rocktivity]

3. Those hippie punks who threw the tea

into the Boston Harbor!

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Ship of Fools]

4. Karl: Who gave you the right to FUCK UP OUR COUNTRY?

[RKP5637]

7. +1000 +++ n/t

[Scuba]

11. Plus another.

[geardaddy]

15. You win the thread.

[Wind Dancer]

24. ...and another!

What a pathetic human being. Kudos to Occupy Baltimore!!!

[SaveAmerica]

84. I'm sick that he still has a voice in public

[barbtries]

100. yeah.

he's supposed to be in prison or at least ostracized into exile.

[Enthusiast]

91. Ain't that the damn truth!

[KansDem]

6. He really doesn't have a clue, does he?

:shrug:

[fascisthunter]

9. We the People did... and you will one day pay for Treason

it isn't over for you until your last day on earth. Wherever you go, we will be here you fascist unamerican worm.

[Tsiyu]

10. Um...the people who wrote the US Constitution, KKKarl

Remember those guys?

Didn't think so...

[vcc]

12. I think he protests too much.

[Fawke Em]

13. Who gave him the right to lie?

The first part of the speech was just a series of them, FWIW.

[redqueen]

14. "How presumptuous and arrogant can you think are!”

Really?

:rofl:

[cyglet]

43. I know

Pot. Kettle. Black.

[freshwest]

78. +1,000

[Javaman]

102. That one phrase reeks of desperation.

the desperation of him trying to wrap his head around the concept that people hate him.

his massive ego prevents him from ever understanding the what the people of this nation are currently going through.

[reggie the dog]

16. i was born with the right, the constitution explains that karl.

no one gave me any damn rights, i was born with them, we spelled out our rights to explain to future government what they could not do to us.

[stillrockin]

17. what a jackass

[Newest Reality]

18. That adds more fuel to the cause!

Our rights are inalienable. They transcend even the Constitution itself.

Those rights are not given to us by anyone else. They are the birthright of all human beings no matter who says otherwise or would intend to put constraints or conditions on them. No matter how long those rights have been subverted, neglected and repressed, they still remain self-evident and we are arising together to exercise them with one voice that grows more persistent and louder each day.

Deal with that Karl, and please notice what you are projecting because we are more aware and capable of discerning it than you might suppose.

[vcc]

87. the truly sick part is that's probably why he's saying it...

...he'll figure out a way to profit off it politically or otherwise, I'm sure.

[AntiFascist]

19. Translation...

'just because you were born in the US, unless you're a member of the privileged class, we can treat you like shit.'

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. Talk about presumptuous and arrogant. Oh and he is batshit crazy!

Just who does he think the 99% are, anyway.

And why would it be presumptuous and arrogant to think one is, of the 99%?

:shrug:

[The Second Stone]

21. The Constution?

First Amendment

Karl hates the Constitution and especially the First Amendment.

[G_j]

22. LOL

[NeedleCast]

25. Awesome! Go Occupy Baltimore!

Turdblossom, the answer is "The Constitution." You should know that.

[chowder66]

26. Um...Newt...we did. We ARE americans! And ... we have our rights.

I guess the old "you are anti-america(n) if you don't agree with us" meme is back on the table.

Why don't these people just give it up. They are desperate and past their due date.

[Marrah_G]

27. Rove is such a disgusting little rodent.

[smirkymonkey]

28. Hey Karl, who gave you the right to occupy space in the world?

You useless little turd.

[dotymed]

104. No, He is a "turd-blossom...n/t

[leftynyc]

30. The Founding Fathers

What's your next question you vile piece of shit?

[lunatica]

31. Ooooh! Sounds like he lost his dough boy complacent cool

That's excellent!

May every place he goes be Occupied and Mic Checked!

Oh! This is truly delicious!

[Kaleko]

53. I believe you are foretelling his future right there.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

32. No more pre-screened, canned audiences for the Chimp Fluffer

What? We can't order the Secret Service to throw out everyone but card-carrying Bushites? What's this world coming to when free speech is actually free?

[JDPriestly]

86. True. Has he forgotten how, during the Bush administration, people were excluded from Republican

meetings if they wore so much as a tee-shirt that the Republican party bosses did not like.

That was the Bush administration Mike-Check. Just don't allow anyone who might voice an opinion other than your own into your show.

Rove, finally you, a chief Mike-Checker of the Bush administration, have been Mike-checked.

You and others in the Bush administration went so far to punish dissident opinions as to pass the Patriot Act and try to subpoena (or just demand) library records.

So, how does it feel to be the tiny minority not being given the freedom to speak?

Mike-check all Fascists. Thank you.

[Javaman]

103. Yup, when the deck isn't' stacked in his favor, he can't handle it.

I expect more reactions like this from him, but first we will be treated to "explanations" from him on faux news, as to why he reacted the way he did. Which will only add more fuel to his inability to with reality or facts.

I do believe his Achilles heel has been found. aka no pre-screen audiences.

[Octafish]

33. Hey, Karl! Who gave you the right to STEAL it?

Hope you see your day in court, you treasonous bastard!

[HughBeaumont]

34. Pigshit Peeved: "Don't they know their place? Don't they know when they've been conquered?"

HA HA HA HA HA SUCK IT, you laughing tax-fattened bastard! You should be in the HAGUE or a Federal Prison, you slappy bitch.

[FirstLight]

35. whazzaamatter KKKarl?

not happy the Proles are talking back?

too fuckin bad... and when we take over, you, my friend, will finally see the inside of a JAIL CELL

[Amonester]

36. Why isn't that accomplice to war crimes rotting in jail for life...

yet?

That aRRogant a-hole pRojectoR should occupy a prison cell.

[lebkuchen]

37. Rove, you were unelected.

Who gave you the right to influence the mind of a numb-nuts president to get involved in a war for no good reason?

[mod mom]

38. Shouldn't that treasonous bastard be behind bars?

[jorno67]

39. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times...Fuck Karl Rove! n/t

[Le Taz Hot]

41. My motherfucking birthright did

you piece of vermin shit! :mad:

[ThoughtCriminal]

42. George Washington and his gang!

You pathetic dweeb!

[eShirl]

44. Does "We the People" ring any bells? n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

106. It should be ringing this bell

[Downwinder]

45. WE THE PEOPLE

[RoccoR5955]

46. Who gave you the right to TEAR UP THE US CONSTITUTION?!?!?!

Bass Turd!

[NICO9000]

47. Keep talkin', fat boy!

He's pretty arrogant and presumptuous to think that he wouldn't encounter hecklers at a UNIVERSITY!!!

:rofl:

[guitar man]

48. He needs to occupy a prison cell

Letting all these rich assbiscuits get away with murder is going to ultimately be our undoing :grr:

[handmade34]

49. Thank you Occupiers!!!

:applause:

[Kaleko]

55. A million thanks are in order.

On top of that, gratitude puts us in a very high vibrational state. Win-win for everyone. Including Karl, who needs an attitude adjustment before he dies and gets reborn as an insect or something even lower on the evolutionary scale. :)

[Beartracks]

50. Founding Fathers for 1000, Alex!

Or maybe you should "ask the audience" for help with that one, Karl.

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[DallasNE]

51. Hey, Rove, Who Gave You The Right To

Conspire to out Valrie Plame-Wilson -- addition to the other two mentioned, occupy Iraq and occupy Afghanistan. For that matter, why is anybody still listening to you given your track record. Nobody believes a word you say so stick a sock in it.

[TNLib]

52. Cool Karl Rove vs Occupiers definitely adds fuel to the fire. I even think many in the GOP hate

his ass.

[benld74]

54. Poppy Bush 1st hired Rove, he was the one who pulled him from,,

the dirty politics of Texas and MADE him what he is today.

[Deep13]

56. These guys...

...and these folks...



...but most importantly we gave ourselves the right. We don't need approval from any authority to do so. We are the nation.

[FunMe]

70. PS Rove is not an "authority" ... just a WAR criminal!

Being that he committed TREASON and more crimes, Rove deserves to be Mic Checked EVERYWHERE he goes.
Glad to see him get hot and bothered. :applause: Living it and loving it!

[Deep13]

80. No, Rove is not authority.

I meant actual authority including the 1st Amendment. By seeking permission we construct ourselves as the Other defined in opposition to structures of power. Rather, we ought to construct ourselves as synonymous with the nation including its power structures. That's why these media complaints of lack of leadership or focus are missing the point. We are not an Other seeking to have its demands met by the hegemonic culture. Rather, we seek to supplant that culture with our own.

[stormpilot]

57. Eff you Rove!

we look forward to your next venue and "mic check"!!!

[lovelyrita]

58. Good for them!

I would like to know what kind of people would give Karl Rove a standing ovation. Makes my skin crawl!

[Raksha]

59. Hey Rover, we could ask YOU and your ilk the same question;

Who gave YOU the right to occupy America?

Not all occupations are positive--just ask the Palestinians among others. You Nixon-era dirty tricksters have been occupying America since the 1970s, and we're sick of you. So now we're RE-OCCUPYING it!!!

[unionworks]

60. k&r

Thanks! Never thought I'd see the day when pig boy got dressed down. :)

[Dutchmaster]

61. I would guess Karl is terrified of this revolution "going French"

as I am fairly certain he would be near the head of the line.

[ellisonz]

62. Ratfucker.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ratfucking

[Leopolds Ghost]

63. This quote needs to go viral. This is the new "won't get fooled again." A parting gift from the

masters of malapropism and fascism, the Bush Family Evil Empire.

[nineteen50]

64. He only understands the few the

rich and richer his political base.

[jerseyjack]

65. Any Mic Check at a Karl Rove event should begin,

"The War Criminal, Karl Rove, ...... "

[The Wizard]

66. The son of a bitch

Should have been hanged for treason, and he would have if he wasn't a capo in the Bush cartel.

[FunMe]

67. Who gave the FASCIST ROVE PIG the right to anything when he has BLOOD on his hands

Who cares what the piggly wiggly fascist un-American traitor says.

The best part of the video: KKKarl Rove was disturbed. :crazy: Everything he said did not matter. He thought he would have a speech, people would clap, he would say bad things about Obama, some questions would follow, and then more applause before he left.
DID NOT HAPPEN ... :headbang: living it and loving it! :fistbump:

Karl Rove has been exposed even more for his fascist un-American behavior. Trust me, it's NOT going to get better for him. The youth of America, especially those in the OWS around America will continue to Mic check him and he will no longer have the microphone to spill his bs. He is a WAR CRIMINAL.

I just LOVE how his little stupid speech was thrown off. :woohoo: MIC CHECK indeed! :rofl:

[AsahinaKimi]

68. Karl Rove should be in solitary confinement

rather then on the speaking circuit. He figures since he is a Republican and apart of the 1% no one should have the right to speak but him, and people like him. If he had his way he would have everyone, who are in the streets gunned down.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

69. Rove 'the leak' strikes again no doubt he is a 1%er

[Zorra]

71. Rove is the poster boy for everything that is wrong and bad about our country.

go, Baltimore! Up in Mr. Piggie's face! I love:loveya:the OWS movement.

Finally, we are getting up into the faces of these treasonous Bush fascists.

With the Occupy movement, maybe we can finally bring the monsters of the Bush administration to justice eventually.

[ChazInAz]

72. Hey, Karl.

It's an inalienable right, given to us by the fact of our humanity.
We're coming for you.

[Initech]

73. Who gave Karl Rove the right to do ANYTHING???

[blackspade]

74. What a clueless fucktard.

If he asked that question, then he has no business in American politics.

Dumbass.

[Capitalocracy]

75. Wait, Karl Rove supports giving America back to the indigenous people?

Interesting stance, Karl.

[RegieRocker]

76. Don't need a "Who" dumbass. It's a piece of paper.

The confusion of corporations as people has infected your understanding that a piece of paper isn't a "Who".

[Demeter]

77. It's a Miracle!

The 99% won one! And now have a tool to win more.

[rhett o rick]

79. I hope that annon finds some really notty stuff on KKKarl's computer. nm

[defendandprotect]

81. Good for them --!! Rove should be in jail -- !!

[Blue Owl]

82. Karl's soulmate is a big bag of rancid shit

Go fuck your turdsack, Rove. Twice.

[Demeter]

83. The Fact That Karl Asked This Question Cannot Be Papered Over

and he's not the only one to think that some animals are more EQUAL than others. He puts himself in the rank of the 1%, a prince, a despot, a ruler.

[usrname]

85. The First Amendment

If it hasn't been said already. Geez, this guy was in the government?

[cantbeserious]

88. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union

eom

[Enthusiast]

92. Rove don't need no stinkin' union.

[malaise]

89. Mike Connell's folks want to know who gave Rove the right

to...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxtm5RF_6Ow

[WildNovember]

90. Forget Rove. What floors me is the audience cheering him on. Johns Hopkins must be some school.

There seems to be no support whatsoever for the protestors. It's like a conclave of the 1%. I guess that's the sort of college student that goes to hear Rove speak in the first place.

[newspeak]

105. who cares how many cheer him

they either have not read about some of his sterling moments or they come from the same cloth. I read about some of rove's early political beginnings and its not pretty. I believe he worked on a campaign for some southern gubernatorial election, apparently a photo was doctored of the democratic challenger and a black woman to imply a sexual liaison, of course, the media ate it up. I believe the man has no moral compass at all. From election fraud to outing a cia network to further an agenda (iraq war), the man will sell his soul if it furthers a very immoral agenda.

And I am tired of sleaze politics with no substance, no remedies. Some of these debates between the repugs, I feel like I'm at a high school debate for president. Or some of the remedies offered, like cain's, harms even more of us while maintaining the current status quo. How many have been brought down by lies, like rove perpetrates Let's see there's McGovern (which the repugs apologized afterwords), Kerry on his military record, and the media is complicit all the way.

Teflon boy and his ilk have done more harm to this country and the majority of the people, it doesn't surprise me that he disregards a bit of paper called the constitution.

[spicegal]

93. That's really rich coming from Karl Rove.

This coming from a guy who thinks permanent one party rule obtained by hook or crook is justified. What gives him and his friends (the 25-30%) the right to impose their ideology on the rest of America with their constant lies and deceit. Karl Rove thinks that freedom of speech, or freedom of anything only belongs to the very tiny swath of rich America.

[Shining Jack]

94. What a fucking nasty idiot.

And why is he not in jail were he belongs?

[octothorpe]

95. So he's basically saying "Who gave you the right to protest?" Ughh.

[harun]

96. According to these fascist pigs the only right the 99% have is to make the 1% richer.

[Capt. America]

97. Why isn't he in jail?

[wildeyed]

98. Suck it, you lying sack of shit.

Surprise, liberals so get angry.

[TBF]

99. Why do republicans think the Constitution only applies to them?

And, more importantly, why is his ass not in jail?

[Javaman]

101. "How presumptuous and arrogant can you think are!”

thank you mr. rove for summing up the 1%'s stance and opinion of the people of this nation.

[judesedit]

107. What a dick Rove is.

That's all for now.

[HopeHoops]

108. He really doesn't have a flying fuck of an idea what he's talking about.

[DaveJ]

109. He just doesn't get it - How arrogant can he thing he is??

First off he's a criminal, and then, to give a speech in a university that is nothing but propaganda against the elected President, is the height of presumptuousness. Universities are supposed to be institutions for learning, not for paid propagandists.

Questions?? Come on. What is he going to teach, turning patriots into slimebag war criminals?

We are the 99%. Allowing him to take the podium for 2 minutes gave him way more credit than he deserves.

[sarcasmo]

111. KKK Karl still clueless about the fight of the poor and the working class.

[kestrel91316]

113. My ancestors and a bunch of their buddies did, turdblossom.

You know, THESE guys:

[DallasNE]

114. Reflect On The Words Of Gandhi

For they are as relevant today as they were 100 years ago.

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

[samsingh]

115. the Constitution Rove you asshole

[sulphurdunn]

116. The problem with all Rovian

creatures is their fail to understand that rights are asserted, not granted by Rovians.

[Quantess]

117. Too late to recommend.

[Remember Me]

118. GOP = Greedy Old Pigs

from one of the comments. Perfect.