Rove

What, precisely, was Karl Rove doing in Yalta just before the Georgian-Russian conflict?  Please don’t tell us that it was coincidental.  Premature/Thom Hartmann – why doesn’t the corporate media pick this up and run with it?  Things I hear on Air America stations that turn out to be true are always downplayed by the big guys.  Anyone who has to do with any aspect of the Bush administration gets a by if the news bite looks like it will bite a Republican.

Unless totally up to no good, there is no reason on earth why a schlock like Rove should be any where near a Georgian president. Vacationing, my foot! This is undoubtedly the biggest national and perhaps internaional rat of the last century.

Well, let’s hope the Seargent of arms will be sent to his doorstep next week. Although there was a embarassing story about Rangell on the front page of the NYT today. Apparently, he has four rent controlled apartments in NYC.

Damiann – what do you think of the new comment notification emails? and the ignore commenter feature?

Even after this, nothing will happen.

I always find it odd, but how can anything be "tainted" by "profit motive" in a capitalist society? Public displays of altruism would equally face scorn for McClellan, whether it was Arianna Huffington or Sean Hannity. What matters finally is the work, whether it has something that is historically sustainable. Work that is useful can be produced by scoundrels. Opera still performs Richard Wagner, does it not?

BeerDoctor, I still think McClellan was so dishonest and evasive as spokesman that his attempts to come clean here are not better late than never but tainted instead by profit motive.

If he really wanted to do good, he should donate 75% of the book’s proceeds to charity and erase the unseemliness of speaking out now to promote book sales.

Much of the complaints from the left about McClellan’s book seem to miss the main point. This is a memoir from a disillusioned true believer of George W Bush, who’s roots go all the way back to Texas. How strange that the White House and their minions speak of disloyalty, who they themselves  deliberately instructed McClellan to lie to the American people.
Whatever money is made from the book, that is a ridiculous attempt to discredit the content. The rants at Fox News claim McClellan was just in it for the money. That is truly rich, from a crowd that has made a thriving cottage industry marketing nonsense.