[lbo-talk] Taibbi on Rive

[Chris Doss]

A persistent feature of the Rove profile is the
reporter's close proximity to Rove in a casual,
intimate setting (i.e., Elisabeth Bumiller astride the
"bombastic, deceptively cherub-faced" Rove on the
campaign plane as he "playfully withholds news of
recent polls from the president"). Rove made sure to
invite every reporter in Washington for a one-day
private tour of his world of dirty jokes, harried
cell-phone calls and ad-hoc strategizing. And every
hack that took the tour came away with stars in his
eyes, primed to make Rove into the larger-than-life
villain role he had been fitted for.

The result of all this was to obscure the basic fact
about Rove, which is that he's not a genius at all. He
is a pig, and the only thing that distinguishes him is
the degree of his brazenness and cruelty. It doesn't
take a genius to send out fliers calling your opponent
the "fag candidate." It doesn't take a genius to
insinuate that your opponent's wife is a drug addict.
There's nothing cunning or clever about saying your
opponent came home from a war too fucked in the head
to govern (particularly when your own candidate was
too much of a coward to fight in the same war), or
about whispering that that same candidate may have an
illegitimate black child. And there's nothing clever
about calling the followers of the opposition party
traitorous and un-American, and claiming that they all
want to coddle and appease the murderers of our
brothers, sisters, sons and daughters.

http://www.buffalobeast.com/80/rove.htm

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