(REPOST) Reflection on What Leaks from Turd Blossom

Reflection on What Leaks From Turd Blossom |Posted by : ilyana on
Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 02:33 PM PST
Since Rove is getting busy in the public eye again,I am reposting
this article, I wrote back in July, on Karl Rove:

Reflection on What Leaks from Turd Blossom
by
MK Meadows

Karl Rove is a man known by some other names, and not all of them
smell so sweet. He is described in the title of a documentary as {1}
Bush's Brain by Joseph Mealey and Michael Paradies Shoob. He has
been called by his benefactor, George Bush, the cliche' "Boy Genius"
and the more creative"Turd Blossom" (hence TB), reported by Time
magazine in April, 2001{2}. Whatever inspired such a strangely
repellant pet name is probably known only by a select few
individuals. It's likely too, that the man who spreads nasty
innuendos about opponents and dissidents on a regular basis, was
none too happy about TB spreading through the press as his
designation. It's one of those kinds of leaks that some people will
chuckle at and other's frown, but all will wonder, how did he earn
such an appellation? Prehaps it is a talent for taking what stinks,
and making it smell like a rose, and visa versa.

Karl Rove was one of the "Iron Triangle", with Karen Hughes and Joe
Allbaugh. Collectively, they conducted an 'anything goes' twist and
smear campaign against opponents of Bush, such as Govenors Mark
White and Anne Richards, that got GW into the Governor's mansion in
Texas. They applied the phrase "compassionate conservative" to
George Bush, to such an extent that some attribute the K team (Karl
and Karen) with coining it, though it was apparently conceived in
1994 as the phrase child of talk show host Michael Savage.{3} It's
ironic that the name Savage fits the entire neoconservative network
of Bush's Administration, much better than compassionate. Rove
perfected his political PR techniques, even slashing the character
of fellow Republican Senator John McCain, who was opposite Bush in
the 2000 primaries. Enough public support was generated to get GW
into the White House and keep him there despite the implications* of
Bush's appointment by a Supreme Court opinion and the fact that Bush
had lost the popular election nationally to Al Gore. Rove was
somehow able to take the smelly mess of the Florida Election process
and hide a rotten bouquet of T blossums behind the press's back. As
though paralyzed, the press didn't turn around to look. Rove, Hughes
and Allbaugh each got cozy appointments when Bush ascended his
throne.{4}

As Senior Advisor to Bush, Rove has been working behind the scenes
to make sure everyone stays on message, even if it's lies. TB has
manipulated public opinion by carefully controlling what is released
to Press Secretary Scott McClellan and some hand picked journalists.
This has facilitated the passage of Bush's deformation of
regulations that once protected our environment, health, jobs, and
constitutional rights. His uniques skills are being applied to sell
the dismantling of our Social Security Safety net. Rove helped
propagate the lies that rallied luke warm support for the illegal
war in Iraq, and attacked anyone who protested, including foreign
dignitaries such as French President Jacque Chirac and South African
President Nelson Mandela.

One case in point is the twisting of the Jessica Lynch story, who
went from being the wonder woman of the Iraqi war to a tart who
froliced topless with two other soldiers before she was deployed in
2001. As a kind of Hollywood tale of heroism, Lynch was portrayed as
being injured in an attack on her unit, where she supposedly dug in
and held out even though wounded, till she ran out of ammunition.
After she was taken as a prisoner of war, she was rescued
dramatically by US Marines. As it turned out, she was injured in the
wreck of the Humvee she was riding in, too much to hold onto a gun,
much less shoot it. The subsequent rescue was from a Iraqi hospital
where she had been treated humanely for her injuries. Rove's office
smeared her reputation with the topless story, because Ms. Lynch had
said to ABC news:

["Yeah, it does [bother me]. It does that they used me as a way to
symbolize all this stuff," Lynch said, "I mean, yeah, it's wrong ...
I don't know what they had ... or why they filmed it."]

Rove has actually met with Hollywood directors to discuss the making
of pro-war movies that would generate the patriotic desire to go to
war. {5} I have wondered, if TB may have had a hand in the TV
series, 24. The US media and public has been so well trained, some
of us bought Bush's repeated messages. Bought them enough that the
public outcry against going to war was stifled by a cooperative lack
of coverage in the press, and pro-war messages overwhelming the
news. How many times did Karl Rove shake a shtik at the press to
spin the lies that took US into the illegal war, supposedly to
depose a single MAN, but whose people have suffered and died, in the
hundreds of thousands, and continue to suffer. How many speeches did
Rove tweak for the Rummy, Rice, Bush, and Dick shtik, so that the
lies were consistent. Their shtik makes me sick.

One of the worst war dissent retaliations from Rove is resolving in
mainstream media this week, ever since reporters Matt Cooper and
Judith Miller were warned of contempt charges if they continued to
refuse to release information as to their sources to Special Counsel
Patrick Fitzgerald. When Bush's administration was beating the drums
of war with charges of Saddam having weapons of mass destruction,
the claim was bouyed by 'intelligence' that Iraq had bought yellow
cake uranium from Niger in Africa, with which Bush and company
claimed he would build nuclear warheads that could be used on US
soil. Joseph Wilson, once the ambassador to the African
nation,Gabon, went to Niger on a fact finding mission and
contradicted Bush's 'intelligence'. It was later proved that the
documents used to make the uranium sale claim were forged. Shortly
there after, it was leaked to the press that Joseph Wilson's wife,
Valerie Plame may have offered up Wilson for the mission and was a
CIA operative. This leak ruined her career and possibly endangered
the lives of her connections. An article in the Progressive,
September 28,2003 summed up the inicial situation:

http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2004/03/waas-m-03-08.html
["Yesterday, a senior administration official said that before
Novak's column ran, two top White House officials called at least
six Washington journalists and disclosed the identity and occupation
of Wilson's wife. `Clearly, it was meant purely and simply for
revenge,' the senior official said of the alleged leak. A source
said reporters quoted a leaker as describing Wilson's wife as `fair
game.'"
A subsequent Newsweek story suggested that the Post had been
incorrect in some details. According to the magazine's account, the
calls to "at least six Washington journalists" took place after
Novak's column appeared, rather than before. Furthermore, Newsweek
made an assertion (confirmed by Wilson) that MSNBC talk-show host
Chris Matthews called Wilson in July, a full week after Novak's
column appeared, telling the former ambassador that "Karl Rove …
said your wife was fair game." ]

Most of what Boy Genius has accomplished, that we know of, falls
within legal parameters. It is not illegal for the government or TV
network news to lie to the public. It maybe against our naive sense
of right and wrong, but it's legal. Naive, because we tend to
believe that our political representatives and media makers embrace
the same ideals of behavior that we, 'average Americans' try to live
by. In reality, some do, some don't. Since one of Rove's all time
favorite books is Machiavelli's The Prince, I think we might assume
that Rove falls under category of 'politicians that don't embrace
those ideals'. At least not for himself or Washington power brokers.
One of the principals of The Prince is whatever is expediant is
necessary, and that consequently great leaders must lie. Machiavelli
drew on the moral "that it is far better to earn the confidence of
the people than to rely on fortresses" {6} In Machiavellian
politics, it is important for the public to believe that their
leaders, are "good" God fearing men, of the same faith as most of
the people, whether or not the leaders are true believers. This
causes the people to attribute qualities to their leaders that
create trust and compliance. At the same time, leaders demonize the
same behaviors for the general public, that the leaders do as a
matter of "good government". But one thing that is illegal for
anyone, that takes the stand in a court of law in the United States
of America, is to lie to that court. That is perjury. And apparently
perjury is what Karl Rove did, when he told Special Counsel Patrick
Fitzgerald that he didn't leak Valerie Plame's identity as a Cia
operative to the media.
Yesterday morning July 10, 2005, it was reported by Newsweek, that
Karl Rove was the source of the leak.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8525978/site/newsweek/
["Rove told Cooper that Wilson's trip had not been authorized
by "DCIA"—CIA Director George Tenet—or Vice President Dick Cheney.
Rather, "it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the
agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized
the trip." Wilson's wife is Plame, then an undercover agent working
as an analyst in the CIA's Directorate of Operations
counterproliferation division. (Cooper later included the essence of
what Rove told him in an online story.) The e-mail characterizing
the conversation continues: "not only the genesis of the trip is
flawed an[d] suspect but so is the report. he [Rove] implied
strongly there's still plenty to implicate iraqi interest "]
Rove's statement in the newsweek story excerpt above, may seem
sufficiently vague to satisfy reasonable doubt of innocence in a
grand jury investigation, except Rove must have known Valerie Plame
was Wilson's wife. In fact he may have known Valerie Plame on a more
intimate community basis. According to Harpers.org, {5} ["Plame and
Rove, it was reported, attend the same Episcopal church."] . And if
nothing else, Rove made it his business to know people. That was the
power of his damaging press plants and leaks, they come close to
being true, or parts were selectively true. That kind of
manipulation takes an understanding of the whole picture. If Rove
says he didn't know, he is using more Machiavelli to save himself.
So Rove apparently lied in his original testimony to Special Counsel
Patrick Fitzgerald. In addition to perjury, if Newsweek's story is
accurate, Rove is guilty of a violation of the Intelligence
Protection Act, of 1982, which carries penalties of up to 10 years
in prison and $50,000 in fines. Shall compassion be extended to this
man, or shall we conserve it? Did he show compassion to Joseph
Wilson and his wife? Has he shown compassion to our soldiers, sent
under false pretenses to Iraq and to the people who live(d) there?
Prehaps Karl Rove has earned an additional nick name he can add on
the front of TB: Stoolie Turd Blossom.

copyright July 11,2005
M.K. Meadows

aka ilyana on
http://www.choicechanges.com

{1} http://www.bushsbrain.net/
{2} http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,107219,00.html
{3} http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Compassionate_conservatism

{4} http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=23042002-014200-1868r

{5} http://www.harpers.org/KarlRove.html

{6} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavellian

******* Read the following article for an extensive list of Rove's
blooming turd blossoms.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/120503_rove.html
KARL ROVE: THE KING OF DIRT
The Turd Blossom's Chickens May Come To Roost, By Wayne Madsen
(Special to From The Wilderness)
© Copyright 2003, From The Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com.
All Rights Reserved. May be reprinted, distributed or posted on an
Internet web site for non-profit purposes only.

For background on Rove's Iron Triangle days...also read:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue48/pols.bush.html

For background on the smelly election problems from 2000 and 2004
see:
http:/www.blackboxvoting.org/

* and a tremendous historical essay by Dom Stasi:
Take This Jeb and Shove It.
http://www.spectacle.org/0904/stasi.html

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