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Karl Rove and Wife Divorce

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 12:05:52 PM EST
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Texas has granted a divorce to Karl Rove and his wife Darby. They've been married 24 years. A friend of his blames the split partly on the "stress and strain" of the White House years.

Maybe he just thinks he'll sell more books as a single man.

Rove’s 608-page memoir, “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight,” is due out from Simon & Schuster’s Threshold Editions on March 9.

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    Just typing the name (5.00 / 1) (#12)
    by Anne on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 01:24:27 PM EST
    "Karl Rove" makes me want to disinfect my keyboard.

    Another conservative, family-values divorce...that they're such good friends makes it all acceptable to the holier-than-thou crowd.

    Hey, at least they didn't say that the ongoing effort to legalize same-sex marriage proved to be too great a threat to their own, leaving them no choice but to divorce.

    Conservatives in CA are trying to (none / 0) (#14)
    by oculus on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 01:33:26 PM EST
    get a proposition on the ballot to outlaw divorce.  Perhaps this was a preemptive strike.

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    I think that is a pro gay marriage group (none / 0) (#48)
    by MKS on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 05:02:02 PM EST
    The hypocrisy and all.

    But, along the lines of be careful what you wish for, that initiative has the potential to draw a lot of support from social conservatives.....So, if progressives trying to cause mischief, and conservatives trying to outlaw immorality, band together, what odd things may follow.

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    I love it... (none / 0) (#104)
    by kdog on Wed Dec 30, 2009 at 09:50:33 AM EST
    the prohibition of divorce might finally bring this situation to a head...and it would be damn fun to watch go down:)

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    yech.... karl rove.... nuff said (5.00 / 1) (#17)
    by desertswine on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 01:43:17 PM EST


    Y'know, I don't know whether to congratulate (5.00 / 1) (#23)
    by scribe on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 02:24:57 PM EST
    him and his now-ex-wife, or to feel sorry for them.

    On the one hand, they are both free of the continued misery and unhappiness their now-extinct marriage placed upon their lives.  On the other hand, their being free of that misery and unhappiness seems an undeserved boon.

    Or, as someone wiser than I once said "I'm generous and merciful, but I'm neither so generous nor so merciful as to wish their misery to end."

    Karl Rove and Michaele Salahi together (5.00 / 1) (#38)
    by JosephP on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 04:01:12 PM EST
    I just heard Karl Rove had gotten divorced today. So I was looking for some pictures of his ex-wife Darby.  I found this one---some hip cafe opening in 2002 that he attended:

    http://www.washingtonlife.com/backissues/archives/02mar/toka2.htm

    But look the last picture. Who else was at that thing with Karl?

    Michaele Salahi!

    (Back then she was "Michaela Holt").

    Very interesting!! (none / 0) (#61)
    by Inspector Gadget on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 06:36:01 PM EST
    Can't say I'm surprised.


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    Rove is a sorry piece of crap. He was practicing (5.00 / 1) (#58)
    by Angel on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 06:14:38 PM EST
    his evil deeds in Texas long before anyone in DC ever heard of him, so I've known about him for much longer than most people.  I have prayed long and hard that he would get sent to jail for the rest of his life.  Lord, please hear my prayers.

    Devoted disciple (5.00 / 0) (#77)
    by gyrfalcon on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 09:18:57 PM EST
    of Lee Atwater.  That's pretty much all that needs to be said about him.

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    Love the spin: (none / 0) (#1)
    by oculus on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 12:14:42 PM EST
    They maintain a strong friendship, and they both feel that that friendship is a source of comfort and inspiration for their friends and family."

    WWJD?

    Quite right. I have many gay friends (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by oldpro on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 12:50:32 PM EST
    but I've never married any of them.

    C'mon out, Carl.

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    You said it oldpro, not me...:) (none / 0) (#6)
    by kdog on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 01:08:47 PM EST
    didn't even know he was married, and made the same assumption as you.

    So much for that sanctity of marriage thing eh...shame on Karl for furthering the errosion of our moral fabric:)

     

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    OT but definitely politics of crime: (none / 0) (#2)
    by oculus on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 12:46:41 PM EST
    9th circuit court of appeals opinion upholding denial of qualified immunity on MSJ in taser case

    Good (none / 0) (#36)
    by MKS on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 03:43:16 PM EST
    Too many--especially the San Diego and Orange County Sheriffs, and I recognize that this case involves the Coronado PD--are wannabe commandos....

    Lawsuits are necessary to keep them in line....

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    Party's at Darbys! (none / 0) (#4)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 12:52:57 PM EST
    Yeeeehaw!

    Greenwald goes ballistic. (none / 0) (#16)
    by oculus on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 01:40:29 PM EST


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    More like (5.00 / 1) (#30)
    by kmblue on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 03:11:38 PM EST
    Greenwald points out the facts.

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    Look at how shallow I am (5.00 / 1) (#32)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 03:14:03 PM EST
    I'm looking for a good party while she throws the bum out and I missed the issues :)  And they are huge.

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    I wonder how many advance (none / 0) (#5)
    by jondee on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 12:53:11 PM EST
    copies the Scaife, Richardson, Koch, Olin et al foundations have ordered of Karl's indispensable memoir?

    No doubt the book will serve as a rallying, call-to-battle for conservatives. Like Uncle Tom's Cabin, with Karl running an underground railroad for  the runaway, persecuted Jack Abramoffs and Jeff Gannons of the country: fleeing across icy parking lots and up the backstairs with the ultra-liberal, MSM media in pursuit..

    Karl was a rogue for freedom before going rogue was in.

     

    Don't look now (none / 0) (#7)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 01:10:33 PM EST
    but your venom is showing!

    Wouldn't the correct term be... (5.00 / 3) (#8)
    by kdog on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 01:13:30 PM EST
    anti-venom?...:)

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    What is it about seeing (5.00 / 0) (#10)
    by jondee on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 01:18:39 PM EST
    the word "Rove" in print that makes you more defensive than one of Sinatra's attack dogs, Jim?

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    Actually I haven't seen such (none / 0) (#18)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 01:49:24 PM EST
    misplaced venom since a mouse was spotted at Aunt Jane's Tea Party.

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    The Orange calls to you doesn't (none / 0) (#33)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 03:15:55 PM EST
    it Jim?  It says come to me Jim....I know you love me :)

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    The orange???? (none / 0) (#40)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 04:19:44 PM EST
    You got me there MT. And I apologize. I know it is no fun if you have to explain....

    But really, why the hatred of Rove??? All he did was conjure up Katrina and destroy New Orleans. Everything else is Bush's fault...

    Including the attack on NW 253!

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    Sorry, but the dude's a slob IMO (none / 0) (#43)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 04:25:12 PM EST
    I hate him like I hate the idea of herpes.  He used all that intelligence God granted him to give us the wedge politics that prevents us from being able to attend to the current crisis at hand in the way it needs to be.  He put the rubberstampers into power that allowed unbridled deregulation that has crashed the damned world and he's proud of it.  He enabled an administration that told outright lies to everyone that sent our soldiers to Iraq....my husband being one of them.  We have body bags and fresh graves at Arlington due to LIES and nothing but LIES....

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    On the bright side (none / 0) (#44)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 04:28:24 PM EST
    Maybe Darby can get some now.

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    And so can Karl (none / 0) (#45)
    by jondee on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 04:46:28 PM EST
    even if that airport mens room spot did get blown up.

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    Why are you making fun of the (none / 0) (#51)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 05:17:05 PM EST
    sexual activities of some people? Do you have a problem with Gays and Lesbians?

    And before you answer consider that you just made a nasty snark about Rove possibly being gay.

    You can't have it both ways.

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    I have a problem (3.00 / 0) (#55)
    by jondee on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 06:11:12 PM EST
    with a party of raving, sanctimonious hypocrites.

    Btw, How did your investigation of that blue state set-up of Sen Craig turn out; had any new leads lately?

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    Speaking of (5.00 / 1) (#62)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 07:22:55 PM EST
    hypocrites, you can't denigrate Rove over being gay and claim that you support gay rights.

    If it is an insult to Rove to claim he is gay then it is an insult to any Gay.

    You cannot have it both ways.

    And before you answer remember that I have stated numerous times that as a Social Liberal I support Gay Rights including the right for anyone to marry anyone.

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    And before (5.00 / 1) (#67)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 07:40:37 PM EST
    you start to parse, let me confirm the implied understanding that the parties involved be of legal age, etc., etc.

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    Sure we can, because (5.00 / 0) (#73)
    by scribe on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 08:41:06 PM EST
    the denigration of Rover is predicated not on his [alleged] gayness but rather on his personal and professional hypocrisy in wedging anti-gay this and anti-gay that as policies and then laws (of one flavor or another).  That, and his father was gay, yet he goes forward with the anti-gay this and that for which the Rethugs and their allies have become infamous.

    And, moreover, just the idea of this porcine conniver having to deal with [Republican] people walking up to him and calling him "f*ggot" to his face - and having to take it because it's true - makes me want to double over in laughter.  

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    There were a thousand ways (5.00 / 1) (#81)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 09:31:50 PM EST
    to insult Rove without bringing up the subject of being gay as an insult.

    Which was clearly done.

    Look, you guys brought the subject up. Sorry but there's no wiggle room.

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    No wiggle room between your ears (none / 0) (#112)
    by jondee on Wed Dec 30, 2009 at 11:48:39 AM EST
    that's for sure.

    Again, the point is, the extreme HYPOCRISY of people like Rove, Larry "Bojangles" Craig and the rest of the Save Terri and bomb 'em all to hell crowd.

    But, on second thought, maybe it isnt hypocrisy per se; it may be that what we're dealing with here is more like a form of undiagnosed, ambulatory schizophrenia brought on by a lethal brew of bad whiskey, fatty foods, too much sun and an overexposure to the "faith, not works" brand of theology.

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    Is there something in the water that (none / 0) (#125)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed Dec 30, 2009 at 02:23:40 PM EST
    makes you fail to understand that you didn't have to bring up gays and bathroom sex to attack Rove?

    The selection of your attack vehicle demonstrates your bias.

    Again. Examine your heart. Seek counseling.

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    Karl and Larry and Ralph Reed (none / 0) (#131)
    by jondee on Wed Dec 30, 2009 at 05:49:31 PM EST
    can take turns being Koufax and Roseboro as much as they want, with my blessing.

    Just stop telling others like them that they're destroying the sanctity of marriage and inviting God's wrath in the form of terrorist attacks.

    Is that too much to ask?

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    You can tell them whatever (none / 0) (#132)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed Dec 30, 2009 at 07:16:14 PM EST
    you want.

    Just admit that your attack on Rove as a Gay was also a smear on all Gays.

    And try to not do it again.

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    I'll have you know (5.00 / 0) (#134)
    by jondee on Wed Dec 30, 2009 at 07:49:57 PM EST
    that Im a social liberal, as I've already reiterated numerous times at this site and I resent your implication.

    Try not to do it again. Or, as Karl would say, kill me softly with your love.

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    And your point is that it is okay for (none / 0) (#82)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 09:38:21 PM EST
    Jondee to make a nasty crack about gays as an insult to Rove??

    I repeat. You can't use that as an insult without insulting all gays.

    Maybe you and Jondee should get some counseling.

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    Why do you think it (none / 0) (#86)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 10:37:09 PM EST
    impossible to be against ALL such statenments?

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    Trust me on this one (none / 0) (#89)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 10:54:47 PM EST
    I have heard every excuse made by man to excuse them showing their true feelings.

    You know, it is my bed time so I will leave you with this simple question.

    If you didn't mean it as a slur, why did you do it?

    I think you and Jondee need to examine your own souls and attitudes.

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    Good morning (none / 0) (#101)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed Dec 30, 2009 at 09:30:59 AM EST
    Hundreds of words but the fact remains that you and Jondee use Rove's alleged gay sexual orientation as a smear.

    Now, if in your belief that if Rove is gay that is worthy of a smear, then you have a problem with the fact that some people are gay. Otherwise you wouldn't use it to attack Rove.

    As I said, you can Jondee need to examine your souls. I suggest counseling.

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    We are evil on this site ;) (none / 0) (#54)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 06:06:17 PM EST


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    Okay Okay (none / 0) (#50)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 05:12:33 PM EST
    So he also caused herpes....

    Now, tell me what the orange was, is or will be...

    ;-)

    And make me forget that every intelligence agency in the world believed Iraq had WMD's... I mean Bush and Rove together was some kinda slick.

    How in the world did Obama win????

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    The Orange is Dkos (none / 0) (#56)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 06:13:30 PM EST
    I figured you had been reading the Jane pile on over there.  See, it's okay if Joe Lieberman agrees with Norquist about anything.  That's fine and nobody expects Lieberman to suffer any consequence for that via Dem leadership to include the President.  If Jane Hamsher agrees with Grover though about something, hell hath no fury.

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    Thanks (none / 0) (#64)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 07:29:20 PM EST
    I don't do KOS.... like I said, I Googled her name...

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    Just call Kos (none / 0) (#72)
    by scribe on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 08:32:12 PM EST
    "Orange Satan" or, if you're feeling verbose, "the Great Orange Satan" and then everyone will know.

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    Don't call it that on twitter (none / 0) (#79)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 09:22:24 PM EST
    You can type it in a post like everybody and their dog in the blogosphere when they aren't on that blog........but don't tweet that because that's treason :)

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    Cut the b.s (none / 0) (#57)
    by jondee on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 06:14:33 PM EST
    there were people right within our own CIA who questioned it.

    "Every intelligence agency in the world" And you people expect to be taken seriously.

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    Oh please (none / 0) (#63)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 07:27:24 PM EST
    quit making excuses. And even better, quit giving after the fact claims..... Monday morning QBs are a dime a dozen....

    And Bush didn't even have a No Fly List...

    hehe

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    Well if Monica Crowley (none / 0) (#11)
    by jondee on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 01:22:35 PM EST
    filling in for Ann Coulter, who's donated her body to Tourettes research, says she's an ultra-liberal America-hater, she MUST be.

    It wasn't that it was a trick question (5.00 / 2) (#22)
    by cawaltz on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 02:19:27 PM EST
    what it was is that the edited the damn interview to make her look stupid. Furthermore, as long as people act like that is acceptable behavior it will continue on and NEXT time the candidate that it happens to might be one YOU support.

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    Fox News dosnt (5.00 / 1) (#24)
    by jondee on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 02:26:08 PM EST
    do that kind of disengenuous, strategically clipped quotations, reframing out-of-context stuff constantly?

    What do you mean "next time"?

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    Yeah I always like (5.00 / 3) (#26)
    by cawaltz on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 02:30:26 PM EST
    the other guy did it first defense. It's a classic and reeks of maturity.

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    And reality (5.00 / 1) (#27)
    by jondee on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 02:33:40 PM EST
    and the reminder that politics in America has been a full-contact sport since, like, the 1820's.

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    Rachel Jackson: (none / 0) (#31)
    by jondee on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 03:11:46 PM EST
    "They've dipped their arrows in wormwood and gall and sped them at me".

    Top that, Sarah.

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    Me thinks... (5.00 / 1) (#25)
    by kdog on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 02:28:03 PM EST
    time was wasted unnecessarily then in the editing room over at GE c/o NBC:)

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    It was the curled lip, (none / 0) (#35)
    by gyrfalcon on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 03:34:01 PM EST
    the elevated nostril and the expression of utter contempt that betrayed the fact that it was intended as a "gotcha."  Palin had no problem seeing that, and neither should anybody else.

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    It was a brilliant and fair question (none / 0) (#37)
    by MKS on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 03:50:10 PM EST
    Palin didn't answer it because she couldn't without betraying the right-wing, wacko stuff she reads....

    How hard would it have been to rattle off the local Alaska paper and the standard conservative and liberal publications of the Wall Street Journal, the National Review, the Washington Post, and the New York Times....

    Come on...she is a whacked-out ideologue who reads bizarre stuff or not at all.

     

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    In your fantasy (5.00 / 1) (#74)
    by gyrfalcon on Tue Dec 29, 2009 at 09:13:54 PM EST
    of Palin as Godzilla.

    Really, why some folks have to make her into this monstrous caricature is beyond me.  She's a magnetic but basically garden-variety conservative semi-pol who shouldn't be let anywhere near the reins of national power, though she actually did pretty well in Alaska for the short time she was there.

    Interesting book you might want to read if you're at all interested in reality called "Sarah From Alaska" by a couple of reporters, one from CBS and one from <gasp> Fox.  Very even-handed and straight-up portrait and a good read if you're able to stand having a lot of the most cherished liberal/lefty myths about Palin's monstrousness busted.

    Like the idea that she doesn't/didn't/hasn't read anything but bizarre stuff.

    FWIW, I would also have refused to answer such a degrading and condescending question from a hostile and sneering interviewer, too.  I suspect most people with a shred of self-respect would be PO'd at such a question.

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    Heh (5.00 / 1) (#93)
    by cawaltz on Wed Dec 30, 2009 at 02:05:36 AM EST
    yeah cuz we all know Olbermann is completely unbiased. hahahahahahahahaha. I'm sorry I couldn't say that with a straight face.......

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    Olbermann is a shill (none / 0) (#109)
    by cawaltz on Wed Dec 30, 2009 at 10:27:53 AM EST
    for the left side. Anyone who watched him contort himself into a pretzel over FISA knows he's the left's very on version of FOX.

    I also am smart enough to know all about editors and how the big magic TV box works.

    As for stupidity, I'd wager my intelligence against yours any day and twice on Fridays. The fact that I recognize that Olbermann for what he is is PROOF enough for me on that statement.

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    Olbermann is the Left's version (none / 0) (#119)
    by MKS on Wed Dec 30, 2009 at 12:19:52 PM EST
    of certain talk -how right wingers, I suppose....

    Good, the Left needed some flamethrowers....Olbermann would do well to burnish his credibility...

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    Not POed.... (5.00 / 0) (#117)
    by MKS on Wed Dec 30, 2009 at 12:07:19 PM EST
    Pols love to talk about themselves....If someone asked them, it is a gimme--a chance to talk about whatever they want...

    If someone asked me, I would love to answer....it is an easy question--except for those who get their information from The End is Near Digest.

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    I would love to hear Bill (none / 0) (#118)
    by MKS on Wed Dec 30, 2009