Thursday, February 26, 2009

More shameless Karl Rove projection

Now Karl Rove accuses President Obama of using straw man argumentation to a "troubling" degree?

WHAT?????????

As this post correctly points out, George W. Bush knew few argumentative devices other than the straw man.

And the examples from Obama that Mr. Rove thinks are "straw men" are actually, you know, accurate.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Friday, February 13, 2009

A good summary of Karl Rove's carreer

This struck me as a very accurate summary:
The good news is, Karl Rove no longer works in the White House, so his capacity to do real damage to the country has been vastly reduced. The bad news is, Rove remains a major media figure, including writing columns for the Wall Street Journal, where he continues to annoy.

That this clown helped run the executive branch of government for seven years remains vaguely horrifying. Then again, it also helps explain the mess we're in now.
Rove calls Obama's approach to the stimulus plan "my way or the highway". A CLASSIC case of the projection that they've engaged in for so long. Not to mention the boldface lying.

p.s. In this post, Noam Scheiber dissects a single paragraph of Rove's editorial. He misses one falsehood: Rove calling the Democrats' spending "permanent". The entire point of the stimulus is that it is temporary --- unlike the permanent tax cuts that Bush and Rove fought so much for.