Thursday, April 23, 2009

Without a teleprompter

Here is President Obama speaking at a news conference, without a teleprompter.

Compare to George W. Bush.

That entire teleprompter canard, courtesy of Fox and friends, is nothing but another instance of the Karl Rove maxim: attack your enemy's strengths, not his weaknesses.

The man has a talent for projection, that's sure

So Karl Rove, on Fox news, compares the investigation of torture under the Bush Administration to third world dictators:

...what we're going to do is we're going to turn ourselves into the moral equivalent of a Latin American country run [by] colonels in mirrored sunglasses...

Of course, it is the practices being investigated, themselves, that are reminiscent of said dictators. It is Rove himself who has done much to put the United States of American on the road to a Banana Republic.

On this subject, TPM makes an apt Junta analogy here.