Rove: My ‘tail and horns are retractable.’
Rove: My ‘tail and horns are retractable.’
During his speech last night at George Washington University, Karl Rove was interrupted by a group of protesters who unfurled a banner reading “War Criminal.” The protesters were heckled by some in the audience. A couple of Rove supporters shouted “tase them” to the protesters.
Later on, a student asked Rove why some of his detractors believe he is a “fundamentally bad human being.” Rove joked, “First of all, the tail and the horns are retractable.” “I don’t know! I’m a myth,” Rove explained. “I mean, I’m like Grendel of Beowulf; I’m not often seen but people talk about me a lot. I don’t know.” Watch it:
Another student asked Rove whether he would still support the Iraq war if he knew then what he knows now. “It is what it is,” Rove said, showing no remorse for his involvement in leading the nation into Iraq.
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What’s to say? he knows he’s a traitor, and shouldn’t be surprised when he’s finally strung up.
March 29th, 2008 at 3:19 pmRetractable yes, yet they’re still there.
March 29th, 2008 at 3:20 pmthe tail and the horns are retractable
March 29th, 2008 at 3:21 pmAt last, KKKRoverBoy has uttered a truth.
Im still amazed that people will listen to a political hack that drove Bush’s poll numbers to record lows and has nearly destroyed the GOP base with his divisive smear. And when a woman as quiet and unassuming as Laura Bush calls Rove a necessary evil she probably said it for good reason.
March 29th, 2008 at 3:31 pmLaura Bush called him a necessary evil? I missed that one.
March 29th, 2008 at 3:33 pmhttp://thinkprogress.org/ 2007/ 09/ 04/ draper-laura-bush-rove/
Actually it was Draper that said she considers him a necessary evil.. Laura refers to him as Pigpen
March 29th, 2008 at 3:39 pmAnd no, those are not horns and a tail, those look like neckbolts and a falafel
March 29th, 2008 at 3:40 pmI wonder if he’ll ever be charged and tried for anything or if President Bush will pardon his entire administration after the elections.
March 29th, 2008 at 3:44 pmGreatest facilitator of executive corruption in the 20th century!
March 29th, 2008 at 3:45 pmNo self-respecting demon would have retractable claws and horns. Karl must be one of those cheap, Chinese-made demons.
March 29th, 2008 at 3:46 pmSo?
March 29th, 2008 at 3:47 pm“It is what it is.” How very Zen-like.
And you are what you are-a vile, lying thoroughly disgusting pig.
There, I feel better.
March 29th, 2008 at 3:56 pmA whole new generation of draft dodging chicken hawks.
March 29th, 2008 at 4:00 pmWe’re doomed.
Doc Rock Says:
March 29th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Greatest facilitator of executive corruption in the 20th century!
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That’s a bit of a stretch, don’t you think?
How about, ahem, ONE of the greatest fellatr… oops, wrong word… one of the greatest facilitators of executive corruption in the 20th century.
March 29th, 2008 at 4:15 pm21ST century too
March 29th, 2008 at 4:24 pmAnother student asked Rove whether he would still support the Iraq war if he knew then what he knows now.
Hey, buddy, he knew then what he knows now. NO WMDs.
March 29th, 2008 at 4:34 pmAnother student asked Rove whether he would still support the Iraq war if he knew then what he knows now. “It is what it is,”
Can anyone explain how “it is what it is” in any way answers the student’s question?
March 29th, 2008 at 4:58 pmWhat is, Karl? Why not ask the Iraqi people how their lives have changed? That’s what is, not the dizziness we get from spinmeisters like Karl weaving their lore. I’m aftaid Karl is more like the author of Beowulf than the monster itself.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:01 pmWhat “it” (iraq) really is is a massive, Republican mess with no hope of any other Republican fixing it. Since McCain knows Iraq cannot be “fixed” or “won” his only hope (if elected) is to keep it going praying he can make America forget about it like Bush has done. “So” and “it is what it is” is more proof the Republicans have NOTHING for America.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:05 pmWow. I’ve always thought Karl Rove was a Decepticon, but I never thought he’d admit to it.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:08 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
March 29th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Another student asked Rove whether he would still support the Iraq war if he knew then what he knows now. “It is what it is,”
Can anyone explain how “it is what it is” in any way answers the student’s question?
It’s a slightly longer version of “so?”.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:10 pmWe can arrange to have this guy found dead in a remote area at some point in the future. It doesnt have to be next week or a month from now. But it will happen. I just need donations from interested parties to make this happen.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:28 pmThe horns and tail get hung with a rope around the same neck.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:38 pmWhere do we send it JBaddo?
March 29th, 2008 at 5:40 pmgummitch Says:
March 29th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
It’s a slightly longer version of “so?”.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks, gumm.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:45 pmSo you use a rope soaked in holy water. Just to make sure use silver bullets and a stake through what’s left of his heart.
March 29th, 2008 at 6:17 pmwill he retract the tail and horns when the siegleman case catches up with him?… oh wait he probably has a briefcase full of fill-in-the-blank pardons and the only classified copy of the NSPD-51
March 29th, 2008 at 6:47 pmRove: My ‘tail and horns are retractable.’
… and his brain inflatable and deflatable. It is the latter characteristics that are most relevant.
Cheers,
March 29th, 2008 at 7:09 pmThe business about the horns and stuff is exactly the same as his answer to a similar question when he spoke at Choate about a month ago. Must be his focus-group tested and approved hard-wired response.
March 29th, 2008 at 8:10 pmoldswede
He doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong. Someday he will be behind bars.
March 29th, 2008 at 8:27 pmI know I’m only one person, but could we please not talk about this amoral criminal anymore when it does not involve the current political atmosphere, OK, TP? I mean who cares what he says or does now? I realize he’s a total flamer who has an over-inflated view of himself, but a myth? Puh-lease, I don’t even myth him.
March 29th, 2008 at 8:56 pmI don’t know about tail and horns, but I know no heart when I hear it. He shows the same indifference to human loss as Cheney and deserves the same fate, namely trial at the Hague for crimes against humanity and the same fate as those tried at Nuremberg.
March 29th, 2008 at 10:44 pmMy tail and horns are retractable, but the venom remains.
March 30th, 2008 at 6:48 amRove is clearly a War Criminal and inherently an Evil Human Being.
Right along with Cheney and the rest of the Krime Kabal that has resided at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue the past 8 years.
I don’t know about you guys buy it sure seems a hell of a lot longer than 8 years.
A place in Hell is waiting for Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Rice, Hadley, Wolfowitz, Powell etc.
March 30th, 2008 at 11:16 amPace, Gates, Patraeus will surely
Pace, Gates, Patraeus etc. will surely be there, too.
March 30th, 2008 at 11:27 amHis tail and horns retractable are signs of cut and run.
Didn’t Rove leave(cut and run) from the Bush Adm prematurely during a time of WAR? Where’s Rove’s patriotic loyalty?
Its in the same place it was during the Vietnam War. “Tail Retracted”…
Rove will never allow himself to go one any news show where he would be subject to full scrutiny and not just the Republican loyalist to party above America cross examinations.
Rove says Obama should stop saying the pre emptiveness
(T)reasons of the war in Iraq was fabricated. The whole world din’t have the same conclusion Bush and Co. say of Iraq.
Remember France? Remember the GOP Childishly ill treatment of a sovereign country as France? Remember freedom fries?
Remember the U.N. conclusion of Bush’s war pleas?
Remember the hate for the U.N. by all the GOP and America GOP elected diplomats?
As I recall, the U.N. had no problem with us addressing Afganistan after 9/11.
Rove should have no platform to speak out for he does not speak for Americans and doesn’t believe in listening to Americans. He believes in having someone else put their life on the line in defense of this nation by his “ruling” party.
Like Cheney and his FIVE DEFERMENTS because he had more important things to do for himself and doing for America was not one of those reasons.
March 30th, 2008 at 3:07 pmThe Time for this War Criminal to be behind barrs is overdue!
March 30th, 2008 at 3:16 pm…and I thought TREASON in America was punished by death.
March 30th, 2008 at 3:17 pmThis is my first and last comment on this web site: “Traitor? Evil? Demon? What??? Put your thinking caps on. Please pay attention to what’s real and not just to the nasty lies that are told on the nastiest of blogs. Learn. Please don’t be easily led. I’m having a nice day; I hope you are also.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:12 pmThen shouldn’t Alec Baldwin, Barbara Streisand, Sean Penn, Jane Fonda…the list continues…all be put to death??
How quickly they forget.
ditto, except I’d change it to Please don’t be easily misled.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:03 pmWhat “it” (iraq) really is is a massive, Republican mess with no hope of any other Republican fixing it. Since McCain knows Iraq cannot be “fixed” or “won” his only hope (if elected) is to keep it going praying he dell inspiron 5100 battery,dell inspiron 5150 battery can make America forget about it like Bush has done. “So” and “it is what it is” is more proof the Republicans have NOTHING for America.
October 15th, 2008 at 4:48 am