Report: Bush fired Karl Rove at church.
By on Jun 10th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Report: Bush fired Karl Rove at church.
When Karl Rove left his job at the White House in August 2007, he told the Washington Post, “I’m leaving on my own terms.” But a new book by former Time magazine reporter Paul Alexander claims that Bush actually fired Rove, telling him “It’s time for you to go” during the summer of 2007:
“On a Sunday in midsummer, George W. Bush accompanied Karl Rove to the Episcopalian Church Rove sometimes attended,” writes Alexander. “They made their way to the front of the congregation. Then, during their time in the church, Bush gave Rove some stunning news. ‘Karl,’ Bush said, ‘there’s too much heat on you. It’s time for you to go.’”
(HT: Huffington Post)
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June 10th, 2008 at 10:23 amBush gave Rove some stunning news. ‘Karl,’ Bush said, ‘there’s too much heat on you. It’s time for you to go.’”So the DEVIL himself goes to church and gets BURNED……
June 10th, 2008 at 10:23 amCan we Fire the Chimp and Darth, now?
June 10th, 2008 at 10:24 amThere respective evaluations for the year have not been that great, you know?
Good Conservative Christian Fascists always do their dirty work in Church. It’s very convenient to fire a person, confess your sins and never miss a beat of your daily living activities.
Next, we’ll have a drive through church & bank, where you can make a deposit for your account & your soul, save up for salvation and drive away guilt free. The first one would be…
First Unitarian Church Kiosk. the acronym would be…
June 10th, 2008 at 10:26 amCan I have an “AMEN”!!!
June 10th, 2008 at 10:30 amClassic catch-22 for Turdblossom.
Clearly he’s uncomfortable in his new media role. Awkward, rough and not camera ready. Yet this is the best he could do because he had to scramble when Bush cut him loose. I bet he mutters, every day, “…the thanks I get…”
Rove can’t do a Scott McClellan because Rove is guilty of many things and will need a pardon.
Rove can’t attack Bush because Rove made Bush, so in effect he’d be attacking himself.
So very interesting. I wonder if history will remember Rove as tragic figure once he occupies a jail cell?
June 10th, 2008 at 10:31 amLeave it to the Chimp to do the right thing for the wrong reason. It wasn’t “Karl, you have given me too much bad advice, politicized a national tragedy and polarized the government to the point of paralysis all in the name of short term political gain so you have to go.” It was “Karl, you have too many flies on you and I need to salvage my own sorry legacy so you have to go.” Typical.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:33 amWow — Dubya and Rove actually attend church???
June 10th, 2008 at 10:34 amIf I were religious, I’d think it a surprise that neither were struck by lightning in there.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:36 amSounds like a line fron an old ’40’s gangster movie:
“Get away from me,Kid. There’s too much heat, I gotta cut you loose”
June 10th, 2008 at 10:36 amZimzone Says: Good Conservative Christian Fascists always do their dirty work in Church.
Amen!
June 10th, 2008 at 10:37 amI agree with you Misshusseinmolly, I can’t believe they go to church.
The really amazing part is that any Church would allow either one through their front doors.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:37 amI thought Karl was an atheist? Didn’t James Moore report this in his book?
June 10th, 2008 at 10:38 amRove attends an Episcopal church, Tom DeLay attends church, Ann Coulter attends church — and many more people who drive the neocon agenda attend church and loudly proclaim their Christian faith.
The sad thing is that it’s pretty obvious none of them listen to the sermons. Except to search for soundbites they can use to further their agenda.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:41 amChickensh!t Bush.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:43 amRove, the atheist, attends church with the chimp, who takes the opportunity to fire his ass there, so to avoid dealing with Rove’s temper.
After all the years that Rove paved the way for Bush, the boy-king doesn’t have the balls to fire him face to face in his office.
They are each so cowardly, so immoral, so unethical so despicable, they deserve each other.
Bush:
June 10th, 2008 at 10:44 amKarl, you’re looking rather fair and balanced today.
It’s obvious that Bush wanted to pick a place where Rove couldn’t make a scene. Most people would pick a pretty public restaurant, but Bush chose a venue even more inappropriate for scene-making. Gotta give him points for creativity.
My question is — what was Bush afraid of? He could have talked to Rove right there in the White House. Is he afraid of Rove’s tantrums? He’s protected by the Secret Service, for crying out loud!
June 10th, 2008 at 10:44 amIt’s all part of global warming, Karl. Expect the heat to get worse in a few months!
June 10th, 2008 at 10:44 am“On a Sunday in midsummer, ‘Grasshopper’ Bush accompanied Karl Rove. Then, during their time in the church, Bush gave Rove some stunning news. ‘Turd Blossom,’ Bush said, ‘there’s too much heat on you. It’s time for you to go.”
Turd Blossom responds quietly, “Ahh Grasshopper Bush, your great wisdom speaks again. May our lies and deceit forever remain silent.”
June 10th, 2008 at 10:46 amQue: Godfather music in the background.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:46 amGawd. WHAT a national embarrassment on a galactic scale!
Can’t we be rid of these asshat clowns before 1/09???????????!
Seems to me that no one has left this administration of their own accord.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:47 amI’m guessing no reporters outside the church, unlike the White House, where Rove could have spoken to reporters. Managed to keep this under wraps for a year. Too bad Bush never applied the same thoughtfulness to any of his policies.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:48 amI don’t know, folks… as delicious as this narrative is, it strikes me as kind of fanciful.
In other words, I don’t believe it. It sounds too melodramatic.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:51 amEven Rove wouldn’t have expected to be fired at church. Score one for the Chimp.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:51 amBWAHAHAHAHAH!!! Oh, the ferrousness of it!!! ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!
June 10th, 2008 at 10:51 amOf course, the Nixon prayer session with Kissinger is pretty effin’ melodramatic, too, and that apparently was true…
Maybe tragically flawed presidents are just prone to melodrama.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:57 amI’m kind of wondering . . . do you think that I could get GDumbya and Darth Cheney to come to church with me this Sunday? I have some thoughts that I would like to share with them.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:57 amRove’s earlier assignment to bug each White House office meant no chances could be taken: What’re the odds they’d have anyone listening in on their conversation at church? Could’ve been on the golf course, but — what with the President’s sacrifice — looked like church was the only option.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:59 am“too much heat on you”
Sounds like a phrase that would be used in the mafia, not the government.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:02 am“too much heat on you” Sounds like a phrase that would be used in the mafia, not the government.
Bingo!
June 10th, 2008 at 11:03 amI think Bush was still sour grapes from the monumental loss in the 2006 elections, despite Karl’s “math.”
Until that point, Karl was the much lauded “Architect” upon whom Bush heaped praise. After that, he was a personal embarrassment. And needed to be pushed out.
Such is politics among the palace guard.
Rove (supposedly) sold his wildly successful mailing/fundraising business in 1999 at Bush’s behest to join the campaign. That business (which Karl supposedly no longer owns) has been raking hundreds of millions in dough during this Administration. And Karl has been earning $161,000 a year. Only $161,000.
Now I have my susupicions if Karl was receiving kickbacks or not during his government service, but regardless, I wonder if he feels if it was worth is now that he’s out.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:04 amIt is quite the poetic justice for Turdblossom to get “flushed” in his very own pasty white guy Xtian church.
Heh heh
June 10th, 2008 at 11:11 amAs Parishioners opened windows to clear the distinct smell of sulfur, they noticed little turd droppings down the aisle leading out of the Church. ‘What’s that?’, one asked the other.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:17 am‘Well, it’s either spent political capital or that Bush guy just scared the shit out of that porky fellow he had with him’.
“There’s too much heat on you.” Said the blazing man to Karl Rove.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:20 amralph the wonder llama Says:
I don’t know, folks… as delicious as this narrative is, it strikes me as kind of fanciful.
In other words, I don’t believe it. It sounds too melodramatic.
I don’t know about that. It could be that Bush chose that location so Turdblossom couldn’t start screaming and cursing at him. If Bush could only figure out how to send a text message, he could have saved himself a trip to church.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:34 am2 classy guys interacting :-)
June 10th, 2008 at 11:43 amAnd so it turns out that Rove was thrown under the bus. I realize it’s probably futile to understand the criminal mind, but why in the world do so many people pledge loyalty to an organization that will toss them out with the trash the second they outlive their usefulness?
Not that Rove doesn’t deserve it…
June 10th, 2008 at 11:57 amNo way that the puppeteer had the strings cut by the puppet! Rove created Bush and watched Pinochio’s nose grow longer than he every thought it would. He got out on his own to cover his own rear and salvage whatever reputation he could pull out of the mud. Good read from way back. The Houdini Protocol
June 10th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Bush: “You’re fired, buddy… Body of Christ???”
June 10th, 2008 at 12:56 pmThat church must be real proud to have Satan sitting right there among them.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:08 pmIgnorance at 10:47, I believe that Karen Hughes left on her own twice. She saw that she was losing a power struggle the first time so she went home. The second time she saw that she was useless in trying to convince Muslim women how much w respected them and wanted them to have full citizenship in their countries.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:08 pmPaul Alexander is a former writer for Time magazine and coming on the heels of Scott McClellan’s book, it will be fun to watch Karl Rove squirm on Fox Noise. The book is out today and the author is making plenty of media appearances I am sure.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:12 pmI watched Election Central with Campbell Brown on CNN last night at the gym as I sweated for an hour on the elliptical trainer. She plans to have him as a guest tonight (Tuesday) and MSNBC’s Countdown will surely have him on at some point. I imagine we have only seen the tip of the iceberg in the criminal and unethical doings of this administration. Shutting down any hope of a recount in Florida and taking office by being installed in a coup de tat by the United States Supreme Court in 2000 shows these people will stop at nothing to keep their political power. Just look at the attempts to fire US attorneys, imprison Democratic Alabama Gov. Don Siegleman, take bribes from Jack Abramoff, cut voters off the rolls by cumbersome ID laws, let New Orleans get destroyed, reward defense contractors, and lie this country into a endless war. Obviously Satan wants his soul back.
God musta’ told him . . .
June 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pmTwo things about this story don’t ring true. One, that they were in church, and two, that Bush had the balls to fire Rove.
Doesn’t add up.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pmThe rumors of the horse’s head in Karl’s bed are untrue?
June 10th, 2008 at 2:28 pmI knew it was you, Fredo!
June 10th, 2008 at 2:47 pmBush didn’t have the balls to fire Rove at the office, like most bosses do. He’s afraid of Rove’s temper, so he fired him in church, where Karl wouldn’t make a scene.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:28 pmTo paraphrase GOP attack ads, if Bush can’t stand up to Rove, how can he stand up to The Terrorists?
I have heard that Chimpy has an absolutely vile temper and this is pretty much in character with the way his family functions. Get your hands very dirty/bloody but NEVER take responsibility for it. Sound typical to me.
Remember,when the announcement was made that Rove was leaving the administration it was all he could do to keep his composure–he was in tears? I remember that day, like it was yesterday, and I said to a good friend watching it with me at the gym, looks like Lardass has been canned.
The two of them deserve each other–genius???–criminal is more like it and a coward.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pmIf you can’t stand the heat, get out of my church
June 16th, 2008 at 4:24 am