Karl Rove Falsely Claims He Never Threatened Anybody Who Disagreed With Him
Karl Rove Falsely Claims He Never Threatened Anybody Who Disagreed With Him
Last night on Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, former Bush adviser Karl Rove brazenly claimed that he never used his White House position to threaten anyone.
Host Bill O’Reilly caught Rove off-guard with this question: “Now in the Bush White House, did you guys ever threaten anybody who disagreed with you?” Rove hesitated, sputtered, and responded, “Not that — not that — you know — not that I recall.” O’Reilly pressed the point:
O’REILLY: So you never threatened?
ROVE: No.
The smirk on Rove’s face suggested that even he had a hard time believing his own answer. Watch it:
Rove — the political architect of dirty tricks — clearly did use his position in the White House to engage in vindictive political attacks against his perceived enemies:
– Punished Iraq war whistleblower Joe Wilson by outing his wife Valerie Plame, who was an undercover intelligence agent
– Drove a politically-charged prosecution of former Democratic Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman
– Orchestrated the political firings of U.S. attorneys
– Threatened the late Michael Connell and demanded he “take the fall” for election fraud in Ohio
– Pressured the Texas Secretary of State to fire an attorney in his office for making comments that reflected poorly on him
All this does not even include Rove’s alleged role in the Swift Boat smears against John Kerry, the whisper campaign against Ann Richards that questioned her sexuality, and the attacks on John McCain’s mental health in South Carolina in 2000.
In 2007, Rove also issued this public threat against House GOP congressmen who dared to criticize Bush on Iraq. “Nobody can risk looking disrespectful to the president without paying a price, and they need to understand that,” he said.
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Another day, another conversation between two sociopaths.
March 14th, 2009 at 9:14 amLying, Thieving, Terrorist & Traitor:
http://plungerspeaks.blogspot.com
March 14th, 2009 at 9:15 am“Rove planning to ‘name names’ of Bush haters in his new book.” He’ll have to publish enough volumes for half of the US and pretty much the whole rest of the civilized world.
March 14th, 2009 at 9:17 amI guess the book would be too short if it named the supporters of W.
March 14th, 2009 at 9:21 amIt wasn’t just Rove doing the threatening. I remember when Joe Biden was picked by Barack Obama to the VP and Biden said in his acceptance speech to the members of Congress, (paraphrasing but pretty close), “You will never hear the words, ‘The vice president is on the phone’”, which meant Dick Cheney was constantly calling Congress to get what he wanted and I’m sure it was most likely threatening calls for Biden to make such a statement to Congress as he did.
March 14th, 2009 at 9:28 amRove is a dirt bag, plain and simple. His cynical criminal machinations go back to the early 1970s, when he fixed the election for president of the College Republicans.
The bogus FBI investigations of Democrats in Texas during the 1980s and 1990s which fueled the GOP takeover of every statewide office in Texas.
In 1986, Rove bugged his own office while he was working for the campaign of former Governor Bill Clements and then tried to blame it on incumbent Governor Mark White.
In 1989 and 1990, every single Democrat running statewide in Texas was investigated by the FBI. The man behind it was Rove’s friend in the FBI, Greg Rampton.
Karl Rove is a criminal. He’s amoral. How anyone in the media thinks it’s acceptable to pay him a salary for offering commentary and analysis is beyond me. They ought to be incensed at a liar who thinks nothing of using the criminal justice system for political advantage.
March 14th, 2009 at 9:30 amMaybe KKKarl has Alzheimer’s?
March 14th, 2009 at 9:48 amEveryone here this morning has said everything I want to say also.
March 14th, 2009 at 9:49 amRove’s countenance belies his words of denial, but that sort of thing doesn’t hold up legally, I know.
I also had the impression that OReilly knows Rove is lying and smugly presented Rove an opportunity to do so.
Anyone who cares to look at the historical facts of the acts of Karl Rove, would find ample evidence, proof, of his threats, his illegal activities, his lack of morality and ethics, and his treason.
March 14th, 2009 at 9:50 amKarl Rove is a Monster! It speaks volumnes that he sits on his big fat a** and talks to Oreilly….”I never threatened anybody”! He’s so damn comfortable lying! There is a special place in hell……. for the both of them.
March 14th, 2009 at 9:50 amIf he’s talkin’,he’s lying!!(BUSH BROKE WORLD)
March 14th, 2009 at 9:54 amBut still, Karl is not a threatening type, really. Like most Republicans, he’s a covert, sneaky, dirty-tricks kind of guy. It takes a modicum of courage to threaten someone, after all.
March 14th, 2009 at 9:55 amPerry logan Says:
But still, Karl is not a threatening type, really. Like most Republicans, he’s a covert, sneaky, dirty-tricks kind of guy. It takes a modicum of courage to threaten someone, after all.
Technically, Karl is right. He didn’t “threaten” people, he just stabbed them in the back, poisoned their wine or had someone big and strong garotte them. No threats needed.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:00 amIt takes a modicum of courage to threaten someone, after all.
And usually leaves a trail.
But is Rove still welcome in republican enclaves? I don’t hear much about Karl on the lucrative speaker’s-circuit.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:01 amThe truly sick thing is that Rove knows he has gotten away with unscrupulous and illegal activities. Not only does he not care or feel remorse. He RELISHES the fact. I think he is proud of his machinations and enjoys going on tv, making big money, and flaunting his status in the face of congressional subpoenas. He oozes self-satisfaction, knowing full well that he will NEVER (I hope I am wrong.) pay for his deeds.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:01 amTake comfort. He will get reborn as a lab animal, again and again and again.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:05 amThat’s a rough fate Perry. Albeit not an undeserved one, but rough nonetheless.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:09 amHow about the push-pull phone call operation during the 2000 S. Carolina repub. primary against John McCain insinuating he an illegitimate biracial daughter? A famous Rove campaign of fear-hate.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:11 amIf ANYBODY needs to be took out behind the barn and have the right, living shit beat outta him, it’s rover-boy.
I’d bet it happened a LOT when he was a chubby little fukker hanging around the boys restroom at school.
He seems to have forgotten the lesson, and needs a reminder…
March 14th, 2009 at 10:15 amRove is just another example of the old saying…”The good die young and pricks live forever”. I hope I live long enough to dance on his grave.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:18 amOff topic, but I couldn’t wait for the ThinkFast:
Stock markets finished up this week. Surely we can expect the trolls to be here today giving Obama some credit for his economic leadership. Right?
March 14th, 2009 at 10:21 amI would never wish Rove a violent end, but if he were to contract a debilitating disease, I’d re-think my endorsement of atheism.
Just say ‘in, Lord…
March 14th, 2009 at 10:22 am“Nobody can risk looking disrespectful to the president without paying a price, and they need to understand that,” he said.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:31 amAnd I’m sure Rove is saying this to all the Republicans that are saying they hope Obama fails.
Two walking talking rectums, who cares?
March 14th, 2009 at 10:36 amRiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:37 amHow Rove’s brain works.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:51 amSay the phrase; “I never told John you were stupid.” repeatedly each time changing the word of emphasis.
I never told John you were stupid.
I never told John you were stupid.
I never told John you were stupid.
I never told John you were stupid.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the improving status of GM and Bank of America…
March 14th, 2009 at 10:58 amtbone Says: Stock markets finished up this week. Surely we can expect the trolls to be here today giving Obama some credit for his economic leadership. Right?
Consumer confidence has also increased since he took office, for both January and February.
There are people who now have jobs that had either lost them, or were about to lose them.
In less than 3 months, Obama has managed to do more to help our country than George W. Bush has done in his entire life. I hope America has learned its lesson and will continue to elect smart, progressive realists.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:58 amWhy are my posts inverted?
March 14th, 2009 at 10:59 amCosmic convergence?
March 14th, 2009 at 11:02 amGood writing. Great to have the facts at hand to refute public enemy number three.
March 14th, 2009 at 11:05 amIt took the NSA longer to read and release the 1st post?
March 14th, 2009 at 11:08 amI think it would be great if Rove goes to Canada with George Bush this month. The Canadians could arrest them both in one shot. Oh how a girl can dream!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Lawyer_seeks_to_prosecute_Bush_for_0312.html
Naaaaaah, instead of barring, arrest them Mr. & Mrs. Canadians!
March 14th, 2009 at 11:11 amThe more Rove talks the more he reminds people of the GOP alternative. Keep it up dooshbag, keep it up.
http://www.pufferfishblog.com/
March 14th, 2009 at 11:20 amQuestion : Did you every worked at White House ?
Rove : No, Never.
March 14th, 2009 at 11:33 amI see the pigeyedsackofshit is practicing his “not that I recall” shtick in preparation for his behind closed doors, no recordings, We the People don’t have a right to hear testimony.
The most appropriate way to die for this turd sans blossom is to slip in the show, break his neck, and lie there for a week, stinking and (more) bloated. And for the National Enquirer to find the body.
Rove: Ruining lives and careers since the 1970’s.
PEACE
March 14th, 2009 at 11:37 amAnd that was “shower” not “show”.
Must.Have.Coffee!
PEACE
March 14th, 2009 at 11:38 amRight.
March 14th, 2009 at 11:52 amTrolls and all repugniscum will not give Obama any credit for this as it has all happened too soon. But of course, they were very quick to blame him for the downturn of the last four months (having begun one year ago, when Bush was in charge and fiddling).
Actually, Gibbs said yesterday, they are not unfolding any mission accomplished banner because they are realistic and know that a good week – while a very pleasant change – does not mean the worst is over.
To your point, however, I agree.
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
In order to gain the political control that they enjoyed over the last ten years, Republican moderates and Reagan conservatives made a pact with the devil (faux Christians, bigots and misanthropes) to achieve the numbers they needed to defeat Democrats. They/Rove made a strategic decision to manipulate and exploit the ignorance, fears and hatreds of dysfunctional and vulnerable voters in order to win elections rather than lose them by being intellectually and morally honest.
Today, those who conspired with the devil are caught between wanting to disassociate themselves with and or casting out the devil they empowered and the karmic reality that they don’t have the numbers to hold on to or regain power without continuing to accept and “advocate” the immoral values, hypocrisies and corruptions that are dividing and destroying their party. The survival of today’s shrinking Republican Party has become so dependent on extremism that they have no significant power left WITH or WITHOUT the support of America’s increasingly pernicious lunatic fringe.
The idiom about choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea is certainly appropriate as Republicans are facing the dilemma of choosing between two equally undesirable alternatives that both result in Republican impotence in mainstream American politics. They are suffering the consequences of their treachery. Their irresponsible propping up of George W. Bush cost them their credibility, and their disgraceful and shameless licking of Rush Limbaugh’s storm trooper boots is costing them their viability.
March 14th, 2009 at 11:54 amGood Morning youngsters, you covered all the name’s I would of put out there about pig boy so will skip that..I still have a hard time looking at his ugly self and wondering if it’s him or limpdick, they look so much alike and seem so similar..Twin’s maybe.?
I do continue to wonder why this evil piece of crap has been allowed to skate along with other’s of the reich.?..What’s with the Dem’s in power.? Why haven’t they pushed for defending our constitution and the law…No one here would of been allowed to do what he, Mier’s and other’s have done…Very troubling indeed…Happy posting.P.B. & J
March 14th, 2009 at 11:57 amI can understand how Rove can say he never threatened anyone. Threats are things you don’t necessarily follow up on. If you actually do the deed, it ceases to be a threat and becomes an action. A semantically smooth bit of juggling but since Republicans live in the now and can’t even spell history, it seems to work for them.
March 14th, 2009 at 12:20 pmIt’s either that or threatening is such a natural response to Karl Rove that he can’t see the forest through the trees at this point? Hey could be.
March 14th, 2009 at 12:26 pmThe only thing I need to see from Rove is him in an orange jumpsuit being led to prison. The only thing I need to hear from him are whimpers. Nothing else will do.
And while I’m on images, will Olbermann quit showing Rush jumping up and down – it’s freaking me out. I have to close my eyes or change the chanel everytime. It’s the scariest creepiest thing I’ve ever seen!
March 14th, 2009 at 12:41 pmIn Rove’s sewaged mind, he can rationalize that, indeed, he never “threatened.”
He promised consequences.
He had his people convey messages.
And that phrase “I do not recall” means only at that instant he is not recalling. It in no way conveys the ability to recall.
Really, really hoping that questions are framed to avoid the possibility of squirming, for example, using the phrase “communicate” rather than “say” or “tell.”
“The whole truth” means nothing to this slug.
March 14th, 2009 at 12:52 pmWhat about that whole tirade of a few years back, during which the person (can’t remember who) waiting in the hall outside Mr. Rove’s office heard the lovely public servant shouting/screaming, “We’ll f…. him! We’ll f… him like he’s never been f…ed before!!!”
Then, according to the first-hand report, a red-faced Mr. Rove opened the door and politely greeted the person waiting.
Guess that was a “promise” too.
March 14th, 2009 at 12:58 pmI’m also sure he never threatened to imply that mcsame had fathered an illegitimate black baby in 2000.
He never threatened, he just did.
March 14th, 2009 at 1:01 pmshouldn’t that be libtards?
March 14th, 2009 at 1:13 pmWow here is my chance to go back in time and change a few things it seems…
March 14th, 2009 at 1:15 pmWell we all know what is going on when Rove’s lips are moving
March 14th, 2009 at 1:15 pmNow, now there. Karl Rove has been a great public servant and a great supporter of president bush all these years. And for his years of service, I only wish that he retire and enjoy his retirement as much as his mentor Lee Atwater did.
March 14th, 2009 at 1:17 pmAnd the GOP call themselves God loving people. Yeah right. Can Rove or the others ever tell the truth?
March 14th, 2009 at 1:39 pmThe real issue is does the United States enforce the rule of law or not? If I ignored a congressional supeona, I would go directly to jail. Apparently the law does not apply to all Americans equally.
I submit that the United States is currently in a state of anarchy. The citizens of the United States are no longer have any constitutional obligation to follow ANY law, if those laws do not apply to Rove, Bush and Cheney. Until such time as justice is applied to these three, who have already been tried and found guilty in the court of public opinion, America is not a nation of laws.
March 14th, 2009 at 2:47 pmHope, the GOP do love god, probably have a direct fax line. What they dislike are all the stinky, sinful people, Republicans excepted.
March 14th, 2009 at 2:52 pmGeorge W. Bush wouldn’t have been able to murder nearly one million Iraqi civilians without the help of Karl Rove and “journalists” like Bill O’Reilly.
March 14th, 2009 at 2:55 pmI tried to post a brief quote from this Ron Suskind article but the post didn’t go through. My excerpt did contain some strong language by Rove (which I ‘d carefully euphemized with strategically-placed asterisks). If the filter here that sensitive?
Anyway, my point was that Rove didn’t threaten; he simply announced to his team what was going to happen to the intended target, then set about making it happen. When a court sentences someone to the death penalty, that’s not intended as a threat, either.
March 14th, 2009 at 3:08 pmPatty @ 46:
… the person (can’t remember who) waiting in the hall outside Mr. Rove’s office heard the lovely public servant shouting/screaming, “We’ll f…. him! We’ll f… him like he’s never been f…ed before!!!”
That’s the article I was trying to quote. The person sitting outside was Ron Suskind. I guess I must’ve left too many letters intact in the quoted f-word.
March 14th, 2009 at 3:13 pmLevi the Oracle Says:
Apparently the law does not apply to all Americans equally.
If justice existed in America, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney would have been arrested, convicted, and sentenced to hang for putting nearly 6,000 American Marines in the grave for a pack of lies.
March 14th, 2009 at 3:14 pmHow humorous is this- my Ron Suskind quote & link ‘way way earlier apparently censored. Well, *g*- I’ll try not to quote KKKarl this time the way he apparently f-cking said this according to Suskind:
http://www.ronsuskind.com/newsite/articles/archives/000032.html
“Eventually, I met with Rove. I arrived at his office a few minutes early, just in time to witness the Rove Treatment, which, like LBJ’s famous browbeating style, is becoming legend but is seldom reported. Rove’s assistant, Susan Ralston, said he’d be just a minute. She’s very nice, witty and polite. Over her shoulder was a small back room where a few young men were toiling away. I squeezed into a chair near the open door to Rove’s modest chamber, my back against his doorframe.
Inside, Rove was talking to an aide about some political stratagem in some state that had gone awry and a political operative who had displeased him. I paid it no mind and reviewed a jotted list of questions I hoped to ask. But after a moment, it was like ignoring a tornado flinging parked cars. “We will f_ck him. Do you hear me? We will fu_ck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever f_cked him!”
March 14th, 2009 at 3:21 pmOne low life liar talking to another low life liar.
March 14th, 2009 at 3:36 pm#7 1st Republic 14th Sta
Adding to your comments:
Even as a young man in his 20’s he was already tainted with evil.
March 14th, 2009 at 3:37 pmhad enough @ #62- Standard for all sneaknpeek agencies worldwide to garner info- going through the trash. One turns up the most interesting, not to mention nauseating, things therein.
Also many useful things.
March 14th, 2009 at 4:06 pmRove is, to use a Bushim, an “evildoer”, perhaps the most evil men to in the history of our country to be in a position of power. He went to high school where I live; he was a complete nonentity, not bright, not popular, and certainly NOT a leader. Those were the days!
March 14th, 2009 at 4:17 pm(spelling corrected—I wrote the first posting in a hurry) Rove is, to use a Bushism, an “evildoer”, perhaps the most evil men to in the history of our country to be in a position of power. He went to high school where I live; he was a complete nonentity, not bright, not popular, and certainly NOT a leader. Those were the days!
March 14th, 2009 at 4:19 pmMore evidence that we need a permanent republican minority in this country.
March 14th, 2009 at 4:32 pmNow if O’Reilley were a comedian rather than a pseudo-journalist lackey, he would have then said,
Roll tape 210.
Then Roll tape 220.
etc.
March 14th, 2009 at 4:42 pmRove plays dirty, but so do all politicians.
March 14th, 2009 at 4:52 pmRove needs to die.
March 14th, 2009 at 4:58 pmI am wondering what O’Reilley was up to. He put Rove on the spot with the question and Rove’s reaction told all. I’m not a big fan of O’Reilly’s but these republicans are finding it hard to play dittoheads. Thank you Rush!!!
March 14th, 2009 at 5:12 pmAlecto Says:
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Rove needs to die.
ya gotta love those peaceful libs
March 14th, 2009 at 5:16 pmA simple man
March 14th, 2009 at 5:28 pmTell the truth Rove makes you think of Ned Beatty’s Deliverance character doesn’t he?
69 Alecto Says:
71 A simple man Says:
Yes, you gotta love people that want to see a criminal sentenced to death for his crimes. How horrible it is that “libs” want to see US law actually enforced to protect Americans. Is anyone besides me terrified of the utter lack of respect for the law shown by the entire Republican machine?
President Obama, we are waiting for some justice and we won’t be patient forever.
March 14th, 2009 at 5:42 pmSuch a week no for such an experienced liar. The master of propaganda is running out of gas? It’s hard work to keep the lies going and spinning new lies to cover the old lies.
For just a moment at the end there, O’Really? got him where he’s vulnerable, in the “just between us two gangsters” moment while his defences were down, and he acually thought honestly about those threats he constructed for Bush. Busted!
March 14th, 2009 at 5:44 pmThrow his ass in jail!
March 14th, 2009 at 6:59 pmIt’s truly an ugly thing to see these baboons try to defend themselves.
March 14th, 2009 at 7:02 pmSince I’m not a cable tv subscriber, I’m not very familiar with Jim Cramer’s show. But I don’t understand why Matt seems to think that “ordinary people” should not purchase individual stocks if they want to.
March 14th, 2009 at 8:01 pmKarl is at that special level of evil where he won’t be Hitler’s next door neighbor in hell, but he will live in the room just down the hall.
March 14th, 2009 at 8:40 pmSee, we have terrorists right here in America walking among us FREE. Rove is 2nd after Bush #1 and Cheneny #2. And the crazya$$edrightwingnuts have nerve to complain about the detainees at GITMO being imprisoned in America. Shyte we’ve got terrorists roaming FREE right now!
March 14th, 2009 at 11:16 pmLies course through Rove’s veins. He’s a good indicator of the state of justice in this country.
March 15th, 2009 at 12:53 amDon’t forget that McCain has a black baby!
March 15th, 2009 at 4:18 am