Rove sides with Cheney, says he would pick Limbaugh over Powell.
Rove sides with Cheney, says he would pick Limbaugh over Powell.
Earlier this month, Dick Cheney made headlines after telling CBS that he would rather have Rush Limbaugh in the GOP than Colin Powell. “Well, if I had to choose — in terms of being a Republican — I’d go with Rush Limbaugh, I think,” he said. Today on Fox News Sunday, Karl Rove said he agrees with Cheney:
Q: Dick Cheney said if it’s a battle between, or a choice between Rush Limbaugh and Colin Powell, he sides with Limbaugh. You?
ROVE: Uh, yes, if I had to pick between the two. But you know what? Neither one of those are candidates. Neither one of those are going to be people who are offering themselves for office. This is a false debate that Washington loves.
Watch it:
Former Bush Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge took a shot at Limbaugh today, telling CNN that Limbaugh can be “shrill” and uses language in a way “that offends very many.” “[W]ords mean things and how you use words is very important,” Ridge said. “But personally, if he would listen to me and I doubt if he would, the notion is express yourself but let’s respect others opinions and let’s not be divisive.”
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Memorial Day Tally of Bush/Cheney “crimes” (The Human Cost):
WTC Deaths on 9/11 – aka “their watch” – 2,819
Iraq Deaths - 3,441
**Iraq Wounded:
**6,260 Legitimate Cases of Crimes Against the People for Bush Cabal. If it were just one, it would still be criminal enough to prosecute these thugs.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:10 amThe only thing rove should be picking is the top or bottom prison bunk, but the dems have given him a “get out of jail free” card, grandstanding by issuing subpoenas that they refuse to enforce.
The contempt kkkarl has shown would land any of us in jail, but rove gets rewarded by being a leader in GOP.
And it is directly a result of the complicity of dems.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:11 amSorry – Iraq Wounded = 31,285
Now tell us about how you kept us safe, Dickie!
May 24th, 2009 at 10:11 amRoveReich should be sitting in jail right now as the “evil mastermind” of all of this.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:11 amOkay shall we settle on Shock Jock? The bottomline is we are talking about a sideshow barker and not some deep political mind…
May 24th, 2009 at 10:11 amNo surprise there. I hope Powell tells it like it is. I see a pattern here with the formerly known as GOP.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:12 amI can’t wait to watch Powell totally eviscerate these criminals when he appears today.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:12 amblistex11, of course 9/11 was “on their watch”.
IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB
May 24th, 2009 at 10:12 amConservativeForProgress Says:
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Tom Ridge was critical of Rush, but didn’t call him a “hate radio host.”
But you know he is a hate mongering radio host. What else would you expect from a flunked out, drug addled, gas bag?
May 24th, 2009 at 10:14 amhttp://www.truthout.org/052209R
This report needs to be headline news next week.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:20 amI know this is probably a given but does anyone give a rats a** what Limbaugh or Rove have to say about anything except a few deadenders Throw Glen Beck an Sean the walrus into that mix as well
May 24th, 2009 at 10:24 amRove didn’t really present himself that poorly in this soundbite. He didn’t make the expected attacks and he didn’t have the expected fervor.
It makes sense that an extreme conservative, like Rove, would prefer another extreme conservative’s views, like Limbaugh’s, to a moderate’s views, like Powell’s.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:27 amAll these GOP talkers are doing is taking away any possibility that some sane leadership might emerge in their party. Rove, Gingich, Cheney, and Limbaugh have no chance of becoming real leaders and they divert attention from those GOPers who might show some sensible GOP leadership. Oh my, did I just write “sensible GOP leadership”? Boy you don’t see those words together anymore.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:28 amAJ: A growing consensus of americans now believe that, to some extent, 9/11 was an inside job.
I contend that unless/until we get to the bottom and truth of 9/11, we cannot move forward.
As well, if we fail to prosecute the Bush Criminal Cabal now, it will forever be a taint on this country. Spain knows what occurred and they have the cojones to do something about it – unlike our compromised, blackmailed Congress.
As for Pelosi, when she dropped the ball regarding impeachment back in ‘04, she lost my respect. Of course, we now know that they were all blackmailed by illegal NSA wiretapping – skeleton party, anyone?
Having said that, I still fail to see why Pelosi should take the fall for the entire Intel Committee at this point. For openers, the briefings they receive are totally “classified” which means that they can’t breathe a word of any of it to anyone (how convenient for criminals to use, wh?).
Besides, where are the Republican members of the Senate Intel Committee right now? Why are they not speaking out?
Catch-22 is the answer for that and we need to root these frauds out of office ASAP.
Believe me….Pelosi is definitely not my favorite individual due to her dismissal of Bush’s crimes and her statement that impeachment was off the table when it should have been “front and center”. This makes her more complicit in my eyes than any intel briefing about EIT’s.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:32 amOf course, Rove prefers Limpballs over Powell.
Everyone knows “the bigger the cushion, the better the pushin’”.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:37 amOnce the Bush Crime Family begins facing charges for their crimes, the trollz will fall off of this board.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:37 amThe only words I want tot hear from KKKarl is, “Guilty as charged.”
Otherwise, STFU a$$hole. You criminal bastard!!! You too Dick(head Cheney!!!
May 24th, 2009 at 10:37 amMy one post is directed to the resident troll regarding “inside job” on 9/11..A huge reminder of event’s….cheney in charge of Norad on 9/11…Not just unusual, planned….P.B. & J.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:43 amand i would pick having rectal cancer over spending time with cheney, rove, or drug addled tub-o-lard limpballs, and 78% of americans would agree with me.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:46 amI see that TP has corrected the post. Thank you. It would be better, however, if a notation were made when a post has been corrected so that readers’ comments don’t appear out of context.
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May 24th, 2009 at 10:49 amWho cares? Why not start your own site then you can police it all by yourself? Are you obsessing much about this place?
ConservativeForProgress Says:
As far as Conserative radio goes, I prefer Dennis Miller if I can catch him when he is on. He is brilliant and funny.
Miller? Brilliant and funny? Further evidence that “conservatives” don’t get humor.
However, I tend to listen more to what little liberal talk radio has survived the marketplace. I find it more useful to listen to those with whom I disagree most of the time. Having Sirius in the car is useful in that regard as there isn’t much liberal radio on the AM/FM dial other than most of “public radio.”
Odd, there’s plenty on the AM dial where I live. Public radio only looks “liberal” to you because they deal in reality, and reality has a well-known liberal bias.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:50 amdbadass Says: Who cares? Why not start your own site then you can police it all by yourself? Are you obsessing much about this place?
Obsessing enough to keep coming back under new names, repeatedly.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:53 amjust watched (not too closely, i admit) powell talking about this on Face the Nation…
May 24th, 2009 at 10:55 amSo?
May 24th, 2009 at 11:03 ammaybe the thread copy has been changed since, but the only place i read “hate radio host” is at #1 and the replies to it…
nothing misleading about TP’s post here…
May 24th, 2009 at 11:09 amah – now i see #17… it has been changed…
May 24th, 2009 at 11:12 amwhat i watched with my morning coffee… and this guy looks good:
Healing The Most Deeply Scarred
Operation Mend Offers State-Of-The-Art Surgery To Help Disfigured Service Members Regain Normality
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/sunday/main3445.shtml
May 24th, 2009 at 11:26 amhhhmmmm,
let’s see:
five deferment dick
anal cyst limpballs
never served pansy karlina rove.
what do these three have in common? that’s right, they’re all cowards.
May 24th, 2009 at 11:37 amlike they say…birds of a feather
Powell: In GOP, says party must be more inclusive
May 24th, 2009 at 11:41 amThe Associated Press – ?45 minutes ago?
WASHINGTON (AP) – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says he’s still a Republican, but the party needs to change and be more inclusive.
Powell: Cheney’s “Misinformed” CBS News
Rove Sides With Limbaugh Over Powell, Ridge Calls Limbaugh “Shrill … Huffington Post
Washington Post – The Hill – The TV Guy – Daily Kos
all 203 news articles »
http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ncl=dVD_-MuudxlqHSM0VrjlbZi7TBpHM&topic=h
Everyone knows “the bigger the cushion, the better the pushin’”.
Tom, thanks for the laugh. :D
May 24th, 2009 at 11:42 amI suppose it would, but in this case, no harm done.
No one takes any of your posts seriously to begin with, and you’re usually babbling incoherently anyway. So I doubt if anyone would have blinked an eye, C4P.
May 24th, 2009 at 11:52 amReally CFP, if your first post was the dumbest you ever sounded we’d all be grateful. This site isn’t here for your pleasure. If you don’t like it feel free to leave. We’re tired of hearing Republican b#tching 24/7.
May 24th, 2009 at 11:54 amgum, all it takes for a winger to be considered “brilliant” by the wingnuts is for him to use references that the wingnuts don’t get.
May 24th, 2009 at 11:55 amha! i just found this at C&L:
“the R(ush) N(ewt) C(heney) Party”
excellent!
May 24th, 2009 at 11:55 amKaty, Keith Olbermann used that RNC line the other night–Thursday or Friday. Quite appropriate, isn’t it? ;)
May 24th, 2009 at 12:01 pmThe GOP is totally bankrupt. Their party should reform. They should start by kicking out the mentally ill like Rove,the drug addicts like Rush and the self important like Cheney.
May 24th, 2009 at 12:06 pmShameless crap they spew, day in and day out. They are not Americans, they are barely human.
The Republican Party has gone from supporting a C college student (Bush) to a “barely passing” college student (McCain) to a college dropout (Limbaugh).
What is disconcerting in all this is that Rove, a master at Machiavellian politics, believes this to be a winning strategy.
May 24th, 2009 at 12:23 pmWho frackin’ cares?
May 24th, 2009 at 12:33 pmCheney and Rove are some of the biggest criminals ever to have a seat in our government. I believe they are Nazis and were bent on tearing down our Constitution. Bush on the other hand was just stupid, a dupe who could get elected by the Republicans more out of sympathy for his being so damned stupid than because he could accomplish anything. Rove is a corrupter who is famous for his dirty ability to steal elections through deceit. Cheney is just an evil man who wants to now blame Obama for all of the evil he has created. I wonder if they are worried about a truth commission actually getting to the truth…
May 24th, 2009 at 12:45 pmAfter just watching Powell on FTN, as much as I despise what he did at the UN in the run-up to the Iraq war, he sounds like the voice of reason in an increasingly looney Rethuglican party. To think that Cheney, Rove or Limpballs could EVER trump Powell as a true Republican is just nuts. Everything Powell said, including that fact that more inclusiveness is needed in the party and that torture is wrong and destructive, no matter what the circumstances, is the truth. The other Republicans who are appearing on talk shows are sounding more and more insane. Powell sounds lucid, logical, and compassionate (a quality that obviously went out of fashion in the Republican party back in the 60s. If they continue down this road, the GOP will be wandering in the wilderness for years and years to come.
May 24th, 2009 at 12:47 pmRE: rick8107—–What he said.
May 24th, 2009 at 12:48 pm“[W]ords mean things and how you use words is very important,” Ridge said. “But personally, if he would listen to me and I doubt if he would, the notion is express yourself but let’s respect others opinions and let’s not be divisive.”
Mr. Ridge, I will be more than happy to respect the well-informed opinions of others, and I will respect the fact that they have a right to their opinion. But I will not respect anyone’s misinformed opinions. And I see a great many of those from the trolls here at TP.
May 24th, 2009 at 1:06 pmBriseadh na Firefly Says:
The Republican Party has gone from supporting a C college student (Bush) to a “barely passing” college student (McCain) to a college dropout (Limbaugh).
What is disconcerting in all this is that Rove, a master at Machiavellian politics, believes this to be a winning strategy.
Well, BnF, they have often said that they would like to see the Dept of Education abolished (often making the ridiculous claim that it is unconstitutional, which it is not.) Perhaps this desire to see the Dept of Ed abolished is related to their tendency to blame the people who point out their wrongdoing, rather than blame the wrongdoer. They are like the criminal who says, “I wouldn’t be in prison if you hadn’t told the cops I killed that guy.” They simply don’t know how to take responsibility for their actions. Maybe that’s why they hate the Dept of Ed, because it shows objectively that they are not as smart as they would like people to believe. And rather than try to educate themselves more, they point fingers at the people who reveal the truth.
May 24th, 2009 at 1:15 pm“…if he would listen to me and I doubt if he would, the notion is express yourself but let’s respect others opinions and let’s not be divisive.”
Being divisive is the only way Rush knows how to be.
Rove wrote the playbook on being divisive. It has gotten old.
May 24th, 2009 at 1:16 pmSo the crook KKKarl goes for the crook Cheeney? What a surprise. They are both about two steps from prison.
May 24th, 2009 at 1:16 pmMr. Ridge? “There’s a Mr. Limbaugh on the phone for you–he says it’s urgent.”
May 24th, 2009 at 1:17 pmI like the quip, but let’s face it; Rush doesn’t do things that way.
He’s not the type to call and threaten someone personally. His style is just to talk shit about them on his radio show, from the safety of his studio.
Rush is not a real confrontational kind of guy. He learned that it generally doesn’t work out for him.
May 24th, 2009 at 1:27 pmshould we take this as a surprise – that rove is a mere extension of the dinosaur himself, cheney. often times i wonder whether one is not the others son, perhaps rove was mistakenly exchanged at birth or at any rate some like scenario. for scarcely could one encounter two people with such a striking common outlook on policy and methods.
thus off course rove sides with cheney in choosing limbaugh over powell and heres why. on one hand you have three men who have never understood the true and sacred calling of duty, honor, country. cheney and limbaugh went to great length to avoid serving their country during vietnam. while others were being tortured, killed, maimed, wounded – they instead enjoyed their summers on the beach. here they can be excused in their disgust over powell’s real superiority – jeleousy is to blame.
afterall, imagine how you would feel if at every turn you were being compared to an american war heroe – national security advisor, army general, chairman of the joint chiefs, secretary of state – beloved by the world and both parties alike. now compare that with rush limbaugh – what a pitty, no wonder he hates powell – the constrast must be painfully condemning to him.
lastly, i would venture to suggest that anyone with the blessing of these three characters stands condemned in the court of human relations. think on it – they (republicans and by extention rove, limbaugh, cheney) condone torture, coupes-de-tats, anti-environment, anti-science, pro business at all costs, torture the rule of law, hate dissenters and opposing views, maintain a cultish following, lack any openness.
surely they hate powell with his love of country and not interest groups or this-that base.
May 24th, 2009 at 1:31 pmGee. KKKarl worships at the altar of the FatBastard?
*What* a surprise.
I shudder to think what life in this world would be if Cheney, Rove and Limbaugh ran the place! Everlasting war, grinding poverty (except for the elites), slavery, misery, fanatic Christianity, concentration camps full of gays, liberals, intellectuals, scientists… etc. etc.
Yikes.
May 24th, 2009 at 1:47 pmGood Karl and I’m sure Rush will love to post bail for you when you finally get arrested :)
May 24th, 2009 at 2:06 pmFilled Your Taco
May 24th, 2009 at 2:17 pmYou would think these warmonger chickenhawks would be kneeling at the feet of Powell after the anthrax in a baggie speech he made.
May 24th, 2009 at 2:20 pmJesse Ventura on Larry King the other night, discussing Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh and General Colin Powell.
May 24th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Why are these fu(kers still even allowed to talk? Why aren’t they wearing muzzles?
May 24th, 2009 at 5:51 pmRove, Cheney, Limbaugh. Probably the most evil, dishonest, hateful, bigoted, never-served-in-the-military bunch of scum ever put in the U.S. They can’t even serve their country. Why does anyone care what they say? They have never supported the troops (never served) yet love to send others off to fight & die. Pathetic, unpatriotic blowhards who constantly criticize others who actually make a positive difference. They are– well, hateful losers.
May 24th, 2009 at 6:12 pmGood point, BnF, but you forgot to mention that KKKarl is also a college dropout. Also, wouldn’t it be more accurate to call Rush a college flunkout?
Briseadh na Firefly Says:
May 24th, 2009 at 6:15 pmThe Republican Party has gone from supporting a C college student (Bush) to a “barely passing” college student (McCain) to a college dropout (Limbaugh).
Is this supposed to be surprising news? Rove would probably choose Imelda Marcos over Mother Teresa.
May 24th, 2009 at 6:17 pmLogically, you would think Rove would be observing the left wing blogs and newspapers, for perspective.
Surely by now he would have seen how elated the dems are, now that Rush and Dick are the purported leaders of the GOP.
Hey Karl, ah, doesn’t that tell you something ?
May 24th, 2009 at 6:44 pm…and here’s another “Lying Karl Rove Report.”
Rove shouldn’t you be out stalking a certain Twitter? Next Rove will be saying, “sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare and I would rather have Rush protect me than Powell?” Qualem blennum Rove is.
Does Rove lying sack of shit comments really mean anything at all, really?
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The translation:
“sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare”- I think some people in togas are plotting against me.
“qualem blennum” – what a doofus!
May 24th, 2009 at 7:35 pmThere’s no surprise here.
The GOP has become a party of extremists. So, anyone who isn’t off the chart, bat-shit insane in support of GOP ideals (a GOP dictatorship) is considered to be unworthy of service (as in servitude) to the GOP.
May 25th, 2009 at 8:03 amFalse debate, is it. Bet rat butt Rover wouldn’t call the debate about what and when Pelosi knew about torture a false debate. These fat old white men like Rove, Cheney, Limbaugh and Gingrich are so full of themselves and full of poopy. Every time they open their mouth, they emit foul smells.
May 25th, 2009 at 8:13 amROVE I DONT HTINK ANYONE CARE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT ANYTHING,YOU ARE A LIAR FOR THE BUSH DAYS AND YOU CANT HELP WHAT YOU SAY ,YOU ARE A SICK IN THE HEAD GUY GET SOME HELP NAD THEN TALK ,I AM D=SURE IT WILL BBE DIRRERENT.JUST AS I READ IN HUFFINGTON IF ROVE CHENEY OR GINRICH SAY SOMETHING THAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT GINGRICH WAS A CHEATER WEWITH HIS WIFES ,GOT FINED FOR LYING OT CONGREE IN 1998 $300000 NAD NOW WE SHOULD LISTEN TO GINRICH NO WAY HE IS JERK AND CHEANEY AMDE HIS BEE NOW SLEEP IBN IT ALL CREEPS OF THE GOP AND NONE HAVE BEEN INVITED TO ANY MAJOR GOP FUNCTIOS THAT THAT TELL US MRE TELLS US ALLLL WE KNOW TO NEED 3 STOOGES AHHAH
May 25th, 2009 at 9:08 amRemember the saying: Birds of a feather flock together.
To start, Limbaugh and Rove. I guess we should add Gingrich. Now let’s start counting. Seems to already be a large bunch.
Did you read what Krugman said? Republicans have gone mad from lack of power.
Surely hope those crazed birdies don’t fly over my house.
May 25th, 2009 at 9:44 amnofltwlt Says:
There’s no surprise here.
The GOP has become a party of extremists. So, anyone who isn’t off the chart, bat-shit insane in support of GOP ideals (a GOP dictatorship) is considered to be unworthy of service (as in servitude) to the GOP.
And the corporate media has become their mouthpiece to “catapult the propaganda”, if you will.
Rightwingsnuts on my tv 24/7, spewing their lies, misdirection and spin.
May 25th, 2009 at 9:56 amQ: Dick Cheney said if it’s a battle between, or a choice between Rush Limbaugh and Colin Powell, he sides with Limbaugh. You?
ROVE: Uh, yes, if I had to pick between the two.
Rush Limbaugh, the choice of unindicted co-conspirators everywhere.
May 25th, 2009 at 10:21 amConservativeForProgress Says:
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blistex11 Says:
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A growing consensus of americans now believe that, to some extent, 9/11 was an inside job.
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B.S. There is nothing close to a “consensus” with these wacky conspiracy theories
Really? Not an inside job????
Try these facts ….How many of you knew GWB youngest brother was on the board of the security company that looked after the WTC??? How many of you know that the bomb sniffing dogs that protected the WTC were told they were no longer needed two weeks before 9/11??
How many of you know of a BUILDING BLACKOUT two weeks before 9/11?? Why wont the secutity company release what was done to the building during the black out????
How many of you know that MESSOD agents were caught cheering and filming the collapse of the WTC??? Once opprended, the FBI came into the investigation and released these men.
Please explain to me how a building falls 5 hours after it was damaged when only a part of the building that made up LESS then 1% of the buildings total space was damaged????
Why did the building collapse like a controlled demolition???? All three building???
THOSE OF YOU TO BLIND TO ASK QUESTIONS OR IGNORANT OF BASIC LAWS OF GRAVITY (IE…A CUE BALL DROPPED FROM 110 FLOORS TAKES 10.2 SECONDS TO REACH GROUND….HOW DID THE WTC FALL IN THE SAME TIME IT TOOK A CUE BALL (WITH NO RESISTANCE)TO FALL??? THAT MEANS THERE MUST NOT HAVE BEEN RESISTANCE AT THE WTC…CORRECT???? IF THAT IS CORRECT, WHAT REMOVED THE RESISTANCE OF 90FLOORS????? DO YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN??? IF NOT, GO BACK TO SCHOOL!!!
THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT…..AND IT WILL BE UGLY!!!
May 25th, 2009 at 10:39 amI am surprised daily. The Republicans keep letting the idiots out of their village and they try to speak sensibly. They are failing miserably
May 25th, 2009 at 5:42 pmI,m convinced, Rover is Limp Ball’s pet, he will do anything for BagginBaggin that tastes like Oxycontin and smelling 12 year old Puerto Rican girls everytime they bend over for him and Rash.
May 25th, 2009 at 11:15 pmBy “false debate”, Karl,don’t you mean to say “mindless political entertainment posing as substantive policy dicussion”. Actually, that pretty much sums up Limbaugh’s show.
May 26th, 2009 at 2:10 am