onetime2 - yeah, I'm sure Bush was devastated when he couldn't deliver his momentous speech on TV despite having told all the major cable news networks to cover it. I imagine his conversation went something like this:
Bush: "Damn it! Why did this something happen at the last minute causing the timing (or the whole announcement) to be delayed (or fall apart)?"
Rove: "I know. I totally wanted this major policy shift on the most important topic facing the nation to come out today."
Bush: "Especially since we have less than a month until the election. Say, how about instead of telling the networks that my speech will be my stump speech verbatim, we continue allowing them to THINK that something important is about to happen, so they wind up giving me free, well-advertised air time to broadcast my reelection message to the country?"
Rove: "Hmm, why, that's so crazy it just might work!"
Bush: "Yes Karl, it is. And the best part, old chum, is how Kerry won't get this opportunity. God bless this something that happened at the last minute causing the timing (or the whole announcement) to be delayed (or fall apart)!"
onetime2 - I'll bet this is EXACTLY how it went down.
Edited for grammar.
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