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karl rove: what a guy.
what a perfect embodiment of conservative ideology--a kind of cynical fellow who is confused with a brilliant media strategist seemingly because the only thing his office sells with more vigor than the various idiocies of the bush administration is the illusion that karl rove is a brilliant media strategist (an administration can only go on so long and hey, a boy's got to live...)--a mediocre fellow not bothered by facts or history or coherent policy--the kind of guy who like military parades and great big flags and doesnt think that there is enough of either, really--the kind of guy whose politics benefit from war, need war, whose political position right now owes everything to a craven and at the least misleading marketing campaign centered on war. i am sure that pure rovethought was expressed in cheney's "vote kerry and you will die" stump speech.
rove is a guy in a position to move talking point by talking point through the main claims particular to the fantasyland that is conservative ideology--but the folk who support his politics, contrary to all reason, do not read his ridiculous speech and wonder to themselves "what the fuck am i doing?'--no, they rush to defend those talking points, they enjoy them... it does not matter what they are.
karl rove: the quintessential conservative. looking back to the good old days of red baiting and probably feeling more than a little sympathetic for those poor germans who felt after world war i that they too had been stabbed in the back by some fifth column...like them, "real americans"--cheap steak tough americans--folk like himself--- will one day not have to trifle with this pesky debate business, not be bothered with this democracy thing. instead, flags, loyalty, parades--if many many brown people far away have to die to generate more occasions for parades, more flag graphics on fox news, more reasons to produce unthinking partisan loyalty (read some of the posts above), then so be it--all that matters i guess is that america--the karl rove america--the one that has a profound and abiding problem with reality---the karl rove america marches forward.
facts be damned.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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