Karl Rove as Jean Valjean: An Upside-Down Look at the Plame Affair | Declassified Blog - Newsweek.com

Newsweek's Michael Isikoff dissects attempts by Bush43's political Svengali to paint himself in his new book "Courage and Consequence" as a victim in the leaking of classified information:

Posted Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:10 PM
Karl Rove as Jean Valjean: An Upside-Down Look at the Plame Affair 

"In his fat and highly skewed new memoir out today, Karl Rove portrays himself as an improbable Jean Valjean—an innocent man who, like the persecuted hero of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, is relentlessly hounded by an obsessed lawman determined to put him behind bars. ...

"Rove offers this arresting recount of him weeping in the White House to show the personal toll that special-prosecutor investigations can take on public officials. But its credibility ultimately rests on readers' willingness to accept Rove's highly selective (and at times blatantly distorted) version of the events that got him into trouble in the first place. ...

"In the vast scheme of things, Rove's distortions of the Plame episode are not likely to be remembered as his most grievous sins at the White House—or the biggest whoppers in his book. The whole Plame affair came about because White House aides such as he and Libby (who was indicted and convicted by Fitzgerald) were determined to discredit Wilson for alleging that the administration had misstated the evidence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Rove says this is a false charge—and insists that the White House had ample reason to support President Bush's original claim in his State of the Union address that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa. (This despite the fact that CIA Director George Tenet had explicitly warned the White House two months before the speech that evidence for the claim was "weak" and "overblown.") 

"Rove valiantly defends virtually everything the White House said about Iraqi WMD—almost all of which turned out to be false. Amazingly, he writes on page 340, during the run-up to the Iraq war, "I could see the care everyone was taking not to overstate the case or exaggerate the danger" from Iraq.

At least Jean Valjean never denied stealing that loaf of bread." 

via blog.newsweek.com

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For professionals in the field of political science, meeting people who believe that Karl Rove is a political genius is perhaps one of the easiest ways to recognize how the media breeds ignorance in America. The latest book published by Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight, is the latest literary piece of fiction that further lowers the national IQ level of most Americans and is another attempt by an uneducated individual to rewrite history and influence public opinion. Just as any sane person wouldn’t go to a doctor who hadn’t finished medical school or trust someone with their life savings who didn’t have a financial degree, the people listening to and relying on their information from people like Glenn Beck or thinking that Karl Rove is a political genius, is perhaps one of the most obvious reasons as to why America is a great power in decline.

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