So Karl Rove got caught with his tongue firmly up his ass cheek by one of his own media outlets and now he’s been forced to jog back some comments:
Last week, Karl Rove questioned her capacity for the White House and reportedly said she had brain damage.
The New York Post reported on Tuesday that Mr Rove, the strategist behind George W Bush's election to the White House, had told an audience in Los Angeles last week, "Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she's wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what's up with that."
In fact, Mrs Clinton was in hospital for three days after falling ill with a stomach bug in December 2012. After becoming severely dehydrated, Mrs Clinton fell at home and struck her head, suffering a concussion. While she was in hospital doctors diagnosed a blood clot.
Needless to say, when this became public, Rove was forced to eat his words.
"I didn't say she had brain damage. I said she had a serious health episode," he said on Fox News.
It’s incumbent of me to point out that FOX News and the NY Post are both owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., so essentially, Rove is denying that Murdoch’s people can tell the truth.
And the delicious irony is that he used Murdoch’s outlets as his own personal PR machine for decades. The cherry on top? He worked for a man in George W Bush with enough emotional and mental instabilities to likely choke a horse. An unrecovering alcoholic, possible cocaine addict with delusions of godhood and perfection, yet Rove couldn’t quite bring his armchair medical insight to a real problem of a real person with the very real ability to screw us all up, but good. Which Bush managed to do.
Somehow, Rove missed all that.
He seems nice.
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