One Dirty Trick Too Many?

[Robbien]

Commentary by Donald A. Collins
August 20, 2004

From the 2001 book “Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential,” anyone who could read was privy to the way Karl Rove’s brain works, amorally and analytically to only one end: Win an election by any tactic necessary regardless of how it might affect the citizenry .



The bubbling along story about Kerry’s war record finally popped to the top of the media pile on August 20th when, in a carefully researched story entitled “Friendly Fire: The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad”, located on the top left side of page one of the NY Times, Rove is finally and definitively caught with his fingerprints all over this vicious, and frankly stupid, attempt to discredit the military record of a combat veteran, at the same time his candidate is refusing to disclose his record.

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While Rove of course admits knowing some of these ad advocates, in typical fashion he claims that he had not spoken to one of them who put up much of the money “in over a year”“.



Hopefully, all Americans will read this account as it is central to understanding how this Administration plays politics.



This is not just another dirty trick, this is lying at its worst and manipulation of facts at its best. Fortunately, we have a top quality news gathering team that exposed it. This should lead to an understanding by most Americans of how earlier dirty tricks are part of a pattern of behavior used to discredit other opponents and to an understanding of the enormous influence such covert activities can have on our country and its future leadership. Could be Mr. Rove has been involved in one dirty trick too many.

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_9865.shtml

[Demeter]

1. Time Will Tell

if truth will out. This is only the prologue.