Rove is EMPHATIC: "the idea that Bush is not an intellectual is incorrect"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7551282/

Rove countered the general notion among conservatives that mainstream media outlets skew liberal. He said the media is “less liberal than it is oppositional” and admitted to being a listener of National Public Radio.

Of his boss, Rove said the idea that Bush is not an intellectual is incorrect, citing his Ivy League education and saying “there’s always a book on his night stand.”



“He’s one of the most intelligent, curious, intellectually tough people I know, yet the country misunderestimates him continually,” Rove said, playing on one of Bush’s more memorable verbal gaffes.

[Nevernose]

1. Hey, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" is a classic

And far more complicated a text than what MOST Americans read.

[question everything]

2. Will Rove know an intellectual if one stares him in the face?

[dflprincess]

3. A book laying on a nightstand

is not necessarily a book that will be read.

[Lisa]

29. I bet he uses it as a coaster!

It's only when your nightstand falls over due to the amount of reading material placed on it that you're a contender ...

[rocktivity]

4. If Bush really is an intellectual, Karl

What does he need with YOU???

:shrug:
rocknation

ON EDIT: Holy crap--did Rove REALLY say "misunderestimates"????

[MsConduct]

25. LOL Excellent question! n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. ROFLMAO! The idea that KKKarl is not a lying pile of steaming dog poo

is incorrect. KKKarl, get a clue: Your boss and butt-buddy is as dumb as a box of hammers, and the book on his nightstand is either "Goodnight Moon" or a photo album of Gannon/Guckert porn.

[Fenris]

6. "There's always a book on his night stand."

And that book is a self-help title: "GEORGE, DON'T FUCKING SAY/DO THE FOLLOWING THINGS IN PUBLIC." Author: Karl Rove.

[Robeson]

7. Rove has absolutely nothing to say, that I want to hear.

[Wapsie B]

8. My Pet Goat!

Bet that's his favorite book.

[Cha]

9. rove is like an oily greasy used

car salesman. Always pushing the Lemon on the unsuspecting customer.

[Nevernose]

12. I read "oily greasy used" and I thought "santorum"

You know, the frothy mixture of lubricant and...

[peekaloo]

10. How many times has Karl rolled over and asked 'Whatcha readin'?"

[benddem]

11. the man is delusional

Bush was a below average ivy league student...who was probably only passed cause of his Grandfather. Did you hear his explanation of why we need to fix social security.
He may have a book on his bedstand but that doesn't mean he reads it.

[tuvor]

13. I am karl rove.

I forgot to preface this with, "You are getting sleepy..."

[NVMojo]

14. the fact that he feels the need to defend the moran tells it all ...

[liwkenne]

15. Sorry, Karl

Attending an Ivy League school via Legacy Affirmative Action does not make Bush an intellectual.

Having "a book on his night stand" does not make Bush an intellectual.

An intellectual is someone who has the ability to assimilate knowledge, think critically and abstractly, and communicate effectively.

By any objective measure, Bush is an idiot.

[entanglement]

16. Bush is an intellectual

and I live near the North Pole, ride a reindeer to work and have Elves for helpers. :evilgrin:

[Aristus]

17. Bush IS an intellectual!

And this just in: Smoking is GOOD for you!

[elperromagico]

18. So the Ivy League education he got because of his connections

makes him an intellectual? The University of Texas Law School rejected his application for admission in 1970 - why? After all, he's an intellectual. The fact that his pappy and grandpappy didn't go there wouldn't have affected the decision, would it?

As for the book on his nightstand, I'll paraphrase a line from A Fish Called Wanda: "Apes read Nietzsche; they just don't understand it."

[Writer]

19. No, Karl. Bush was ONCE intelligent...

... until the drugs. Karl, please, stop projecting your homoerotic fantasies on the rest of us. I know you'd prefer him to be your Adonnis, your Einstein, and your George Washington, but the man is none of that.

Hardly.

Writer.

[MsConduct]

20. If 'the dub' is an intellectual, that means any dumb a$$ could be

the President...oh...uh...wait...any dumb a$$ is! Never mind.
;-)

[d_b]

21. Someone needs to give that prick a copy of The Lorax.

I'm sure he can read that with his Ivy League creds.

[uhhuh]

22. People say the silliest things

when they're in love. Cut KKKarl some slack on this one, wouldya?

[Zuni]

23. The only 'book' on Bush's nightstand in "Penthouse Letters"

That and a sheaf of phonetically primed talking points prepared by KKKarl himself.

Karl Rove, btw, looks like a fat, alcoholic worm of some sort. :puke:

[Spider Jerusalem]

24. An Ivy League education does not an intellectual make.

Especially not when the only reason you received an Ivy League education in the first place was thanks to money and family connections.

Nor does "a book always on his nightstand" make him an intellectual; Tom Clancy isn't exactly Michel Foucault, after all. I'd wager that whatever he reads, IF he reads, is probably the sort of relatively simple-minded mass-market garbage that makes the bestseller lists.

Rove makes an argument that will only sound convincing to an idiot; unfortunately, there are a tremendous number of those in this country.

[two gun sid]

26. The idea that Bush is an intellectual is ludicrous.

Fuck Rove and his bullshit.

[Melynn]

27. I believe Rove...........NOT!!!!!!!!

I wonder why Rove is putting out this nonsense now.

[Arkana]

28. Uh, Karl, get with the program.

Dubya's DADDY got him into Yale. Because of MONEY. And a book on a nightstand does not an intellectual make.