Miscellaneous

Karl Rove, Ethical Novelist!

As the excellent TV critic from New Jersey put it in his column earlier this week: "Karl Rove will not testify under oath before Congress, but he did submit to questions from TV critics." That about sums up this fuck of an administration, no?

Rove was in LA as part of the Television Critics Association Press tour, now that he's part of the "we're not biased, you're biased" Fox News crew. Sepinwall's article breaks down the Fox News session with Rove and, unsurprisingly, there wasn't much to it. But there was this:

Finally,someone brought up former FEMA head Mike Brown and wondered whether, in retrospect, Rove thought it was a mistake to put the former head of a horse association in charge of America's emergency response.

"Well, I think he was a little bit more qualified than that, but on that one," he said with a wink, "you'll have to wait for my book, unfortunately," and proceeded to discuss the 2009 release date and price of said book.

And now it all comes together and falls into place. This administration hasn't been fucking up because they're idiots -- they've fucking up for the sake of fucking up, to make good book fodder. Smart mother fuckers.

Here's another highlight:

It wasn't what you would call a lovefest. At one point, after a critic wondered if Rove would be on the honor system in terms of providing assistance to the McCain campaign, Moody said, "I don't think Karl would cross an ethical line like that," and there was audible laughter throughout the room.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on July 16, 2008 (boomark / email).