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GLOBALIST

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Feb 8, 2010, 3:55:09 PM2/8/10
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Did Karl Rove Leave His Wife For Jeff Gannon?
Jon Ponder


Happy Couple? Rove and Gannon
Only a controversial figure who also happens to be a master media
manipulator would have the savvy to bury news coverage of his divorce
by scheduling it to coincide with the Christmas week news brownout.

Last week Karl Rove, George W. Bush’s former brain, did just that. He
got divorced practically in secret:

No one reported on the divorce until it had already been granted,
which indicates the court file must have been sealed for some reason.
I’ve seen no indication that anyone in the press has even seen the
divorce complaint. It isn’t even clear who filed for divorce — Rove or
his wife, Darby?

But why would Rove be so desperate to deflect coverage of his
divorce?

Gawker suggests that with Darby out of the way, Rove “can finally gay
marry Jeff Gannon, in Argentina.”

Gannon was the fake reporter who was mysteriously given a pass to sit
in on White House press briefings and ask right-wing softball
questions for two years. He was eventually unmasked as a Republican
plant — which would have been filed away as business as usual for the
Bushies, except that this plant had a second career as a male
prostitute whose nom de ho was Bulldog.

Folks in the know point to this bit of history from 2005:

[When] Jeff Gannon, White House “reporter” for Talon “News,” was
unmasked last week, the leap to a possible Rove connection was
unavoidable. Gannon says that he met Rove only once, at a White House
Christmas party, and Gannon is kind of small potatoes for Rove at this
point in his career.

But Rove’s dominance of White House and Republican politics, Gannon’s
aggressively partisan work and the ease with which he got day passes
for the White House press room the past two years make it hard to
believe that he wasn’t at least implicitly sanctioned by the “boy
genius.” Rove, who rarely gave on-the-record interviews to the MSM
(mainstream media), had time to talk to GOPUSA, which owns Talon.

It happens that this is Rove’s second divorce. Plus, Rove’s father was
gay. And the timing is interesting. The Washington, D.C., has
legalized gay marriage, pending approval of the Democrats in Congress.

In right-wing circles, where rumors harden into facts at their first
exposure to air — where, to cite just one example, Pres. Obama is a
socialist-fascist Muslim who was born in Kenya and/or Indonesia —
there is enough here to qualify as a “solid rumor” that Rove is
secretly gay and has left his wife for a famous erstwhile male
escort.

It is also apt that Rove specialized in creating whispering campaigns,
the most famous being the rumor that spread like wildfire among racist
Republicans in South Carolina (redundant, sorry) just before the 2000
primary vote that John McCain, George Bush’s Republican opponent, was
the father of a black child.

Where there is smoke there is fire, or so they say, and with all these
stories floating around, Rove needs to step up and come clean about
his relationship with this former prostitute. He should avoid the
mistake of letting the story fester on the Internet as Glenn Beck has
done by refusing to discuss his role in the rape and murder of a young
girl in 1990.

hoser1605

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Feb 9, 2010, 9:34:05 AM2/9/10
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Ass hole.

freeisbest

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Feb 9, 2010, 11:45:39 AM2/9/10
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On Feb 8, 3:55 pm, GLOBALIST <free.tun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> exposure to air — -snip- there is enough here to qualify as

> a “solid rumor” that Rove is secretly gay and has left his wife
> for a famous erstwhile male escort.
>
> It is also apt that Rove specialized in creating whispering campaigns,
> the most famous being the rumor that spread like wildfire among racist
> Republicans in South Carolina (redundant, sorry) just before the 2000
> primary vote that John McCain, George Bush’s Republican opponent, was
> the father of a black child.
___________________________________________________________

Ah, but pandering to mean-spirited dullards is what he does in
his professional life.
Here's what Rove thinks about nasty rumors concerning his sacred
personal life:
12/29/09: "The 24-year marriage of Darby and Karl Rove ended in
divorce in 12/2009. According to Dana Perino 'The couple came to the
decision mutually and amicably, and they maintain a close relationship
and a strong friendship. There will be no further comment, and the
family requests that its privacy be respected.'”
Source: "Rove, wife, divorce after 24-year marriage."
MSNBC.msn.com. 12/29/09.

Rita

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Feb 9, 2010, 12:01:50 PM2/9/10
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Well, Rove probably richly deserves these rumors but Gawker is a
snarky web site that is amusing to read but that's all.

Republican divorces are always mutual and amicable of course ...
except when a spouse decides to go public like Mark Sanford's
wife has done.

It is hard to envision Karl Rove as having a raging libido for either
sex, frankly. He is not an attractive man.

Rumpelstiltskin

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Feb 9, 2010, 12:13:29 PM2/9/10
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On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:01:50 -0800, Rita <rtk...@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>


>It is hard to envision Karl Rove as having a raging libido for either
>sex, frankly. He is not an attractive man.


That doesn't affect the strength of desire, it just
affects the odds of getting satisfaction.

I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no girl reaction
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no

When I'm ridin' round the world
And I'm doin' this and I'm signing that
And I'm tryin' to make some girl
Who tells me baby better come back later next week
'Cause you see I'm on losing streak
I can't get no, oh no no no
Hey hey hey, that's what I say

I can't get no, I can't get no
I can't get no satisfaction
No satisfaction, no satisfaction, no satisfaction

-- Jagger/Richards


Rita

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Feb 9, 2010, 12:18:54 PM2/9/10
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Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh are both leading candidates for look
alikes for the Pillsbury Doughboy.

I expect there are some females or males somewhere willing to give
them a go...

freeisbest

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Feb 9, 2010, 12:25:34 PM2/9/10
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On Feb 9, 12:01 pm, Rita <rtkn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:45:39 -0800 (PST), freeisbest wrote:
-SNIP-_____________________________________________________

>
> >   Ah, but pandering to mean-spirited dullards is what he
> > does in his professional life.
> >     Here's what Rove thinks about nasty rumors concerning his sacred
> >personal life:
> >    12/29/09: ".....There will be no further comment, and the

> >family requests that its privacy be respected.'
> >     Source: "Rove, wife, divorce after 24-year marriage."
> >MSNBC.msn.com. 12/29/09.
>
> Well, Rove probably richly deserves these rumors but Gawker is a
> snarky web site that is amusing to read but that's all.  
>
> Republican divorces are always mutual and amicable of course ...
> except when a spouse decides to go public like Mark Sanford's
> wife has done.
>
> It is hard to envision Karl Rove as having a raging libido for
> either sex, frankly. He is not an attractive man.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:^) What - tubby, bald, and evil doesn't do it for you? Come to
think of it, we have had several friends thru the years (both in
college and later), who were all of those things but still not
physically repulsive. It's about dignity, ethics, strength of
character, and intelligence.
Rove appears to be what we teachers' college students daintily
called "self-contained."

The Post Quartermaster

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Feb 9, 2010, 12:33:17 PM2/9/10
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"freeisbest" <demeter...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I think his 20 million plus net worth would cover up for a lot of
faults.
--
Let's act like real true Americans
and do it the Constitutional way!

The Post Quartermaster

Rita

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Feb 9, 2010, 12:51:07 PM2/9/10
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You are 100% right about that. It is personality and character over
good looks -- neither of which Rove or Limbaugh exhibit.

I will never forget when a good friend of mine in college had a visit
from her boyfriend -- she was not a particularly attractive girl in
the mode of the times and the boyfriend was a hunk -- he entertained
us in the dorm living room playing the piano and was altogether
charming.

So we were flummoxed when not too long after she stopped talking
about him. We thought he had dumped her.

But finally she confided in me he was a pathological liar who would
say he had just rescued a nude woman from a rapist, or conducted a
rescue of a swimmer about to drown, etc. And much more of the same.

What leads a man gifted with good looks and reasonable intelligence
and some talents to invent exploits that place him in a hero role is
inexplicable.

I do think this experience was what led my friend to seek a Phd. in
psychology.

Evelyn

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Feb 9, 2010, 8:00:27 PM2/9/10
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"Rita" <rtk...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Come to mention it, every person I ever knew who went into psychology had
some person in their lives like that, be it a parent or a lover or whatever,
finding the pieces of the puzzle was a compelling reason.

--

Evelyn

"Even as a mother protects with her life her only child, So with a boundless
heart let one cherish all living beings." --Sutta Nipata 1.8

JackPineSavage

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Feb 9, 2010, 9:14:09 PM2/9/10
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"Rita" <rtk...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:45:39 -0800 (PST), freeisbest
> <demeter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On Feb 8, 3:55 pm, GLOBALIST <free.tun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Did Karl Rove Leave His Wife For Jeff Gannon?
>>> Jon Ponder
>>>
>>> Happy Couple? Rove and Gannon
>>> Only a controversial figure who also happens to be a master media
>>> manipulator would have the savvy to bury news coverage of his divorce
>>> by scheduling it to coincide with the Christmas week news brownout.
>>>
>>> Last week Karl Rove, George W. Bush's former brain, did just that. He
>>> got divorced practically in secret:
>>>
>>> No one reported on the divorce until it had already been granted,
>>> which indicates the court file must have been sealed for some reason.
>>> I've seen no indication that anyone in the press has even seen the
>>> divorce complaint. It isn't even clear who filed for divorce - Rove or

>>> his wife, Darby?
>>>
>>> But why would Rove be so desperate to deflect coverage of his
>>> divorce?
>>>
>>> Gawker suggests that with Darby out of the way, Rove "can finally gay
>>> marry Jeff Gannon, in Argentina."
>>>
>>> Gannon was the fake reporter who was mysteriously given a pass to sit
>>> in on White House press briefings and ask right-wing softball
>>> questions for two years. He was eventually unmasked as a Republican
>>> plant - which would have been filed away as business as usual for the

>>> Bushies, except that this plant had a second career as a male
>>> prostitute whose nom de ho was Bulldog.
>>>
>>> Folks in the know point to this bit of history from 2005:
>>>
>>> [When] Jeff Gannon, White House "reporter" for Talon "News," was
>>> unmasked last week, the leap to a possible Rove connection was
>>> unavoidable. Gannon says that he met Rove only once, at a White House
>>> Christmas party, and Gannon is kind of small potatoes for Rove at this
>>> point in his career.
>>>
>>> But Rove's dominance of White House and Republican politics, Gannon's
>>> aggressively partisan work and the ease with which he got day passes
>>> for the White House press room the past two years make it hard to
>>> believe that he wasn't at least implicitly sanctioned by the "boy
>>> genius." Rove, who rarely gave on-the-record interviews to the MSM
>>> (mainstream media), had time to talk to GOPUSA, which owns Talon.
>>>
>>> It happens that this is Rove's second divorce. Plus, Rove's father was
>>> gay. And the timing is interesting. The Washington, D.C., has
>>> legalized gay marriage, pending approval of the Democrats in Congress.
>>>
>> > In right-wing circles, where rumors harden into facts at their
>>first
>>> exposure to air - -snip- there is enough here to qualify as

>> > a "solid rumor" that Rove is secretly gay and has left his wife
>> > for a famous erstwhile male escort.
>>>
>>> It is also apt that Rove specialized in creating whispering campaigns,
>>> the most famous being the rumor that spread like wildfire among racist
>>> Republicans in South Carolina (redundant, sorry) just before the 2000
>>> primary vote that John McCain, George Bush's Republican opponent, was
>>> the father of a black child.
>>___________________________________________________________
>>
>> Ah, but pandering to mean-spirited dullards is what he does in
>>his professional life.
>> Here's what Rove thinks about nasty rumors concerning his sacred
>>personal life:
>> 12/29/09: "The 24-year marriage of Darby and Karl Rove ended in
>>divorce in 12/2009. According to Dana Perino 'The couple came to the
>>decision mutually and amicably, and they maintain a close relationship
>>and a strong friendship. There will be no further comment, and the
>>family requests that its privacy be respected.'"
>> Source: "Rove, wife, divorce after 24-year marriage."
>>MSNBC.msn.com. 12/29/09.
>
> Well, Rove probably richly deserves these rumors but Gawker is a
> snarky web site that is amusing to read but that's all.
>
> Republican divorces are always mutual and amicable of course ...
> except when a spouse decides to go public like Mark Sanford's
> wife has done.

You must've missed last night's Daily Show, eh?

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