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...6, 2012, 6:38 pm By DAVID FIRESTONE The delicate Karl Rove said today he was “frankly, offended” during the Super Bowl halftime on Sunday. No, he didn’t mean his sensibilities were jolted by M.I.A.’s upraised middle finger ; he was referring to the Chrysler...
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The New York Times
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...or abuse, click the "X" in the upper right corner of the comment box. To find out more, read the FAQ and Conversation Guidelines. BAD headline writing AGAIN. "Obama campaign using Karl Rove quote to raise money" would have been accurate and more useful....
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USA Today
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...Republicans did irreparable harm to their candidates and their brand. In 2012, we will be the countervailing force to Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and Mitt Romney’s billionaire friends who would love nothing more than to drive a right wing agenda that benefits...
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Hollywood Reporter
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...international requirements and with US law.” Watch it: ... Karl Rove "proud" U.S. tortured detainees The Reaction — ... Karl Rove says he is "proud we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists... Yes, I'm proud that we kept the world safer...
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/rove-proud-of-us-waterboarding-terror-suspects/
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...Rove-elations: Former Bush Adviser Opens Up About Katrina, WMDs, Obama foxnews.com 3 days ago — President Obama thinks Karl Rove "hates" him; President Bush should have declared a "federal takeover" in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina; and the Iraq war...
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/going-rove-courage-and-consequence-is-full-of/
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...and says many of the controversies that weakened his presidency were falsehoods perpetuated by political opponents. Karl Rove defends President Bush’s achievements as "impressive, durable and significant" in his new book. Rove staunchly defends Bush's handling...
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MSNBC
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35723068/ns/today-today_people/
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...solicitations), he was the diabolical wizard who contrived their ruin. “I don’t know very many people who have accused Karl Rove of being a conservative,” sniffs right-wing icon Richard Viguerie. “And I’m not sure ‘courage’ is a word I’d use for him either.”...
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The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-04/karl-roves-conservative-problem/
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Karl Rove was a guest on Hannity last night (12/28/09) in a segment that was obviously set up to lambaste President Obama over the foiled terrorist attack on Christmas and coincidentally make the Bush administration look smart and tough on terrorism.
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News Hounds
http://www.newshounds.us/2009/12/29/karl_rove_attacks_obama_for_not_interrogating_terrorism_suspects_the_way_they_do_in_crime_movies_and_television_crime_dramas.php
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A deal brokered by the Obama White House to obtain Karl Rove’s
testimony before the House Judiciary Committee contains a number of
unusual provisions, prominent legal scholars say.
Rove testified before the Judiciary Committee on July 7 concerning
his
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at-Largely
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/lariska/atlargely/~3/VpIXVjGAznY/karl-roves-buddy-resigns-post-as-wh-counsel.html
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Associated Press Former Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate, Bob McDonnell, left, and Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds, right.
“Spooked”
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Analysis by Karl
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/karl-rove-tuesday-s-elections-and-the-obama-agenda/
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One of the most curious moments in Karl Rove’s recent testimony about the Don Siegelman case came when the former Bush White House adviser was asked about his primary contacts in Alabama.
Almost as an afterthought, Rove threw out a third name–a “lawyer”
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The Public Record
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Back in March, when House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers announced that he and his staff had reached an agreement to have Karl Rove and ex-White House Counsel Harriet Miers testify privately about their roles in the firings of nine U.S.
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The Public Record
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TPR_ThePublicRecord/~3/11ymo4OMdjE/
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QUOTE OF THE DAY.... I realize a lot of conservatives and members of the political establishment consider Karl Rove a credible figure. I've never understood why.
"[T]hat's what a lot of economists are saying. Our stimulus package is retarding the day
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Political Animal
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_08/019491.php
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Is Karl Rove a liar who should be drummed out of polite society--or, at least, the politerati?
The issue is not his conservative ideology or the still-resonating misdeeds and mistakes of the Bush presidency he made possible. The question is whether new
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Politics Daily
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/08/14/is-karl-rove-a-liar/
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online.wsj.com — About Karl Rove Karl Rove served as Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000–2007 and Deputy Chief of Staff from 2004–2007. At the White House he oversaw the Offices of Strategic Initiatives, Political Affairs, Public
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/karl_rove_obama_and_the_permanent_campaign_1/
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Karl Rove holds a "Free Don Siegelman" sign at a February 2008 event in Los Angeles. BradBlog reporter Alan Breslauer covered the event and convinced Rove to hold up the sign. Photo credit: Alan Breslauer for BradBlog.com
Reports in both the mainstream
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The Public Record
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As Rove discounts new proof of his influence in the firing of U.S. attorneys, Rove biographer James Moore explains how “Bush’s
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The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-13/the-pathology-of-karl-rove/
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Washington Post staff writer Carrie Johnson took your questions about newly released documents that expand on the role Bush administration officials Karl Rove and Harriet Miers played in the dismissal of a U.S. attorney. This Story Miers Told House
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/08/11/DI2009081102705.html?nav=rss_nation/special
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Congress Releases Rove And Miers Interviews On U.S. Attorney Firings
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 26 hours ago — The House Judiciary committee has posted the transcripts of its interviews with Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, about the U.S.
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/house_judiciary_committee_releases_rove_and_miers/
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online.wsj.com — Polling and focus groups have led the president astray on his top priority.
Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Daily Kos —
... on Sotomayor, members would do well to recognize the false choice between free speech and campaign finance
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/karl_rove_health_reform_and_the_tax_pledge/
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...a straight face, allowing for the possibility that there might be a positive answer. Is Karl Rove in Trouble? by David Corn Karl Rove is back in the news for Bush era shenanigans. This week, he finished giving testimony to the House judiciary committee regarding...
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Down With Tyranny!
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-karl-rove-in-trouble-is-pope-jewish.html
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In an interview Thursday, Iglesias said he was “not surprised” Bush “got involved in the decisions to dismiss the prosecutors.
“For something that became this politicized it had to get his input his approval,” Iglesias said. “I suspect when all the
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The Public Record
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TPR_ThePublicRecord/~3/CbGzgLKuiW4/
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emptywheel.firedoglake.com — Rove has, apparently, just finished up his second interview with the House Judiciary Committee on his role in the US Attorney firings. That apparently frees the Washington Post to reveal--and debunk--details of an
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/washington_post_rove_more_involved_in_us_attorney/
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online.wsj.com — The president resorts to the politics of fear.
Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Daily Kos —
... Karl Rove is still employed by the Wall Street Journal, apparently because they like people who spew talking points, misrepresent polling
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/karl_rove_obama_s_great_health_scare/
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online.wsj.com — About Karl Rove Karl Rove served as Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000–2007 and Deputy Chief of Staff from 2004–2007. At the White House he oversaw the Offices of Strategic Initiatives, Political Affairs, Public
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Beltway Blips
http://beltway.blips.com/story/karl_rove_obamacare_in_trouble/
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online.wsj.com — About Karl Rove Karl Rove served as Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000 2007 and Deputy Chief of Staff from 2004 2007. At the White House he oversaw the Offices of Strategic Initiatives, Political Affairs, Public
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/karl_rove_the_president_moves_the_economic_goalposts/
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The last circle in Dante’s hell was frozen.
Snuggies? Aren’t those like training bras for furries?
I read that as “Huggie” and figured Rove and David Vitter had some weird gay fetish.
just as I suspected, he’s a pedophile
I think I saw that movie. It
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Wonkette
http://wonkette.com/409872/karl-roves-office-filled-with-snuggie-creeps
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Ohhh, so THAT's why he continually refuses to obey subpoenas to testify before Congress.
Another example of how the GOP, lead by the likes of Rove, have zero respect for the law. There is a law that says the CIA has to inform certain members of
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Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/rove-dangerous-congress-information/
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...Karl Rove once dreamed of being himself 9] Karl Rove was expelled from day care twice for wearing his diaper inside out 10] Karl Rove's best friend in high school was a poster of Niccolo Machiavelli 12] Karl Rove memorized the Bible while doing crunches 13]...
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The New Republic
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2009/07/09/karl-rove-call-your-psychologist.aspx
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"My understanding is I am going to be questioned both about the U.S. attorneys [dismissals] and about the allegations that I was responsible for the prosecution of Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman...a lot of these answers particularly with regard to
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The Public Record
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TPR_ThePublicRecord/~3/4g0l1EtCemU/999-rove-disclosed-answers-to-house-panels-siegelman-prosecution-queries-.html
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"This White House has carried pre-packaged, organized, controlled, scripted events to a new height, and they're getting away with things that in any previous White House, the media would have eviscerated the press secretary and the White House for it."
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Political Animal
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_07/018906.php
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What a joke. The Fox audience is the only one that Karl can say this to with out being laughed off.
Yawwwn, Rove projecting again. Nothing new here.
New height? Only in that Obama is taller than Bush and works better off script.
Karl delivers another
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Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/02/rove-scripted-events/
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This fills my weekend with levity; actually, if Stooge Rove wasn't such an overt hypocrite, it might be something to give a second thought to. Rove's stooges on Fox Noise are clueless when it comes to truth, obviously, as they mark in moronic lockstep
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Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/19/rove-douglass-abc/
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...and stuff himself to death? Why must he continue to prove that he is the biggest fraud in American politics today? When Karl Rove goes on the offensive against leaking news, it pays to listen. Like a leak detection agent, Rove takes to task the leaking leaks...
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1861193/mahmoud_ahmadinejad_hires_karl_rove.html
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Screw you rove!
You shouldn't be talkin smack about anyone.
Traitor.
Isn't Karl-boy supposed to be in jail?
he got away with many things.....almost..
Pointing out that Bush likes his vacation days is not the reason she's bitter, twisted and
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Crooks and Liars
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/karl-rove-calls-maureen-dowd-bitter
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...you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I've always laughed at the idea that Karl Rove was some sort of "political genius." Sure, he's won a number of elections, but like I always say, "win what?" What exactly did he...
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The Classic Liberal
http://the-classic-liberal.com/myth-karl-rove/
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online.wsj.com — About Karl Rove Karl Rove served as Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000 2007 and Deputy Chief of Staff from 2004 2007. At the White House he oversaw the Offices of Strategic Initiatives, Political Affairs, Public
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/how_to_stop_socialized_health_care/
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The question is do they respect the policies of the United States government? And you bet they did. Because we showed strength and power and influence.
Let's fix this... were they afraid of being invaded by the United States? You bet they did. Because
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Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/05/rove-muslim/
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Is this supposed to be news?
(Rove) has said that she is ruled by “emotion,” called her “sort of a schoolmarm,” and questioned her intelligence.
- - Rove's arguments have all the tensile strength of a cobweb.
Rove wants a 'respectful' debate. Why, Oh
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Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/29/rove-sotomayor-respect/
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal prosecutor questioned former top presidential aide Karl Rove for several hours on Friday, trying to determine his precise role in the Bush administration's politically tinged firings of U.S. attorneys.
It was the first time
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Sioux City Journal
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2009/05/15/news/latest_news//2e7707fc6d90ee08862575b7007691f9.txt
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Source: Associated Press
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer Nedra Pickler, Associated Press Writer 18 mins ago
WASHINGTON A special prosecutor has ended her questioning of former White House aide Karl Rove in the investigation of the
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Democratic Underground
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...system under the Bush administration. You may think you know what happened and to whom, but The Political Prosecutions of Karl Rove provides unshakeable proof that the crimes of our Government were more egregious than ever thought and the work to earnestly...
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BusinessPortal24
http://www.businessportal24.com/en/The_Political_Prosecutions_Karl_Rove_367205.html
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'COLONELS IN MIRRORED SUNGLASSES'.... I can appreciate why Karl Rove is upset about recent revelations about Bush administration torture policies. After all, who wants their friends and colleagues to end up looking like war criminals? Rove has a
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Political Animal
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_04/017862.php
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Celebitchy aims to be a friendly, welcoming site where people can discuss entertainment stories and current events in a lighthearted, safe environment without fear of harassment, excessive negativity, or bullying. Different opinions,
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Celebitchy
http://www.celebitchy.com/47452/meghan_mccain_says_shes_being_followed_on_twitter_by_karl_rove/
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...this girl is a little weird. What Karl Rove stalking now? Indeed he is a creep I'm liking this girl more and more… Karl Rove is trying to get some political talking points from Meghan McCain. I guess he's beginning to realize that his divide and conquer politics...
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CNN
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_politicalticker/~3/zJ2GZjfRyx0/
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WILKES-BARRE – Former presidential adviser Karl Rove has met two popes, numerous world leaders and is regarded as an architect of Republican Party policymaking.
Former White House adviser Karl Rove speaks at the annual dinner for the Luzerne County
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Wilkes-Barre Weekender
http://www.timesleader.com/r?19=961&43=182021&44=43018977&32=3991&7=186426&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesleader.com%2Fnews%2FGOP_mastermind_shares_message_with_faithful_04-15-2009.html
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...was sent to Niger not by Cheney, but by an anti-Bush CIA cabal led by his wife who wanted to sabotage Bush's Iraq policy. As Karl Rove told Chris Matthews at the time, she was "fair game." I'm sure there are a thousand stories just like it. Remember when former...
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Democrats.com |
http://www.democrats.com/karl-rove-still-practices-blackmail
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...behind the throne during the Bush administration. Those people who considered President Bush unintelligent even consider Karl Rove "Bush's Brain", as the title of a book about Karl Rove read. Vice President Joe Biden, on the other hand, has a history of stretching...
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1639540/karl_rove_and_joe_biden_having_a_feud.html
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Vice President Biden and former Bush political sherpa Karl Rove are at it again, engaging in a new round of name-calling appropriate for a school yard near you.
In an interview yesterday with Fox News, Rove called Biden "a serial exaggerator" and a "
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The Washington Post
http://feeds.voices.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=4bcfca5605dd97ac6e1f0652d5bbaeb3
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Former Bush adviser Karl Rove was verbally accosted Thursday evening by an ex-chief of staff to former Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.).
Rove was quietly having dinner at the tony restaurant Charlie Palmer Steak on Capitol Hill when he was aggressively
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0409/Karl_Rove_accosted_by_ex_GOP_Chief_of_Staff.html

