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Saturday 17 July 2010

Sixteen years after Karl Rove used push-poll robocalls to ask Texas voters, “Would you be more or less likely to vote for Governor [Ann] Richards if you knew her staff is dominated by lesbians”; ten years after he used fliers and phone calls to spread rumors among primary voters in South Carolina that John McCain was gay (“The Fag Candidate”) and that the adopted daughter that his wife had brought home from Bangladesh was actually McCain’s own biological daughter after an interracial affair; after using 9/11 as a cudgel to accuse Democrats in the 2002 races of being soft on terrorism, when he wasn’t using it to accuse them of treason; after engineering the attacks on Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame, Karl Rove would like to apologize for his role in “poison[ing] America’s political discourse” in a way that “opened the way for politicians in both parties to move the debate from differences over issues into ad hominem attacks.” Rove’s apology comes in the form of a Wall Street Journal editorial in which he expresses regret for not having hit back at Democrats who accused his Pet Rock, President Bush, of having lied about Saddam Hussein having WMDs as a pretext for getting us into war with Iraq, something he calls “a shameful episode in our political life whose poisonous fruits are still with us.” Not the war, you understand, or the race to get it under way come hell or high water, never mind the existence of an actual threat from Iraq or the quality of the intelligence cited to support it, but the temerity of those who doubted the President’s good word. Phil Nugent

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