Karl Rove Trashes Maureen Dowd: "Bitter, Twisted, Deranged Columnist"

Karl Rove slammed Maureen Dowd for trashing former President Bush in her latest column on President Obama's leisure time.

"I think Maureen Dowd is a bitter, twisted, deranged columnist for the New York Times who misses no opportunity to show her disdain for anybody on the conservative side of the aisle," the Bush adviser and Fox News contributor said in an interview with Fox News' Martha MacCallum. "I actually went to an editorial board meeting at the New York Times and wasted a couple bucks on some flowers to give Maureen Dowd at the meeting so that it would give her a smile on her face. And that didn't even work. This is a dour, downbeat liberal."

Dowd wrote Wednesday:

With two wars and G.M. in bankruptcy proceedings, shouldn't the president be glued to the grindstone, emulating W.'s gravity when he sacrificed golf in 2003 as the Iraq insurgency spread?

"I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf," the former president explained later. "I think, you know, playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."

Actually, what sends the wrong signal is going to war with a phony justification, inadequate troop levels, insufficient armor, an inept Defense secretary and an inability to admit for years, deadly ones, that you needed counterinsurgency experts.

Rove did acknowledge that Dowd's most recent column was "entertaining" and said that while he admires her writing, "she is a very nasty, snarky person."

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Comments

[LiberalForever]

Rove is an insult to humanity. He is a total liar. A criminal. He deserves prison, at the least.

[Puffin16]

Congrats, Maureen. If you smile at him, the terrorists win.

[sammyscout]

and the world keeps spinning,
and bush, Cheney, Yoo and rove roam free and flourish
and Obama is scared to take action against the last administration
in case he is dealt the same way once out of office

[BadgersBite]

Karl Rove - What Ever It Is I'm Against It

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=49338827

[hopeforchangenow]

Go to jail, directly to jail. Do not pass go. Go directly to jail. And watch out for those bars of soap in the shower.

[zanzig]

Since I expect projection from Rove I discounted every snide derogatory comment he made about Dowd, but the one that got me this time was his comment that he went to an editorial Board meeting at NYT and took flowers for Dowd. TOOK FLOWERS FOR A COLLEAGUE TO A WORK MEETING? And expected to get a smile of gratitude? What a dinosaur.

[KHAAANNN]

If Karl Rove is angry at you, you must have told the truth.

[JustLeftOfRight]

Will Fox let him do his remotes from jail?

[CryptoSolipsist]

"she is a very nasty, snarky person." That is high praise indeed from a demon like Rove!

[Andrew Shapter]

Thanks Karl,

You just reminded me that I should be reading Dowd more. She's one of the best in the biz. Getting the hate-filled spew from you only sent more readers her way.

No mater how many hours you log in at Fox News, history is not going to treat you kindly.

[poobah]

Bush is on pace to have spent 499 days on vacation during his two terms. Most of it has been spent hunkering down in his Crawford, Texas, bunker. ---The Village Voice

[UsofA]

Uh, Karl, look up 'projecting' in the dictionary.

[poobah]

Wasn't W on "vacation" for the entire month before 9/11? After he started the war, he still took more "vacation" than any other president.

[HDR]

Hey Karl, you left out one more description of Dowd: "Not to be indicted anytime soon."

[Cogs]

Karl Rove is the leading expert on presidents who vacation too much.