Obama Spokesman Bill Burton Compares Rove To A Funeral Director

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NY Times   |  JIM RUTENBERG and JACQUES STEINBERG   |   May 12, 2008 10:26 AM


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Late Thursday night, Karl Rove, the architect of the last two Republican presidential victories, was on his new television perch at Fox News, offering free advice to Senator Barack Obama as he closed in on the Democratic nomination....

"Wouldn't taking his advice be a little like getting health tips from a funeral home director?" said Mr. Obama's press secretary, Bill Burton.

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Funeral directors perform a very useful service, and, let's face it, there will ALWAYS be a demand for that service. I can't think of one useful thing that Karl Rove has done in his life--the least useful thing he did was persuading Frat Boy to get into politics (since he was a failure at everything else he did!). The rest, as they say, is infamy!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:19 PM on 05/12/2008

Is he not the most unattractive man you have ever seen?!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:43 PM on 05/12/2008

sorry, I think he is second to James Carville, that guy is gross, and he wasn't when he was younger, so he is Dorian Grey in reverse... his ugly soul is visible on the outside. Rove is a very close second. ;)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:57 PM on 05/12/2008

Every time i see Rove on the t.v. I just start laughing. It's fun to see a spinner out of power & trying to sell himself.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:27 PM on 05/12/2008

Karl Rove, like anyone with intelligence listens to this moron. I personally have boycotted Newsweek because they allow that pea brain to express his views in their magazine. Everyone should call and express their concerns for our young kids being exposed to such a , ah can't exactly find the word that is appropriate.
Fox News: Reality check , only nut jobs watch your network, your ratings are down and you basically are so bias that I personally have blocked the channel so my children aren't exposed to your rhetoric.

Karl Rove what a complete joke! I am LOL

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:16 PM on 05/12/2008

Doesnt he remind you of Joeseph Goebbles mostly because he is a facist swine. And because this guy could have easily worked for ether Stalin or Hitler as their director of Agitprop.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:40 PM on 05/12/2008

at least theres job security as a FD

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:06 PM on 05/12/2008

Wise up, people. Rove engineered Obama's candidacy in the first place, with the goal of knocking out Clinton. In 2004, he went to Chicago, the most corrupt political town in the nation, and found this good-looking character with skeletons bulging in his closet. Plenty of October Surprises there. All he had to do was get him elected to U.S. Senate, so Dennis Hastert and the Illinois G.O.P. ran an unknown from Maryland against him, and presto, it's Senator Obama. A year later the presidential exploratory committee is formed, former Bush strategists and fundraisers climb on board, the brother of Fox News VP David Rhodes hires on as the senior speechwriter, and the corporate media starts offering classes to its employees on how to ask questions that embarrass Hillary Clinton. For more on the Ocober Surprises, see an article I've posted at thecityedition.com. Here's a link.

http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/OctoberSurprise.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:04 PM on 05/12/2008

Does YRM stand for You're Really Moronic?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:39 PM on 05/12/2008

Do you have a small you know? starts with a p and ends with s??? Man, you guys can really dream up some tails. Good luck with that.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:17 PM on 05/12/2008

YRM is obviously a bit delusional.

But what is your fixation with genitalia? Really creepyt!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:44 PM on 05/12/2008

I've always compared him to "Squealer" in Orwell's Animal Farm.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:49 PM on 05/12/2008

good one!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:19 PM on 05/12/2008

I get Burton's point.
One could call Rove anything, but that would be insulting anything.
Rove would never say: "I am not a crook"
But then like Kristol, credibility is not their job.
I am astonished that their words are even repeated.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:46 PM on 05/12/2008

I have to agree that the headline involving funeral directors is disresepctful to the people employed in this profession. On the other hand, the article gives more insight into Karl Rove - monster-at-large. Fox News seems to be a fitting place for this abomination of a man.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:42 PM on 05/12/2008

seconded!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:45 PM on 05/12/2008

Burton better issue a quick apology to funeral directors.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:23 PM on 05/12/2008

Not a very good comparison.

Funeral directors, in general, do not help kill the people for whom the funeral is held.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:12 PM on 05/12/2008

Haha...damn he's so hideous.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:11 PM on 05/12/2008

if the funeral director is... jeffrey dahmer.

throw rove in prison.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:55 AM on 05/12/2008

You are so right , he is more like the execututioner.... of America

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:00 PM on 05/12/2008

"...Bill Burton Compares Rove To A Funeral Director."

I agree with other posters that this is an insult to funeral directors everywhere. Funeral directors help arrange a long, cathartic goodbye to deceased loved ones. As a key part of the Bush 'plague' visited upon America, Rove was instrumental in increasing the number of deceased loved ones.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:50 AM on 05/12/2008

Burton's description of Rove is the best one I have heard yet~~~

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:47 AM on 05/12/2008

This picture of Rove is Hilarious.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:35 AM on 05/12/2008

Let's bury Rove !

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:30 AM on 05/12/2008

He doesn't deserve the promotion from mortician, let alone grave robber.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:19 AM on 05/12/2008

WHY is this man still around? He should be in jail! Our new EXIT plan! Here is the last 2 minutes of a soldiers life Copy and paste the and pass it along to everyone in your address book! http://www.myspace.com/Craftymusic

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:15 AM on 05/12/2008

yes rove will be directing over obama's funeral....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:13 AM on 05/12/2008

Funerals? Do you actually think people like Rove hold funerals. The living dead feast on the bodies of the living. It's their way.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:21 AM on 05/12/2008

ROFLMAO!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:50 AM on 05/12/2008

This is an insult to those morticians who don't sodomize dead bodies.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:06 AM on 05/12/2008

Are you suggesting Rove suffers from Necrophilia? I am aware that he has screwed the living but the dead too?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:19 AM on 05/12/2008

I'm not suggesting Rove suffers from necrophilia, I suspect he enjoys it very much.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:43 PM on 05/12/2008

Why do you think he's created so many of them?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:59 AM on 05/12/2008

Haven't you read his book "Necrophilia and You - The Cold Facts"?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:35 AM on 05/12/2008

That remark is unfair.......to the funeral director

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:59 AM on 05/12/2008
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