Arianna Discussing Rove's Attack on History with Keith Olbermann

Arianna appeared on Countdown tonight to discuss Karl Rove's efforts to rewrite history on the war in Iraq, George Orwell's 1984 and why Rove is a "shameless, remorseless and perhaps soulless political animal, who cannot help himself, even when he's out of the White House":

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[AbstractImp]

The Blind Trailing the Blind

It's funny to watch people get offended, especially when they should know better. For anyone alive in America today to support the Bush-Cheney-Rove fiasco that is "our presidential administration", is to identify themselves with the inhuman.

Your "leaders" invaded a foreign nation without cause, murdered a million innocent civilians, destroyed the foundation of the Bill of Rights which once protected YOU, and let the national concern for its own sag into the mud of Katrina.

This is Bush's war, and belongs to no one else. To hear them lie and place blame elsewhere than on themselves, is in fact to hear more of the same.

Asked for a fact, Rove claims, "I just said it." This attitude is no different from Bush himself, and certainly Cheney. Can't you hear the same liar's rhetoric from Giuliani and Romney?

Every dictator needs a spit-bag, willing to lie into the face of the world for each minor political gain. And when you are appealing to the least common denominator, such as that portion of the American "electorate" whose knuckles still scrape the ground, you are forced to tell ever bigger lies.

The great lie has begun. With the bald-headed pork-ass Rove out on the sidelines but still working the same "groove", he will bump and stump for whatever rump the Gulag-Of-Pigs sticks into our face as their "legitimate" candidate.

I question anyone who is surprised by this "man", or who expects anything different from him.

He is already working for Giuliani - as is FOX. To put any of these on a diet of truth would starve them out. But it might help to raise the conversation above the level of game shows, though I am certain the "Americans" you rub elbows with are not intellectually prepared.

So, vote your self-interests again, America, and just let all the principles die on the vine.

The blind, you see, are short-sighted - both forward and into the past. And like good little sheep, they run after whoever has the "safest" lies.

[spicegal]

Orwell's 1984 has indeed become reality in this country. With the exception of KO, I suspect the MSM will roll over and play dead while allowing the "shameless, remorseless, and soulless" Karl Rove to rewrite history. Karl Rove should be locked away, not given a platform to espouse his lies.

[CharleyJames]

Karl Rove has just created a whole new dimension to the word "chutzpah.­"

[fanchmd]

I agree with Arianna but it wasn't the Iraq Study Group that hastened the march to war. It was the WHIG ... White House Iraq Group.

[larryfishkorn]

It's funny how there was so much public outrage about the OJ book "If I Did It", yet Rove is given an open forum on Charlie Rose and Newsweek to continue merrily on to his next project. I just wish the media were more like they are in Europe. If Rove had said that to a real journalist, he would have been shot down like a clay pigeon.

[Leda]

We need to extricate ourselves from this facism. my fear is that we'll get too bogged down with the hairsplitting. these guys are evil & they are the enemy. they have to go-I'm glad to hear Arianna focused on the true enemy. nuff of the clinton bashing. if we get another repub-we'll be very sorry.

[ramal]

If you don't believe in the reincarnation of the human soul you need look no further than the Rove/Joseph Goebbels connection. For the first six years that Bush ruled, the Congress was little more than a rubber stamp in the best Soviet tradition. We live in a nation of toads and fools.

[cowboyneok]

"Insane chutzpah" of Rove. You said it, Arianna!

[springsm]

What is really disturbing is that this lying arrogant evil person, Rove, is trying to change history. How in the world will that be stopped. The 23% will adore this informatio­n..and 30 years down the road..what will kids be learning in school about the bush bash. That is if this is still the United States of America.

[SeriousBlack]

How do you spell LIAR? R-O-V-E.

[TXfemmom]

One can bet that many Republicans will be repeating that talking point in the coming year.

Oh yeah, THE SENATE MADE US GO TO WAR BEFORE WE KNEW THE TRUTH.

Rove and the administration have stood up and lied, in the face of the truth, and bent it to the lie in so many ways and in so many instances that they shall continue to do so, until someone or something smacks the crap out of them.

[Jane22]

Thank you, Arianna, for once again going out to bravely speak the truth. This Rove abberated anomaly really has some nerve! As you say and we all know, there is far too much evidence to re-write this history for the gullible to swallow. What I find scary to ponder is how the future, if there is a future, will be rewritten for the children to swallow the ego-centric history of America as some liar will get paid to change the facts to make might look right! Keep om keeping on! Peace

[Talcott]

Cementing his reputation as a Liar.

[liveandlearn]

IMPEACH!!! there, i've said it again, because it is the central message congress and this country needs to be saying to the world.

for peace, sustainability and the rule of law

[dutchess2]

And yet, this liar has just been hired by Newsweek to write for them... Imagine!

Newsweek, one of the premier sources of information with a distribution in how many different countries?

But not at my house any more.... if they can afford Rove, they don't need me.