Wed Jun 27, 2012, 01:12 PM

johnfunk (6,008 posts)

Karl Rove's Bisexual Affair Might Have Sparked His Bizarre Rant on Fox News

Karl Rove is having a bisexual affair with the president of a conservative bloggers' group, and concern about being outed sparked last week on Greta Van Susteren's Fox News program.

Rove's lover is Ali Akbar, president of the National Bloggers Club, an umbrella group that grew from the activism of the late right-wing publisher and pundit Andrew Breitbart. A left-leaning Web site called Breitbart Unmasked recently disclosed that Akbar has a criminal record that includes convictions for credit-card fraud, theft, and burglary.

The stunning allegations about Rove and Akbar are included in a letter sent yesterday from Alabama attorney Dana Jill Simpson to Robert Bauer, counsel for President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. The letter also includes an appeal for a presidential pardon on behalf of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.

Rove, appearing with Van Susteren on the June 20 edition of On the Record, took a question about the tax-exempt status of certain PACs and turned it into an attack on Simpson, Bauer, and Siegelman--who was the target of perhaps the most notorious political prosecution in U.S. history.

More at Legal Schnauzer.

Hat tip: APJ

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220 replies	Author	Time	Post
Karl Rove's Bisexual Affair Might Have Sparked His Bizarre Rant on Fox News (Original post)	johnfunk	Jun 2012	OP
True!	rufus dog	Jun 2012	#1
(there is some history here). . . . .n/t	annabanana	Jun 2012	#3
A mountain of history, in fact	johnfunk	Jun 2012	#4
EW!	spinbaby	Jun 2012	#33
Save some for rme....	dixiegrrrrl	Jun 2012	#44
The Rufus Dog is actually a Golden	rufus dog	Jun 2012	#107
My Golden actually is a good barker and growler at some people	dixiegrrrrl	Jun 2012	#115
If gays have to accept J Edgar was one of them, bis have to do the same with Karl	eridani	Jun 2012	#194
Sure! Besides, I want to see Rove in trouble. Just call me unfair and unbalanced about Rove...	freshwest	Jun 2012	#38
I call you Fair cause I would delight in Rove	goclark	Jun 2012	#181
So if I read your statement correctly	Rex	Jun 2012	#93
You really have to be in the weeds (and to have lived there for	annabanana	Jun 2012	#2
From last nights show...	Hyper_Eye	Jun 2012	#24
Karl loves a gay, money-stealing Muslim?	aquart	Jun 2012	#5
That's why I stopped reading Legal Schnauzer	struggle4progress	Jun 2012	#6
The guy does have an axe to grind.	trof	Jun 2012	#106
'what...is bisexual about guy/guy [love affair]?' Excellent point.	closeupready	Jun 2012	#7
Yes. Which is why I'm happy to promote the speculation.	aquart	Jun 2012	#9
Right. A person can be bisexual but they can't have a bisexual affair unless it is a threesome.	yellowcanine	Jun 2012	#25
I could imagine Rove in bed with a dead girl AND a live boy...	johnfunk	Jun 2012	#65
Sure he can!	Joe Bacon	Jun 2012	#72
I think it's because of this letter:	Alcibiades	Jun 2012	#173
Is the point of this gay innuendo, or something criminal? Mish-mash.	leveymg	Jun 2012	#58
It matters because of the homophobic agenda he supports, and you damn well know it. nt	LaydeeBug	Jun 2012	#103
it matters because rove has attacked other bisexual and homosexual people	samsingh	Jun 2012	#210
It matters because of all the anti-gay state ballot measures Rove...	JackRiddler	Jun 2012	#212
What part is innuendo? (NT)	The Wizard	Jun 2012	#64
I think it is just a typo... I'm pretty sure tha Rover ain't getting anything he hasn't paid for.	Thor_MN	Jun 2012	#175
if one or both of the guys go girl on occasion.	marble falls	Jun 2012	#195
ho hum	mysuzuki2	Jun 2012	#8
Very	Turbineguy	Jun 2012	#10
so this ali akbar set up a site to harvest credit card info from donors?	grasswire	Jun 2012	#11
You pretty much nailed it.	johnfunk	Jun 2012	#66
Somebody got naked with Karl Rove?	PlanetBev	Jun 2012	#12
+1	Proud Liberal Dem	Jun 2012	#14
I don't even want to think about that.	yellowcanine	Jun 2012	#26
O man.....	abelenkpe	Jun 2012	#31
specially his	onethatcares	Jun 2012	#46
the visuals are terrifying!	AlbertCat	Jun 2012	#74
somebody pass the bleach please...nt	magical thyme	Jun 2012	#43
Oh Help me	billybob537	Jun 2012	#200
This message was self-deleted by its author	Scootaloo	Jun 2012	#53
Good one	ArnoldLayne	Jun 2012	#79
DUzy!!!	Kahuna	Jun 2012	#84
Perhaps you could explain the joke to everyone	Marrah_G	Jun 2012	#164
NOT funny	Marrah_G	Jun 2012	#152
sad to see on DU	cwydro	Jun 2012	#186
I know, I know...	freshwest	Jun 2012	#158
Jeff Gannon/Guckert	SCVDem	Jun 2012	#13
Too F'n funny.	notadmblnd	Jun 2012	#54
Jeff Gannon/Guckert -either him or Scotty. -eom	Huey P. Long	Jun 2012	#215
Murky as hell. But then again, you DO have to ask -	calimary	Jun 2012	#15
Hopefully not the kind ...	neeksgeek	Jun 2012	#21
Yeah, I know. But this IS kkkarl rove we're talking about. With him, I wouldn't rule ANYTHING out.	calimary	Jun 2012	#67
If true, it proves that Karl Rove is not a racist. Ali Akbar is the one in the photo on the left.	AnotherMcIntosh	Jun 2012	#16
LOL that proves nothing	laundry_queen	Jun 2012	#45
Try again.	Tarheel_Dem	Jun 2012	#85
You never do make any sense.	AnotherMcIntosh	Jun 2012	#88
And it was "sensible" for you to post a pic of a dark skinned man, and claim KKRove can't ......	Tarheel_Dem	Jun 2012	#94
That made perfect sense.	Iggo	Jun 2012	#135
Strom Thurmond had a bi-racial daughter, does that mean he was not a racist?	Bjorn Against	Jun 2012	#101
+1. Apparently the poster has absolutely no frame of reference for this issue. It was a nonsensical	Tarheel_Dem	Jun 2012	#112
Err, Not Even Close	Skraxx	Jun 2012	#105
Thanks for educating me! Now I know that Jesse Helms wasn't racist either!	EOTE	Jun 2012	#109
+1	Tarheel_Dem	Jun 2012	#110
By that logic, a man who is married to a woman can't be a misogynist.	NYC Liberal	Jun 2012	#120
That explains Rush's marriages. Oh, wait. Karl and Rush in one thread is too much. Gotta go and...	freshwest	Jun 2012	#122
Thomas Jefferson slept with his slaves.	rateyes	Jun 2012	#174
This message was self-deleted by its author	Zalatix	Jun 2012	#17
Being gay is a "lifestyle CHOICE"??????????????	dixiegrrrrl	Jun 2012	#49
that was quite a tell there wasn't it.	notadmblnd	Jun 2012	#57
I know, had to re-read that for myself.	Rex	Jun 2012	#95
This message was self-deleted by its author	Zalatix	Jun 2012	#145
This message was self-deleted by its author	Kaleva	Jun 2012	#159
My post was marked as a TOS violation?	Zalatix	Jun 2012	#166
This message was self-deleted by its author	Kaleva	Jun 2012	#167
In your opinion, is homosexuality a lifestyle choice?	uppityperson	Jun 2012	#178
I self-delete only when I feel I mis-spoke and it provoked people. This was one of those cases.	Zalatix	Jun 2012	#182
I think that confronting "It's a lifestyle choice" rather than inherent is important.	uppityperson	Jun 2012	#187
The word "lifestyle" makes me want to figuratively beat the user to a bloody pulp	eridani	Jun 2012	#196
It is a choice	Alcibiades	Jun 2012	#165
Whoa! What?!?	Iggo	Jun 2012	#138
This message was self-deleted by its author	Zalatix	Jun 2012	#148
Celibacy is a lifestyle choice. Sexual orientation, though, is something that is hard-wired. It's	MADem	Jun 2012	#151
I completely understand. Society has no place even caring either way.	Zalatix	Jun 2012	#172
How does having his sexual orientation become public "legitimize homophobia"?	uppityperson	Jun 2012	#180
Here's my reasoning.	Zalatix	Jun 2012	#190
Maybe you should work on purging yourself of "sexual preferences", and "lifestyle choice" vs orienta	uppityperson	Jun 2012	#213
No, it was a misstatement.	Zalatix	Jun 2012	#214
first of all, he did not have a bi-sexual affair.	dixiegrrrrl	Jun 2012	#202
It's not a lifestyle choice	Marrah_G	Jun 2012	#153
Evidence? Or is this just more gay-baiting homophobic bullshit?	Maven	Jun 2012	#18
If a gay man is raising millions to promote anti-gay legislation?	aquart	Jun 2012	#22
Using an unfounded gay rumor against someone is a Rovian tactic.	Maven	Jun 2012	#50
Sometimes that petard just hoists.	aquart	Jun 2012	#191
Thanks. That was my interpretation of this as well.	Puregonzo1188	Jun 2012	#23
+1!	RufusTFirefly	Jun 2012	#28
It's gossip and people who respond to propaganda love gossip	just1voice	Jun 2012	#32
DU can use the cover of 'hypocrisy' all they want.	xchrom	Jun 2012	#34
That's bullshit	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	Jun 2012	#40
That's how I see it. nt	NCTraveler	Jun 2012	#61
+1000	Rowdyboy	Jun 2012	#100
That's the first thing I thought.	UnrepentantLiberal	Jun 2012	#108
"Oh, I know: homophobia is OK if your target is someone we hate. Right?"	WilliamPitt	Jun 2012	#59
Is there proof? Or just unsubstantiated rumor?	Maven	Jun 2012	#87
And if there's proof, then what?	Iggo	Jun 2012	#147
Of course not.	Maven	Jun 2012	#161
Sorry. That was clumsy.	Iggo	Jun 2012	#168
No worries.	Maven	Jun 2012	#170
Comments like.....	Marrah_G	Jun 2012	#160
Pretty much	RZM	Jun 2012	#82
I will always remember when Jeff Gannon talked about protestors outside of ......	Botany	Jun 2012	#19
Looking at the link and other links,	MineralMan	Jun 2012	#20
Won't Jeff Gannon be upset?	sinkingfeeling	Jun 2012	#27
Somebody's having sex with Rove	get the red out	Jun 2012	#29
Remember the gay male prostitute journalist plant?	joeybee12	Jun 2012	#30
Is this from the Onion? nt	abelenkpe	Jun 2012	#35
I'm disappointed. I thought he was involved with David Gregory, since they dance so well together.	freshwest	Jun 2012	#36
OK that was pretty funny....	Marie Marie	Jun 2012	#134
Don't make me post the video. I do that a lot, you know. LOL!	freshwest	Jun 2012	#137
Hey - whatever you feel is right freshwest.	Marie Marie	Jun 2012	#146
No, can't bear to see it again. Love your sig line, that was my motto years ago.	freshwest	Jun 2012	#149
Well thank you and won't you consider re-adopting it?	Marie Marie	Jun 2012	#171
I am glad Rove has someone to love. Now, can we get Siegelman out of jail?	McCamy Taylor	Jun 2012	#37
Without a presidential pardon, it looks bleak. And they don't do that until leaving office, right?	freshwest	Jun 2012	#39
Gerald Ford didn't wait to give Nixon one. Obama has already granted some pardons.	MADem	Jun 2012	#141
Difference would be they admitted guilt and reformed. I doubt if Seigelman would do that, since he	freshwest	Jun 2012	#142
It will be a tough call for POTUS.	MADem	Jun 2012	#184
I'm shocked...	liberalmuse	Jun 2012	#41
You had me at Karl Rove's bisexual affair	AnnieK401	Jun 2012	#42
Please don't insult bisexuality by ...	99Forever	Jun 2012	#47
I hate to have to defend Rove, but so far that all sounds like unfounded innuendo to me.	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#48
Thank You for saying that. I probably hate the guy more than anyone else.....	left on green only	Jun 2012	#55
I agree. Even if it is true . . . . . why don't we leave people alone, good people,	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#99
Well, according to your criteria, Rove is fair game.	TalkingDog	Jun 2012	#199
OK. You have a point, but I hate to see meaningful political discussion	JDPriestly	Jun 2012	#220
People like salacious rumors that suggest intolerant people are engaging in the behavior they	MADem	Jun 2012	#144
This message was hidden by jury decision.	Balmer Liberal	Jun 2012	#51
Your phrasing makes my skin crawl.	Bluenorthwest	Jun 2012	#68
Good post, Balmer!	johnfunk	Jun 2012	#69
Wow, a crook, a liar AND cruising for gays?!	Maven	Jun 2012	#92
Found this as well, asking Akbar to step down from Natl Bloggers Club	SleeplessinSoCal	Jun 2012	#52
Akbar says...	Ian David	Jun 2012	#56
I think this is the funniest post in this thread! nt	MADem	Jun 2012	#156
This message was self-deleted by its author	Kingofalldems	Jun 2012	#60
Stories of Rove's visits to Austin gay clubs have been reported for years.	The Wizard	Jun 2012	#62
"Some people want to know if ....." Stop it.	yellowcanine	Jun 2012	#70
I'd say top, as we say here in West Virginia he has some mighty fine purdy lips.	ArnoldLayne	Jun 2012	#81
Wouldn't a bisexual affair have to involve both sexes?	begin_within	Jun 2012	#63
I am thinking at minimum it would have to be a threesome involving both sexes.	yellowcanine	Jun 2012	#71
Karl had a phony marriage	Doctor_J	Jun 2012	#117
Wrong	Marrah_G	Jun 2012	#185
Shades of Jeff Gannon . . . nt	TomClash	Jun 2012	#73
Hey, KKKarl . . .	TomClash	Jun 2012	#75
I hope someone covers this tonight	Kingofalldems	Jun 2012	#76
This message was self-deleted by its author	jorno67	Jun 2012	#77
So did Rove have an office in the WH when Gannon visited?	Kingofalldems	Jun 2012	#78
Yes.	johnfunk	Jun 2012	#89
I heard this kind of thing in 2004.	RandySF	Jun 2012	#80
"word was..." "Some say..." "I heard..."	Dreamer Tatum	Jun 2012	#86
One of my best friends who is gay	Digit	Jun 2012	#133
I've heard this type of thing before. Sounds like bullshit to me	RZM	Jun 2012	#83
Gross. Who would do Karl Rove?	Quantess	Jun 2012	#90
I always figured he had the hots for Shrub	GCP	Jun 2012	#91
Bad taste, bad breath, bad sex.	leveymg	Jun 2012	#96
I've always suspected that W smells bad.	grasswire	Jun 2012	#114
Couldn't be as bad as Eau d' Karl	leveymg	Jun 2012	#125
Hmmmm, do tell... KKKarl had a big ol' mancrush on Dubya who liked to play S&M dress up with....	Raster	Jun 2012	#128
I REMEMBER that comment....and thought it strange at the time.	dixiegrrrrl	Jun 2012	#203
I agree that this is apparently unsubstantiated and irrelevant speculation . . .	snot	Jun 2012	#97
Karl Rove even sleeps with terrorists!	meow2u3	Jun 2012	#98
But they have to have their native soil in the coffin first... Oh, no, that's Romney. Never mind.	freshwest	Jun 2012	#150
I truly prefer to think of him....	hlthe2b	Jun 2012	#102
maybe it's a 3-way......	la la	Jun 2012	#104
K & R !!!	WillyT	Jun 2012	#111
Why wont Anon find some smut on Rove's harddrive? nm	rhett o rick	Jun 2012	#113
If he's gonna hack a hard drive can he please do Clarence Thomas?	aquart	Jun 2012	#192
And it would be nice to get another Obama appointee.	rhett o rick	Jun 2012	#205
Jeff Gannon was Rove's personal hooker	Doctor_J	Jun 2012	#116
I thought Rove was gay, but, of course, could never say it, because he's part of a homophobic party.	valerief	Jun 2012	#118
What is "bisexual" about a homosexual affair?	WinkyDink	Jun 2012	#119
I assume the article is saying he is attracted to both men and women	Marrah_G	Jun 2012	#197
rove	john89	Jun 2012	#121
Some of the responders in this thread are implying	Doctor_J	Jun 2012	#123
You can disparage KKKarl Rove all you freakin' like. He most certainly deserves it.	Raster	Jun 2012	#132
The sad truth	ruggerson	Jun 2012	#140
No, we're implying that calling him a closeted gay without any proof	Maven	Jun 2012	#162
Lame attempt at the old 'let's tie this around all their necks' gambit	Bluenorthwest	Jun 2012	#208
Remember this?	Spitfire of ATJ	Jun 2012	#124
Snort ...	GeorgeGist	Jun 2012	#126
Let the sunshine!!!	butterfly77	Jun 2012	#127
All I can say is Allahu Akbar	BeyondGeography	Jun 2012	#129
This thread is rife with homophobic comments	ruggerson	Jun 2012	#130
I'm fucking horrified by the comments on this thread	Marrah_G	Jun 2012	#154
This thread is horrifying. I can't say I'm suprised though.	myrna minx	Jun 2012	#198
The olde Turd blossom...........	Historic NY	Jun 2012	#131
What I remember from yorn.	Rain Mcloud	Jun 2012	#136
I know this can't be true	Smilo	Jun 2012	#139
Nah, he barely tolerates himself at best. KKKarl is a self-hating, self-loathing kind of guy.	Raster	Jun 2012	#143
Does that make him ...	radicalliberal	Jun 2012	#179
Saying the same letter contained rover allegations + Siegelman appeal/request?	elleng	Jun 2012	#155
=Did not need to know this=	Fire Walk With Me	Jun 2012	#157
I guess there's someone for everyone, straight, gay or whatever	tularetom	Jun 2012	#163
Here's more	Alcibiades	Jun 2012	#169
makes no sense	Enrique	Jun 2012	#176
Even if true, what accounts for all his other bizarre rants on Fox News? n/t	gkhouston	Jun 2012	#177
I always thought he	libodem	Jun 2012	#183
Threads like this sure do shed a lot	TriMera	Jun 2012	#188
don't worry it's okay	loveloveforever	Jun 2012	#218
Spam deleted by OKNancy (MIR Team)	Louise1	Jun 2012	#189
after	PatrynXX	Jun 2012	#193
Most republicans I know are Buy-sexual!	Hubert Flottz	Jun 2012	#201
Indeed. If they want it they have to buy it.	avaistheone1	Jun 2012	#216
What a shitty McCarthyite piece, filled with bigoted memes, insinuation and not a shred of fact	Bluenorthwest	Jun 2012	#204
Why is just about every individual we find to be revolting "accused" of being gay	The Link	Jun 2012	#206
the old Velvet Mafia allegations, if true, are relevant only to the extent that Rove demagogued	nashville_brook	Jun 2012	#207
Fuck everyone of you who put erotic images of Karl Rove in my head just now	Bucky	Jun 2012	#209
You can't have a bisexual affair with one person	Fearless	Jun 2012	#211
um barf and what	cindyperry2010	Jun 2012	#217
This message was hidden by jury decision.	loveloveforever	Jun 2012	#219

Response to johnfunk (Original post)

Wed Jun 27, 2012, 01:17 PM

rufus dog (4,947 posts)

1. True!

Must be because I read it.

Karl Rove's Bisexual Affair Might Have Sparked His Bizarre Rant on Fox News

1. True!

3. (there is some history here). . . . .n/t

4. A mountain of history, in fact

33. EW!

44. Save some for rme....

107. The Rufus Dog is actually a Golden

115. My Golden actually is a good barker and growler at some people

194. If gays have to accept J Edgar was one of them, bis have to do the same with Karl

38. Sure! Besides, I want to see Rove in trouble. Just call me unfair and unbalanced about Rove...

181. I call you Fair cause I would delight in Rove

93. So if I read your statement correctly

2. You really have to be in the weeds (and to have lived there for

24. From last nights show...

5. Karl loves a gay, money-stealing Muslim?

6. That's why I stopped reading Legal Schnauzer

106. The guy does have an axe to grind.

7. 'what...is bisexual about guy/guy [love affair]?' Excellent point.

9. Yes. Which is why I'm happy to promote the speculation.

25. Right. A person can be bisexual but they can't have a bisexual affair unless it is a threesome.

65. I could imagine Rove in bed with a dead girl AND a live boy...

72. Sure he can!

173. I think it's because of this letter:

58. Is the point of this gay innuendo, or something criminal? Mish-mash.

103. It matters because of the homophobic agenda he supports, and you damn well know it. nt

210. it matters because rove has attacked other bisexual and homosexual people

212. It matters because of all the anti-gay state ballot measures Rove...

64. What part is innuendo? (NT)

175. I think it is just a typo... I'm pretty sure tha Rover ain't getting anything he hasn't paid for.

195. if one or both of the guys go girl on occasion.

8. ho hum

10. Very

11. so this ali akbar set up a site to harvest credit card info from donors?

66. You pretty much nailed it.

12. Somebody got naked with Karl Rove?

14. +1

26. I don't even want to think about that.

31. O man.....

46. specially his

74. the visuals are terrifying!

43. somebody pass the bleach please...nt

200. Oh Help me

79. Good one

84. DUzy!!!

164. Perhaps you could explain the joke to everyone

152. NOT funny

186. sad to see on DU

158. I know, I know...

13. Jeff Gannon/Guckert

54. Too F'n funny.

215. Jeff Gannon/Guckert -either him or Scotty. -eom

15. Murky as hell. But then again, you DO have to ask -

21. Hopefully not the kind ...

67. Yeah, I know. But this IS kkkarl rove we're talking about. With him, I wouldn't rule ANYTHING out.

16. If true, it proves that Karl Rove is not a racist. Ali Akbar is the one in the photo on the left.

45. LOL that proves nothing

85. Try again.

88. You never do make any sense.

94. And it was "sensible" for you to post a pic of a dark skinned man, and claim KKRove can't ......

135. That made perfect sense.

101. Strom Thurmond had a bi-racial daughter, does that mean he was not a racist?

112. +1. Apparently the poster has absolutely no frame of reference for this issue. It was a nonsensical

105. Err, Not Even Close

109. Thanks for educating me! Now I know that Jesse Helms wasn't racist either!

110. +1

120. By that logic, a man who is married to a woman can't be a misogynist.

122. That explains Rush's marriages. Oh, wait. Karl and Rush in one thread is too much. Gotta go and...

174. Thomas Jefferson slept with his slaves.

49. Being gay is a "lifestyle CHOICE"??????????????

57. that was quite a tell there wasn't it.

95. I know, had to re-read that for myself.

166. My post was marked as a TOS violation?

178. In your opinion, is homosexuality a lifestyle choice?

182. I self-delete only when I feel I mis-spoke and it provoked people. This was one of those cases.

187. I think that confronting "It's a lifestyle choice" rather than inherent is important.

196. The word "lifestyle" makes me want to figuratively beat the user to a bloody pulp

165. It is a choice

138. Whoa! What?!?

151. Celibacy is a lifestyle choice. Sexual orientation, though, is something that is hard-wired. It's

172. I completely understand. Society has no place even caring either way.

137. Don't make me post the video. I do that a lot, you know. LOL!