Rove-Gannon Connection? Anyone here see this? CBS news

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/opinion/lynch/main675050.shtml



CBS) Dotty Lynch is the Senior Political Editor for CBS News. E-mail your questions and comments to Political Points
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Karl Rove took a victory lap at an SRO lunch at the Conservative Political Action Committee meeting at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington on Thursday. After a glowing introduction by Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association, Rove proclaimed "conservatism as the dominant political creed in America," but warned Republicans not to get complacent or grow "tired and timid." He recalled the dark days when the Democrats were dominant and cautioned that that could happen again if they let down their guard. The new White House deputy chief of staff also called on conservatives to "seize the mantle of idealism."

Tired and timid are two adjectives never applied to Rove. The architect of the Bush victories in 2000 and 2004 came through the ranks of college Republicans with the late Lee Atwater, and their admitted and alleged dirty tricks are the legends many young political operatives dream of pulling off. So when Jeff Gannon, White House "reporter" for Talon "News," was unmasked last week, the leap to a possible Rove connection was unavoidable. Gannon says that he met Rove only once, at a White House Christmas party, and Gannon is kind of small potatoes for Rove at this point in his career.

But Rove's dominance of White House and Republican politics, Gannon's aggressively partisan work and the ease with which he got day passes for the White House press room the past two years make it hard to believe that he wasn't at least implicitly sanctioned by the "boy genius." Rove, who rarely gave on-the-record interviews to the MSM (mainstream media), had time to talk to GOPUSA, which owns Talon.
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Got the link from here (facinating and troubling read)

http://tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=107&mode=&order=0&thold=0

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1. Wouldn't Rove love to have a male prostitute around to blackmail those he

needed to control....like journalists, politicians and lawmakers, both Ds and Rs.

Poppy Bush was known for setting up compromising business situations as Nixon's vote wrangler....even blackmailing those lawmakers in his own party, to gain control of their vote for Nixon.

Does anyone think Karl Rove would be above employing that tactic of using personal or business situations?

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2. not me!