Garrison Keillor: Karl Rove, The Real Story

[dooner]

Karl Rove: the real story
By Garrison Keillor / Tribune Media Services, Inc.
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2005
ST. PAUL, Minnesota Did he know?


I feel it's time for me to step forward and tell what I know about Karl Rove's conversation with columnist Robert Novak in which Novak reportedly told Rove that CIA operative Valerie Plame had been responsible for her husband Joseph Wilson going to Niger to debunk the White House's claim that Saddam Hussein was shopping for uranium in Africa to make nuclear weapons and that's why America invaded Iraq, and Rove said, "Yes, I've heard that, too."

Rove has been accused of revealing the identity of a covert intelligence officer. This simply isn't true.

I happened to be in Rove's office when the phone rang. I was there on behalf of my publisher, to see if Rove knows enough to make him worth a $6 million advance on his memoirs. (Answer: Not really.)

He picked up the phone and the voice at the other end sounded like a rat trapped in a coffee can. "Novak," whispered Rove and he pretended to stick a finger down his throat. He listened for several minutes. "Yes, I've heard that, too," he said.

As he spoke to Novak, Rove wrote on a notepad, "Rosebud knows" - "Rosebud" being Vice President Dick Cheney's code name - and winked at me.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/20/opinion/edkiellor.php

[medeak]

1. that's mean! It's all satire you little stink! n/t

[King Coal]

2. Is that supposed to be funny?

[dooner]

3. It's a good sign when the story hits middle america,

regardless if you think Keillor is terribly funny or not. Garrison Keillor is no fan of Bush White House, and his message is heard by millions of straight-laced church-going midwesterners.

[PennyK]

4. Hilarious piece!

I love Garrison Keillor ("Home Grown Democrat"). This piece has everything in it...Whitewater, the UN, and a sneaky reference to Lynne Cheney's "proclivities"!

[electron_blue]

5. love it!

[Matilda]

6. Love this piece!

And it's no more nonsensical than some of the things coming out
of the White House on the subject.