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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (42611)	4/14/2004 5:37:32 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 89467

HILARIOUS JIM HIGHTOWER SEGMENT ON THE POMPOSITY OF KARL ROVE jimhightower.com Real Audio: stream.realimpact.net Transcript: jimhightower.com DEMOCRACY VISITS KARL 4/13/2004 Poor Karl. He's had a bad few weeks and... well, Karl is cranky. Karl Rove, I'm talking about, George W's Machiavellian-Svengalian political operative who specializes in personal-attack hatchet jobs on his client's political enemies. Mudslinging is not enough for Rove – he tries to slime those he goes after. Nice is not in his vocabulary... or character. But one of the people Karl has been trying to slime in recent days is Richard Clarke, the counter-terrorism expert who has blown the whistle on our toy-soldier "war president" – and the slime is not sticking. In fact, it's Karl and his client-in-chief who have ended up with slime blowback all over them. So Rove was already in a foul funk when, on an otherwise serene Sunday afternoon in his swank Washington neighborhood, several hundred protesters suddenly showed up on his lawn. These were low-income folks from the Midwest who had come to their nation's Capitol to be heard on a bill that would provide educational opportunities for their children – a bill that Rove was keeping bottled up. They had requested a meeting, but he refused even to reply, so – they came to him for a surprise Sunday session, chanting "Karl, Karl, come on out! See what the DREAM Act is all about!" This threw Karl into a hissy fit. "Get off my property," shouted the public servant to the public. The crowd shouted back in unison, "Karl Rove ain't got no soul." They waved signs at him through his locked windows as he summoned the Secret Service to "save" him from his public. Finally, he agreed to meet with two of the protesters if all the rest left. They did – and Karl opened his garage door for a two-minute "meeting" during which he mostly screamed at them, closing it off with "Don't ever dare to come back!" Yeah, Karl, what do those people think this is... a democracy? If you want to meet with Karl, make a campaign contribution and hire a corporate lobbyist, like everyone else he knows. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Demonstrators Swarm Around Rove's Home," Washington Post, March 29, 2004.