
Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950 in Denver, Colorado) is an United States political consulting, and (as of 2005) U.S. President George W. Bush's senior advisor and chief political strategist. On February 8, 2005, Rove was appointed deputy chief of staff in charge of policy. After dropout of the University of Utah, Karl Rove began his political career with the College Republicans, which he chaired from 1973 to 1974. For the next few years, he worked in various United States Republican Party circles and assisted George H. W. Bush's 1980 vice-presidential campaign. In 1981, Rove founded direct mail consulting firm, Karl Rove & Co., based out of Austin, Texas. This firm's first clients included Republican Governor Bill Clements and United States Democratic Party Congressman Phil Gramm, who later became a Republican. In 1993, Rove began advising George W. Bush's gubernatorial campaign. He continued, however, to operate his consulting business until 1999, when he sold the firm to focus his efforts on Bush's bid for the presidency. After Bush became the 43rd president, Karl Rove became a Senior Advisor to the President. Rove is generally considered one of the most influential advisors in the Bush administration, and he has earned a reputation as an aggressive campaigner. ==Early life and political experiences== Rove was raised in Colorado and Nevada. His family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah when Rove was in high school. At Olympus High School, Rove began his involvement in politics in 1968: In a 2002 Deseret Times interview, Rove explained, "I was the Olympus High chairman for (former United States Senator) Wallace F. Bennett's re-election campaign, where he was opposed by the dynamic, young, aggressive political science professor at the University of Utah, J.D. Williams."[http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,450019080,00.html] Williams then took Rove under his wing, leading to Rove's internship with the Utah Republican Party. Rove is known for his unconventional political tactics of dirty tricks. In 1970, at the age of nineteen and while a protege of Donald Segretti (later convicted as a Watergate conspirator), Rove sneaked into the campaign office of Illinois Democrat Alan Dixon and stole some letterhead, which he used to print fake campaign rally fliers promising "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing," and distributed them at rock concerts and homeless shelters. Admitting to the incident much later, Rove said, "I was nineteen and I got involved in a political prank." ([http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010305&c=2&s=dubose The Nation]). Rove dropout of the University of Utah in 1971 to become the Executive Director of the College Republicans and held this position until 1972 when he became their National Chairman (1973-1974). As Chairman, Rove had access to many powerful politicians and government officials of the Republican party, and formed ties with George H. W. Bush, then Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1973-1974). ==Work for Bush family== For the next few years, he worked in various Republican circles and assisted George H. W. Bush's U.S. presidential election, 1980. Rove's greatest claim to fame at the time was that he had introduced Bush to Lee Atwater. A signature tactic of Rove was to attack an opponent on the opponent's strongest issue. In 1986, just before a crucial debate in the election for governor of Texas, Karl Rove announced that his office had been bugged by the Democratic Party (United States)s. There was no proof, and it was later alleged he had bugged his own phone for the media coverage that the incident generated, but there was no proof of that, either, and no charges were ever filed. [http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen1101.html] ==Consulting business and work in politics in 1990-2000== In 1993, according to the ''New York Times'', John Ashcroft's campaign paid Karl Rove & Co. over $300,000 to aid his (eventually successful) Senate race. In 1999, the George W. Bush campaign effort paid Karl Rove & Co. $2.5 million for July through December. According to Rove, "About 30 percent of that is postage." In early 2000, during the U.S. presidential primaries, 2000, Senator John McCain led George W. Bush in the race for the Republican presidential nomination and won several state primaries. A reporter named Wayne Slater alleged in print that Rove was behind a push poll and whisper campaign before the South Carolina primary, suggesting John McCain had fathered an illegitimate black child; Rove denied any involvement and no-one has produced evidence to substantiate this allegation.[http://www.uncorrelated.com/archives/2005/02/the_myth_makers.html] Bush went on to win South Carolina, the Republican nomination, and the presidency. After the presidential elections in November 2000, Karl Rove organized an emergency migration of Republican politicians and supporters to Florida to assist the Bush campaign during the recount. George W. Bush was inaugurated in January 2001. Rove accepted a position in the Bush administration as Senior Advisor to the President. The President's confidence in Rove is such that during a meeting with South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun on 14 May 2003, President George W. Bush brought only Rove and then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Other Republican politicians who have sought Rove's advice include Arnold Schwarzenegger, who met with Rove on 10 April 2003, to discuss whether the actor should run for Governor of California in 2006. ==Controversies== In March 2001, Rove met with executives from Intel, successfully advocating a merger between a Dutch company and an Intel company supplier. Rove owned $100,000 in Intel stock at the time. In June 2001, Rove met with two pharmaceutical industry lobbyists. At the time, Rove held almost $250,000 in drug industry stocks. On 30 June 2001, Rove divested his stocks in 23 companies, which included more than $100,000 in each Enron, Boeing, General Electric, and Pfizer. On 30 June 2001, the White House admitted that Rove was involved in administration energy policy meetings, while at the same time holding stock in energy companies including Enron. On 29 August 2003, retired ambassador Joseph C. Wilson alleged that Rove leaked the identity of his wife as a CIA operative. Wilson is a prominent journalist and Bush administration critic. The White House denied the allegation. See Valerie Plame. On Feb 19 2005, United States House of Representatives Maurice Hinchey echoed allegations made previously by others suggesting that the controversial Killian documents could have been planted by Rove, believing Dan Rather and CBS News would, during the U.S. presidential election, 2004, rush to report an anti-Bush story with unverified documents. [http://www.pressconnects.com/today/opinion/stories/op022705s151013.shtml], [http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040922-101433-4296r.htm] ==Trivia== * On 8 December 2004, Rove was named by Barbara Walters as the "Most Fascinating Person" of the year. * List_of_nicknames_used_by_George_W._Bush as "the Boy Genius", "Turd Blossom", as well as "The Architect". [http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,107219,00.html] The last term is a Masonic term for God, though it is not clear whether a reference to this is intended. * Karl Rove is known for his strong temper and use of profanity. A frequently cited example is (in response to Pat Robertson's remark that he had warned of the consequences of invading Iraq) "We will fuck him like he's never been fucked before." [http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2432] * Karl Rove is a Norwegian-American. According to Bob Woodward's recent book, Rove is obsessed with the "historical duplicity" of the Swedes, who Treaty of Kiel back in 1814. According to Woodward, this nationalism manifested itself as hatred for Swedish weapons inspector Hans Blix. [http://slate.msn.com/id/2099277] * Rove is also fascinated by Mark Hanna, President William McKinley's political adviser. * Karl Rove's reputation is such that, among both his supporters and critics (though more often among his detractors), the phrase "Rovian" has come to be used as a synonym for "Machiavellian". *The television show ''American Dad'' depicted Rove as a robe-clad, shadowy figure (not unlike The Emperor from the Star Wars films). Whenever his name is said a wolf howls (Just in the same way than Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein when Frau Blücher's name is said). When he entered a church, he began to emit smoke; when he later departed the scene, he transformed into a swarm of bats. ==Further reading== * Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush, Lou Dubose, Jan Reid and Carl Cannon, 2003, Paperback, 256 pages, ISBN 1586481924. * Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, James C. Moore and Wayne Slater, John Wiley and Sons, 2003, hardcover, 416 pages, ISBN 0471423270. **made into [http://www.bushsbrain.net a film of the same name] ==External links== *[http://www.pbs.org/frontline/shows/architect/ "Karl Rove The Architect"] documentary, ''PBS Frontline'', April 12, 2005 *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3987237.stm "Drawing up Blueprints for Bush Victory"] by Rachel Clarke, ''BBC'', November 6, 2004 *[http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200411/green "Karl Rove in a Corner"] by Joshua Green, ''Atlantic Monthly'', November 2004 * [http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/usa/karl-rove/ Karl Rove] - critical biography from Rotten.com *[http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Karl_Rove.php Newsmeat - campaign contributions made by Karl Rove] *[http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Karl_Rove Disinfopedia - Karl Rove] *[http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317836/us552286/us53358/us220517/us263940/us10159508/ LookSmart - Karl Rove] *[http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Executive_Branch/George_W__Bush_Administration/Rove__Karl___Senior_Advisor_to_the_President/ Yahoo! - Karl Rove] *[http://www.ilovekarlrove.com/ I Love Karl Rove - satirical site] U.S. Presidential advisors Political consultants 1950 births Norwegian-Americans Autodidacts
==NPOV== Wow. What an in-depth, intelligent, unbiased write-up of public enemy number one. Gratz to all you misologistic leftists. (FYI: you forgot to mention that Rove farted in 1993. He was holding several thousand shares of Gas-X at the time.) ''This article is incomplete without mention of Machiavelli, as Rove is invariably characterized as being "Machiavellian", and is well-known to hold Machiavelli's writings in high regard; "the Prince" is on his recommended reading list.'' First things firstly, facts cannot be copyrighted. We have a right to use facts wherever we find them. Second things secondly, this is http://WikiPedia.Org/ WikiPedia.Org not http://WikInfo.Org/ WikInfo.Org. Our articles are not suppose to be sympathetic. The article about George Walker Bush lists some not nice things about him and have both pro- and anti-Bush-links. Since Rove stole stationary from Dixon and printed fliers, we should state that. User:?alabio 00:20, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC) The text added by User:?alabio is not only poorly worded, and heavily biased, much of it is copied directly from the text and timeline at [http://rotten.com/library/bio/usa/karl-rove/ rotten.com] (hardly an authoritative source), which constitues a copyright violation. While I personally am no fan of Mr. Rove's actions and beliefs, these unsubstantiated claims are wholly innapropriate to this forum. I do encourage you to integrate into this article well written, verified accounts of Mr. Rove's actions. I am reverting this article once again. User:JMD 00:26, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC) :One cannot copyright facts. As for rotten.com, it is interestingly enough, fairly accurate. Rotten.Com has an advantage over most other sites in that it is not afraid to print controversial information. ¿Why do not you put in all of the proRove stuff you want and let me balance it? That is what happen in such articles like Electoral College. :One of the things that I would like to include is that Joseph Wilson accuses Rove of treason. It is true. you can run a search at http://News.Google.com/ GoogleNews if you do not believe me. Of course Rove is just the fallguy so that Bush will not Face charges of treason -- Bush is a fascist. :About Linking, if you go to the article about George W. Bush, you will see both pro- and anti-Bush-links. I do not see why I cannot add antiRove links while you add proRove links. :It is not like I redirected Karl Rove to Turdblossum -- [[George Walker Bush calls Karl Rove Turdblossum. User:?alabio 02:42, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC) ::Facts can't be copyrighted, but text can. In the U.S., all writing is automatically copyrighted by the author. If someone else writes something, you cannot lawfully copy that and post it on this site, regardless of whether it is true or not. ::You can of course state the facts in your own words. ::Second -- not everything posted on the Web is true. I don't doubt that rotten.com did hours of Googling in good faith to come up with this timeline, but I doubt they rigorously vetted every detail. I mean, it's not exactly the New York Times, is it? ::Er, okay, let me try again... Look at it from my point of view. I'm American, but politically neutral, and frankly I don't know much about Karl Rove (other than his mug shot looks like the mathematical ideal of a Republican). So I search WP and I read that Karl Rove sneaked into an opponent's office, stole stuff, then faked up a bunch of fliers bribing homeless people with free beer to vote for the opponent. ::Now that's a pretty extraordinary claim. I have no idea if it's true or not. As the reader I now have to decide whether to believe this statement. Well, here's how it looks to me: ::*I already think politicians are pretty sleazy, and political strategists doubly so. ::*But I also know that such a tactic would be a huge scandal, not to mention a crime, so if this really happened, why doesn't the article talk about the consequences for Rove? ::*The claim as it appears on WP isn't supported by a primary source or any source at all. ::*And by the way, any jerk with a computer can edit the page (not calling you a jerk -- just saying that the page is wide open). ::*Plus, the words "sleazy" and "cutthroat" tend to indicate a bias on the part of the author. No offense. ::Given all these details, I have to assume that it's false and somebody's pulling my chain. I mean, come on. ::So then the question is: ''if it's true, how can we help readers to believe it?'' ::I'm open to suggestions. I think it would be best to add references (to web sites or print articles), as that would lend credibility. ::I am going to delete all POV (like "sleazy") from this article as much as I can; maybe that will help a little too. ::--non-fascist-ically yours, User:Jorend 17:47, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC) ==Rotten.Com and Wikipedia== I've been tempted many times to add (reworded) comments to wiki articles from the Rotten.com library, as their facts are generally straight, and their political bias matches my own (meaning I don't see any bias at all ;). However, their opining doesn't belong in an encyclopedia article. With that in mind I'm adding a neutrally-worded link to the External Links section. That should be a fair compromise between no mention of Rotten material and the out-and-out plagiarisms of previousKarl Rove contribs.
Looking over the revision history I see the argument that if links to sites critical of Rove are added, so too should links to sites supportive of him be. The lack of Karl Rove fan sites to link to aside, this call for the ''simulation'' of neutrality is disingenuous on three counts:
* There has never been, nor will there ever be a single written word that does not express some bias. The appearance of neutrality in articles only means that the broadest of cultural norms have not been challenged. Those norms are still a POV.
* Wikipedia is not a closed, journalistic enterprise. Anyone with positive links for Karl is free to add them at any time.
* Balance in external links isn't a Wikipedia standard, or at least not a uniform one. I don't see any links favorable to Pol Pot in ''his'' article, for example.
I'm not going to try to justify my opinion of Rotten.com here. Suffice it to say, an argument can be made for their credibility equal in strength to an argument for the USA Today. --User:Clarknova 12:31, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
I'm as suspicious of Rove's underhand tactics as any sane person, but why is there a link to Rotten.com here? (anon-user)
:I hastily removed the rotten.com link as I didn't (and still don't) think it belongs here. My removal was quickly reverted and I now see that the link even has its own section here on the talk page. I should have read this section first.
:Anyway, I think the link hurt this article. It adds an extreme POV flair to the reference section that I believe we could be without. People will read the article and then see what we are referring to and get the impression that the article is written by Rove-opponents. That it's not a neutral article.
:The external link section is meant for readers wanting to learn more about a subject. And choosing what we link to is not something we should treat lightly. If an article links to references putting the subject in a purely negative light, then we should be very careful about using it without mentioning that it indeed is an article with an extreme POV. And a bio comparing Karl Rove with Heinrich Himmler is extreme POV. I don't agree with Clarknova saying (basically) that it's ok to add POV links since everyone is free to add links with the opposite view. This is a form of "I'll do the rebuttal edits, you supporters of him do the other view if you can" editing that I don't find honest. You know that your additions are one-sided and POV but find it ok since everyone else can add rebuttals. You are not editing with a Wikipedia:NPOV in mind if you do that.
:Oh, well. That's my opinion. I have now voiced it and I'll leave it at that. And for the record, I'm not a Bush or Rove fan at all (not that it should matter). I just find the inclusion of that link hurting the overall seriousity (hmm, that's not a word) of the article. User:Shanes 18:47, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
::I have been working to settle on a description of the link with Gamaliel. It has been rough going since the standard for inclusion or accurate description seems to fluctuate from topic to topic. As for the rotten.com link,
::"Portly, balding, malicious, simpering, he looks like a cross between Sesame Street's Mr. Hooper and the Third Reich's Heinrich Himmler. And he acts like a cross between Heinrich Himmler and Henry Kissinger. Whom he also looks like. And not in a good way. Oh yeah, he's a man who compromised national security, putting lives of American agents in danger. Wait, I forgot a word there. What was it? Oh, I remember! Allegedly."
::This can in no way be looked upon as a simple biography, and 'critical biography' lends it some sort of factual validity that it does not adhere to. It is an editorial and I use that term liberally. User:Plain regular ham 19:38, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
:::from Gamaliel..."a timeline and account of his life makes it a biography".
::::So, what can I say. Far be it from me to question the neutrality of admin. I will have to carry on with the standard spelled out by Gamaliel. If I can find a website that includes some semblance of Hillary Clinton's life (along with porn links), while calling her a dirty skank among other unnecessary insults, it will be entitled a biography. Gamaliel will certainly back me up. User:Plain regular ham 00:01, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
:::::I've just added a link to Hullary Clinton's rotten.com bio to her article. I look forward to your apology and a retraction of your comments. User:Gamaliel 16:00, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
==Question==
Hey, does anybody know if Rove has a family? User:Jengod 21:29, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
=="The historical duplicity of the Swedes"==
Is there any documentation for this bit in the Trivia section?
:''Karl Rove is a Norwegian-American. It has been suggested seriously that the White House's contempt for the (now vindicated) Swedish UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix was increased by Mr. Rove's assertions about the historical duplicity of the Swedes.''
User:Tregoweth 16:43, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
::I added that bit of trivia. I've heard it from several places, but an impeccable source for it is the book "Plan of Attack" by Bob Woodward. Go to http://slate.msn.com/id/2099277 and scroll down past the first ad, read the paragraph that starts with "page 250" (it's only two sentences long). User:BSveen 16:53, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
::: Please add your sources to the article or something. 'Some say' (-- Fox) is not an authentic source. Thank you.
::::I re-worded that bit of trivia and added a source; I hope this pleases everyone . User:BSveen 04:27, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
== On an Unseen Rove. ==
In the Time magazine issue Sept. 11 2002, pg.42-43:
there is a shot of Rove in, for us, an entirely uncharacteristic pose.
Usually, the "master-planner", here, utterly ''engrossed'' in the ghastly spectacle, that he is also partaking of, at least until the President's day outstrips him, leaving him in the dust, as is the experience for so many advisors at this level.
This entirely appropriate human response gives us a rare glimpse of,
for some, the top predator in DC., nearly lost.
--User:Scroll1 02:23, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
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Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950 in Denver, Colorado) is an United States political consulting, and (as of 2005) U.S. President George W. Bush's senior advisor and chief political strategist. On February 8, 2005, Rove was appointed deputy chief of staff in charge of policy. After dropout of the University of Utah, Karl Rove began his political career with the College Republicans, which he chaired from 1973 to 1974. For the next few years, he worked in various United States Republican Party circles and assisted George H. W. Bush's 1980 vice-presidential campaign. In 1981, Rove founded direct mail consulting firm, Karl Rove & Co., based out of Austin, Texas. This firm's first clients included Republican Governor Bill Clements and United States Democratic Party Congressman Phil Gramm, who later became a Republican. In 1993, Rove began advising George W. Bush's gubernatorial campaign. He continued, however, to operate his consulting business until 1999, when he sold the firm to focus his efforts on Bush's bid for the presidency. After Bush became the 43rd president, Karl Rove became a Senior Advisor to the President. Rove is generally considered one of the most influential advisors in the Bush administration, and he has earned a reputation as an aggressive campaigner. ==Early life and political experiences== Rove was raised in Colorado and Nevada. His family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah when Rove was in high school. At Olympus High School, Rove began his involvement in politics in 1968: In a 2002 Deseret Times interview, Rove explained, "I was the Olympus High chairman for (former United States Senator) Wallace F. Bennett's re-election campaign, where he was opposed by the dynamic, young, aggressive political science professor at the University of Utah, J.D. Williams."[http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,450019080,00.html] Williams then took Rove under his wing, leading to Rove's internship with the Utah Republican Party. Rove is known for his unconventional political tactics of dirty tricks. In 1970, at the age of nineteen and while a protege of Donald Segretti (later convicted as a Watergate conspirator), Rove sneaked into the campaign office of Illinois Democrat Alan Dixon and stole some letterhead, which he used to print fake campaign rally fliers promising "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing," and distributed them at rock concerts and homeless shelters. Admitting to the incident much later, Rove said, "I was nineteen and I got involved in a political prank." ([http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010305&c=2&s=dubose The Nation]). Rove dropout of the University of Utah in 1971 to become the Executive Director of the College Republicans and held this position until 1972 when he became their National Chairman (1973-1974). As Chairman, Rove had access to many powerful politicians and government officials of the Republican party, and formed ties with George H. W. Bush, then Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1973-1974). ==Work for Bush family== For the next few years, he worked in various Republican circles and assisted George H. W. Bush's U.S. presidential election, 1980. Rove's greatest claim to fame at the time was that he had introduced Bush to Lee Atwater. A signature tactic of Rove was to attack an opponent on the opponent's strongest issue. In 1986, just before a crucial debate in the election for governor of Texas, Karl Rove announced that his office had been bugged by the Democratic Party (United States)s. There was no proof, and it was later alleged he had bugged his own phone for the media coverage that the incident generated, but there was no proof of that, either, and no charges were ever filed. [http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen1101.html] ==Consulting business and work in politics in 1990-2000== In 1993, according to the ''New York Times'', John Ashcroft's campaign paid Karl Rove & Co. over $300,000 to aid his (eventually successful) Senate race. In 1999, the George W. Bush campaign effort paid Karl Rove & Co. $2.5 million for July through December. According to Rove, "About 30 percent of that is postage." In early 2000, during the U.S. presidential primaries, 2000, Senator John McCain led George W. Bush in the race for the Republican presidential nomination and won several state primaries. A reporter named Wayne Slater alleged in print that Rove was behind a push poll and whisper campaign before the South Carolina primary, suggesting John McCain had fathered an illegitimate black child; Rove denied any involvement and no-one has produced evidence to substantiate this allegation.[http://www.uncorrelated.com/archives/2005/02/the_myth_makers.html] Bush went on to win South Carolina, the Republican nomination, and the presidency. After the presidential elections in November 2000, Karl Rove organized an emergency migration of Republican politicians and supporters to Florida to assist the Bush campaign during the recount. George W. Bush was inaugurated in January 2001. Rove accepted a position in the Bush administration as Senior Advisor to the President. The President's confidence in Rove is such that during a meeting with South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun on 14 May 2003, President George W. Bush brought only Rove and then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Other Republican politicians who have sought Rove's advice include Arnold Schwarzenegger, who met with Rove on 10 April 2003, to discuss whether the actor should run for Governor of California in 2006. ==Controversies== In March 2001, Rove met with executives from Intel, successfully advocating a merger between a Dutch company and an Intel company supplier. Rove owned $100,000 in Intel stock at the time. In June 2001, Rove met with two pharmaceutical industry lobbyists. At the time, Rove held almost $250,000 in drug industry stocks. On 30 June 2001, Rove divested his stocks in 23 companies, which included more than $100,000 in each Enron, Boeing, General Electric, and Pfizer. On 30 June 2001, the White House admitted that Rove was involved in administration energy policy meetings, while at the same time holding stock in energy companies including Enron. On 29 August 2003, retired ambassador Joseph C. Wilson alleged that Rove leaked the identity of his wife as a CIA operative. Wilson is a prominent journalist and Bush administration critic. The White House denied the allegation. See Valerie Plame. On Feb 19 2005, United States House of Representatives Maurice Hinchey echoed allegations made previously by others suggesting that the controversial Killian documents could have been planted by Rove, believing Dan Rather and CBS News would, during the U.S. presidential election, 2004, rush to report an anti-Bush story with unverified documents. [http://www.pressconnects.com/today/opinion/stories/op022705s151013.shtml], [http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040922-101433-4296r.htm] ==Trivia== * On 8 December 2004, Rove was named by Barbara Walters as the "Most Fascinating Person" of the year. * List_of_nicknames_used_by_George_W._Bush as "the Boy Genius", "Turd Blossom", as well as "The Architect". [http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,107219,00.html] The last term is a Masonic term for God, though it is not clear whether a reference to this is intended. * Karl Rove is known for his strong temper and use of profanity. A frequently cited example is (in response to Pat Robertson's remark that he had warned of the consequences of invading Iraq) "We will fuck him like he's never been fucked before." [http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2432] * Karl Rove is a Norwegian-American. According to Bob Woodward's recent book, Rove is obsessed with the "historical duplicity" of the Swedes, who Treaty of Kiel back in 1814. According to Woodward, this nationalism manifested itself as hatred for Swedish weapons inspector Hans Blix. [http://slate.msn.com/id/2099277] * Rove is also fascinated by Mark Hanna, President William McKinley's political adviser. * Karl Rove's reputation is such that, among both his supporters and critics (though more often among his detractors), the phrase "Rovian" has come to be used as a synonym for "Machiavellian". *The television show ''American Dad'' depicted Rove as a robe-clad, shadowy figure (not unlike The Emperor from the Star Wars films). Whenever his name is said a wolf howls (Just in the same way than Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein when Frau Blücher's name is said). When he entered a church, he began to emit smoke; when he later departed the scene, he transformed into a swarm of bats. ==Further reading== * Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush, Lou Dubose, Jan Reid and Carl Cannon, 2003, Paperback, 256 pages, ISBN 1586481924. * Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, James C. Moore and Wayne Slater, John Wiley and Sons, 2003, hardcover, 416 pages, ISBN 0471423270. **made into [http://www.bushsbrain.net a film of the same name] ==External links== *[http://www.pbs.org/frontline/shows/architect/ "Karl Rove The Architect"] documentary, ''PBS Frontline'', April 12, 2005 *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3987237.stm "Drawing up Blueprints for Bush Victory"] by Rachel Clarke, ''BBC'', November 6, 2004 *[http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200411/green "Karl Rove in a Corner"] by Joshua Green, ''Atlantic Monthly'', November 2004 * [http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/usa/karl-rove/ Karl Rove] - critical biography from Rotten.com *[http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Karl_Rove.php Newsmeat - campaign contributions made by Karl Rove] *[http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Karl_Rove Disinfopedia - Karl Rove] *[http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317836/us552286/us53358/us220517/us263940/us10159508/ LookSmart - Karl Rove] *[http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Executive_Branch/George_W__Bush_Administration/Rove__Karl___Senior_Advisor_to_the_President/ Yahoo! - Karl Rove] *[http://www.ilovekarlrove.com/ I Love Karl Rove - satirical site] U.S. Presidential advisors Political consultants 1950 births Norwegian-Americans Autodidacts
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==NPOV== Wow. What an in-depth, intelligent, unbiased write-up of public enemy number one. Gratz to all you misologistic leftists. (FYI: you forgot to mention that Rove farted in 1993. He was holding several thousand shares of Gas-X at the time.) ''This article is incomplete without mention of Machiavelli, as Rove is invariably characterized as being "Machiavellian", and is well-known to hold Machiavelli's writings in high regard; "the Prince" is on his recommended reading list.'' First things firstly, facts cannot be copyrighted. We have a right to use facts wherever we find them. Second things secondly, this is http://WikiPedia.Org/ WikiPedia.Org not http://WikInfo.Org/ WikInfo.Org. Our articles are not suppose to be sympathetic. The article about George Walker Bush lists some not nice things about him and have both pro- and anti-Bush-links. Since Rove stole stationary from Dixon and printed fliers, we should state that. User:?alabio 00:20, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC) The text added by User:?alabio is not only poorly worded, and heavily biased, much of it is copied directly from the text and timeline at [http://rotten.com/library/bio/usa/karl-rove/ rotten.com] (hardly an authoritative source), which constitues a copyright violation. While I personally am no fan of Mr. Rove's actions and beliefs, these unsubstantiated claims are wholly innapropriate to this forum. I do encourage you to integrate into this article well written, verified accounts of Mr. Rove's actions. I am reverting this article once again. User:JMD 00:26, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC) :One cannot copyright facts. As for rotten.com, it is interestingly enough, fairly accurate. Rotten.Com has an advantage over most other sites in that it is not afraid to print controversial information. ¿Why do not you put in all of the proRove stuff you want and let me balance it? That is what happen in such articles like Electoral College. :One of the things that I would like to include is that Joseph Wilson accuses Rove of treason. It is true. you can run a search at http://News.Google.com/ GoogleNews if you do not believe me. Of course Rove is just the fallguy so that Bush will not Face charges of treason -- Bush is a fascist. :About Linking, if you go to the article about George W. Bush, you will see both pro- and anti-Bush-links. I do not see why I cannot add antiRove links while you add proRove links. :It is not like I redirected Karl Rove to Turdblossum -- [[George Walker Bush calls Karl Rove Turdblossum. User:?alabio 02:42, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC) ::Facts can't be copyrighted, but text can. In the U.S., all writing is automatically copyrighted by the author. If someone else writes something, you cannot lawfully copy that and post it on this site, regardless of whether it is true or not. ::You can of course state the facts in your own words. ::Second -- not everything posted on the Web is true. I don't doubt that rotten.com did hours of Googling in good faith to come up with this timeline, but I doubt they rigorously vetted every detail. I mean, it's not exactly the New York Times, is it? ::Er, okay, let me try again... Look at it from my point of view. I'm American, but politically neutral, and frankly I don't know much about Karl Rove (other than his mug shot looks like the mathematical ideal of a Republican). So I search WP and I read that Karl Rove sneaked into an opponent's office, stole stuff, then faked up a bunch of fliers bribing homeless people with free beer to vote for the opponent. ::Now that's a pretty extraordinary claim. I have no idea if it's true or not. As the reader I now have to decide whether to believe this statement. Well, here's how it looks to me: ::*I already think politicians are pretty sleazy, and political strategists doubly so. ::*But I also know that such a tactic would be a huge scandal, not to mention a crime, so if this really happened, why doesn't the article talk about the consequences for Rove? ::*The claim as it appears on WP isn't supported by a primary source or any source at all. ::*And by the way, any jerk with a computer can edit the page (not calling you a jerk -- just saying that the page is wide open). ::*Plus, the words "sleazy" and "cutthroat" tend to indicate a bias on the part of the author. No offense. ::Given all these details, I have to assume that it's false and somebody's pulling my chain. I mean, come on. ::So then the question is: ''if it's true, how can we help readers to believe it?'' ::I'm open to suggestions. I think it would be best to add references (to web sites or print articles), as that would lend credibility. ::I am going to delete all POV (like "sleazy") from this article as much as I can; maybe that will help a little too. ::--non-fascist-ically yours, User:Jorend 17:47, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC) ==Rotten.Com and Wikipedia== I've been tempted many times to add (reworded) comments to wiki articles from the Rotten.com library, as their facts are generally straight, and their political bias matches my own (meaning I don't see any bias at all ;). However, their opining doesn't belong in an encyclopedia article. With that in mind I'm adding a neutrally-worded link to the External Links section. That should be a fair compromise between no mention of Rotten material and the out-and-out plagiarisms of previous
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