WITHERING HEIGHTS #4: KARL ROVE

Bob Hope and Karl Rove

I am presented with a small problem on how exactly to insult Karl Rove, because of that particular class of clove-pitted Georgia ham ugly people - say Noriega or Tom Delay -that actually deserve to look as repulsive as they do, he's one I cannot bear to actually look at. So I was having trouble deciding what image to post in reference - someone antithetical, someone close?


Not Karl Rove* Not Karl Rove*

Some possibilities.

Finally I settled naturally enough on Ethel Merman.



Karl Rove, Singing Like A Muscians' Union Canary

The parallels are as obvious as the contrasts- Ethel Merman was a very loud singer, but clearly not a traitor to the United States for the narrow interests of a dangerous, dissembling, self-serving and kleptocratic political faction, nor a builder of institutional proto-fascism, nor the instigator of a crude cunning politics that might make the planet Earth uninhabitable.

*NOTE: Although often confused with but not Karl Rove, both Gothmog and Britney Spears are on the Short List of Supreme Court Nominations. Yet it is true that Gothmog and Rove have never been seen in the same room at the same time.