America, "Watching TV with the sound turned down."

[billbuckhead]

A scary, but revealing interview with a skilled and knowledgeable Rove watcher.

"A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
With James Moore, Co-Author (with Wayne Slater) of "Bush's Brain"

Some readers have e-mailed us asking why BuzzFlash is offering a book about Karl Rove as a premium. Our answer is simple: know your enemy. Rove may be evil, but he is an evil genius. Freedom loving Americans ignore him at their peril. Rove never graduated from a college, but he is a masterful three-dimensional chess player, albeit working for the forces of radical extremism. Rove runs circles around the Democratic leadership. He's a bear hunter who knows how to bait and trap with the best of them.

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"He once told a consultant that we interviewed for "Bush's Brain" that you should run every political campaign as though people are watching television with the sound turned down. And toward that end, you rely heavily on imagery and not very much on substance, knowing that if the President is photographed in a school of minority and ethnic children, and is interested in their future in that particular photo op, that people will trust that image. And they don't go beyond that image to look at his policy, which is signing the "Leave No Child Behind Act" in a big, high-profile moment with Senator Ted Kennedy, and then gutting the heart out of that bill with the funding that he offers up for it. "Who is Bush's Brain? Karl Rove is, according to a New Book Chronicling the Political Life of the Machiavelli Behind the Throne of King George"

<http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/06/02_moore.html>
They say true evil is very banal. KKKarl Rove could well be the icon for this concept.

[gristy]

1. that 2nd paragraph does explain a few things

They don't much CARE what he says. And they believe it doesn't much MATTER what he says. Just so long as the imagery is there, along with a few "bring 'em on"s.

My hope is that they have overstepped. That they have sufficiently underestimated the intelligence of those swing voters which they need. And that they have sufficiently insulted the intelligence of some republican faithful.

It is no surprise to me that Bush is the non-education president, pro-voucher and all that. He would just as soon that the democratic masses be as dumb as possible (though not as dumb as he is, since that would be impossible...). And that the rich republican masses be indoctrinated from an early age in their private pro-war/anti-evolution/pro-christian schools.

The pro-voucher sect drives me crazy.