Friday, December 18, 2009

Karl Rove, Bush's Strategist, to Speak Here in January

Posted by Jackson Baker on Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:12 PM

Karl Rove
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Karl Rove, who was former president George W. Bush‘s political strategist for decades, including eight years in the White House, will make his second appearance before a Tennessee audience in two years, and this appearance, on January 20 at Rhodes College, will apparently be a closed affair like the previous one — Rove’s 2008 keynote address at the state Republican Party’s annual “Statesmen’s Dinner” in Nashville.

The exclusiveness of that earlier address to the party faithful, explicitly closed to the media, aroused protests — some of it from Republican Party elders themselves.

The announcement from Rhodes has this to say:

“…The lecture, presented by the Rhodes College Lecture Board and Young America's Foundation, is open only to the Rhodes community and begins at 8 p.m. in the McCallum Ballroom.

>“Seating is by ticket, and in early January, students, faculty and staff will be notified where to pick up tickets. Tickets also will be available for purchase by alumni….”

Rove's appearance will precede by a little over a month an address by current national Republican chairman Michael Steele at the local GOP's annual Lincoln Day Dinner in March.

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Well, it could be worse, George Bush or Dick Cheney.

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Posted by mayfield on 12/18/2009 at 6:32 PM

that is about as discusting and tastless as all the rest of tose trators like bush and chenny, why do people not see that they did nothing but bleed our country white while they were in power???????

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Posted by truth seeker on 12/18/2009 at 6:50 PM

Crap. He'll be a little late to play the role of Mr. Potter in my little production of "It's A Wonderful Life" at Our Lady Of Perpetual Deception.

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Posted by Phlo on 12/18/2009 at 7:25 PM

Looks like Rhodes is runnin scared if they are keeping everything secret. Are they afraid Rove might get a few rotten tomatoes thrown his way if they let the cat out of the bag of his whereabouts? Pussies.

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Posted by rantboy on 12/19/2009 at 2:18 PM

Heard TN is hosting the first Teabag Nation soiree. When/where? I want to get my piece ready so I can strut around with it like the baggers did back in August at the Obama rallies and claim it's my Second Amendment rights to wave it around amongst the Teabaggers. It's all good.

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Posted by rantboy on 12/19/2009 at 2:24 PM

If the Health Reform bill passes, and it looks as though it will, where will all the die-hard Republicans emigrate?

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Posted by mayfield on 12/19/2009 at 8:02 PM

I see that intelligence is not a requirement to post a comment here. Keep your heads in the sand, morons.

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Posted by enlightened_1 on 12/19/2009 at 8:19 PM

"I see that intelligence is not a requirement to post a comment here" and you just proved it, congrats, neo-con scumbag.

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Posted by Packrat on 12/20/2009 at 9:13 AM

Yawn

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Posted by mad_merc on 12/20/2009 at 10:36 AM

"apparently be a closed affair "

the idiot echo chamber works best this way

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Posted by wvfii on 12/20/2009 at 1:42 PM

Liberal blood sucker

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Posted by enlightened_1 on 12/20/2009 at 7:12 PM

Go hang out in public bathroom stall with all your other con slimeballs.

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Posted by Packrat on 12/21/2009 at 8:34 AM

Uh-oh, looks like it's time for...Holiday Karaoke!! I'll go first..."In the meadow we can build a snowman, Then pretend that he is Parson Brown..."

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Posted by Phlo on 12/21/2009 at 9:14 AM

The talk given by Charlaine Harris (at Rhodes) was also a "closed affair". It has nothing to do with secrecy.

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Posted by Erica on 01/20/2010 at 5:23 PM
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