Rove Decries ‘Nutty’ ‘Vitriolic’ Bloggers Who Spew ‘Bad Words’
Yesterday, ThinkProgress attended a Yahoo-sponsored Citizen 2.0 event in Washington, DC, at which Karl Rove discussed the intersection of politics and the Internet. Rove lamented the loss of civility in politics on the web, but then proceeded to use his speech as a partisan bashing of the netroots. According to Rove, bloggers are “nutty,” “vitriolic,” and “kooks.” The Washington Times reported on his remarks:
“The Web has given angry and vitriolic people more of a voice in publicdiscourse,” said Mr. Rove, who served as one of President Bush’s top strategists until he resigned this past summer, and is a noted technology nut.
“People in the past who have been on the nutty fringe of political life,who were more or less voiceless, have now been given an inexpensive and easily accessible soapbox, a blog,” Mr. Rove said during a speech about politics and the Web at the Willard InterContinental, a hotel just blocks from his former place of employment.
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What this means is that the left blogosphere, the netroots, scares the bejeezus out of Karl Rove and his Republican Party. Unlike the Rights online echo chambers, the netroots is made up of real live independent activists.
The Right has taken its marching orders from either Republican Headquarters or one of its religious demagogue allies.
There's nothing centralizes about the netroots, it's a movement, sprung from millions of disgruntled citizens turned activist. You can never tell what we might dig into or where we might pop up.
Rove's comments are just the latest in an ongoing whine and snivel-fest. The Rights dream of controlling the flow of information to Americans has been squashed like a bug on a windshield. The days when snotty Whitehouse aids can talk of creating their own reality are long gone. Tom DeLays 'permanent Republican majority' was just a mirage in the glare of the Texas sun.
All that's left for Karl Rove to do is complain about how F'ing awful we are.
Oh yeah, before Bill O' come shrieking by... an extra early merry xmas to you all.
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