Karl Rove Resigns
Karl Rove announced his resignation this morning.
Interesting - the timing (Bush and Congress on vacation, directly after Romney wins and Huckabee shakes up the Iowa straw poll). Not to mention it’s the middle of the night in America - NYT is listing the Reuters story as 13 minutes ago, meaning it was released at 5:15/4:15 Eastern/Central. That’s almost sure to be after front page call time for the East Coast papers.
Ah, WSJ got it at 4am - I’m sure it’ll make their front page. Wow. Go NewsCorp… Ha. Their last line of the story is this:
The Wall Street Journal published the interview Monday.
Yes, yes. You got the jump on the other papers.
What happens now with the Rove Congressional subpoena? What else could the timing mean? He says he’s going home to spend more time with family, but he’ll return to Texas at about the same time as his son goes back to college.
I’d keep my eyes peeled for some other story under the radar this week; the timing makes no sense. I’d assume that the WH would save Rove’s resignation to give the president a ratings bump amongst independents and liberals. I wonder if it’ll affect the markets. I will, however, be asleep so… oh well.
This works well for me; I’m going to be writing a paper on Rove’s communication style/strategies for one of my classes. I was thinking how hard it was going to be since he didn’t have a complete arc, but there it is. Thanks Karl.
Something strikes me as very suspicious here.
NYT feeding off Reuters feeding off WSJ
Also at BBC
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August 13th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
It’s the Bush White House, everything is suspicious.
August 14th, 2007 at 1:34 am
please, the rove as a genious meme gets more play on less results than anything in the bush admin. Sure he’s a liar, but is he smart? They are not smart, they are not even successful. He’s the “stragegist” behind the least popular president ever who lost two wars and barely won two elections. It’s almost like we don’t want to believe we elected some incompetant idiots because it makes us look bad, so, at least if they can be successfully sinister that’s somehow better.
The’re probably hoping he gets out of testifying by resigning, or mabey larry flint has his name on his list.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Um, Dan? I’m going to assume you wrote this tipsy given the time and number of spelling errors. Anyway, I don’t think there’s much arguing that a Rove resignation would be carefully timed - no matter your opinion of his ‘genius’, he’s a lightining rod for administration criticism. They’re going to be very careful with his exit.
Not to mention that you don’t give two weeks notice after being a presidental advisor for ten years. There’s a strategy at work here. It might be nothing more than to get the imminent financial collaspe of the US economy off the WSJ front page for a day in an attempt to save the market from itself today, but it’s still strategic.