Rove's Brain and Media Manipulation
I just saw a horror movie -- Bush's Brain -- the new documentary based on a book with the same name by journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater. The book's subtitle is How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential. I'll spare you the grim details. What matters most now is that Rove's long record of shady and vicious media operations is not just in the past. Rove is more than a master manipulator of the news media. He's a stealthy smear artist who does whatever he can get away with. And Rove has gotten away with plenty. That's how George W. Bush became governor of Texas ... and president of the United States. What remains to be seen is whether Rove's techniques will again prove successful when this country votes on Nov. 2. [
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