Rove kisses Bush's ass on Limbaugh

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In case you give a shit, Rush Limbaugh interviewed Karl Rove on August 15. The interview consisted of Rove puckering up his pretty little lips to kiss Bush’s ass. In one part of the interview Rove bragged about being in an ongoing book reading contest with Bush:

… we’ve had a great contest. It’s been a great experience the last year and a half. We’ve been trading book suggestions back and forth.

… I beat him last year, 110 to 94, and I’m ahead this year. I won’t give you the total because it would crush you, and again he keeps saying, “Look, I’m the leader of the Free World, but, you know, I won the first year.” In fact, it was almost … It was very funny.

Yes, funny indeed. Moving on.

During the interview, Karl also tried to paint his hero as a normal guy who the “elite, effete snobs … can’t hold a candle” to:

Well, I shelve that [the attacks on President Bush as brain dead or a frat boy], but I have to admit I’m amused by it because, you know, this is one of the best-read people I’ve ever met. This is a Harvard MBA. This is a Yale undergraduate whose major was history and whose passion is history [apparently not the history of Iraq or the Middle East]. Many times the people I see criticizing him are, you know, sort of elite, effete snobs who can’t hold a candle to this guy. What they don’t like about him is that he is common sense, that he is Middle America.

So let me get this straight. Bush is a well read, Yale and Harvard graduate who represents Middle America? Perhaps we should look at some photo evidence of his not-so-Middle-Americaness:

bush on a boat

This is Bush and Daddy Bush cruising on the family fishing boat in Kennebunkport, Maine, — where his family “summers”. Bush is slated to break Reagan’s record for the most vacation days taken during a presidency. Reagan took 436 while Bush is currently at 418. Bush has taken one year and two months of vacation during his presidency! What normal Middle American takes off that much time in 8 years of work? I don’t know of any.

For the record, Clinton only took 152 days during his two terms.

bush in a tux

At this white tie fund raising event, Bush quipped:

This is an impressive crowd — the haves and the have mores. Some people call you the elite — I call you my base

Watch the video.

To summarize, Bush’s base is “the elite”, yet “he is Middle America”? I’m having problems wrapping my head around this one Karl.

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