How Karl Rove, Rich Lowry and Politico are damaging America

[UCmeNdc]

This is how it works. First Karl Rove bleats something about how Hillary Clinton was wearing sunglasses that only people with "traumatic brain injury" wear, and says she was in the hospital for a month when she most provably was not, and this is all such obvious bullshit that only a moron could possibly take it seriously, and then people like Rich Lowry, a man who decided Sarah Palin was vice-presidential material because She Winked At Me, write approving essays in the opinion pages called things like "Rove Is Right".

From Politico: "If we take Rove’s interview on Fox News the day after the Page Six item as the best explanation of his view, his basic points are unassailable — the state of Clinton’s health will play into her decision whether or not to run, she will have to be completely open about the 2012 episode and all of this will be filtered through the fact that she will be 69 if elected and 77 if she serves two terms."

So if we completely ignore the part where everything Karl Rove said was an outright lie—she was not in the hospital "30 days," she was not wearing sunglasses meant for "people who have traumatic brain injury" and prominent liar-for-cash Karl Rove either had to know both of those things himself or gets his news primarily from the voices in his own head—then Karl Rove's intended point is "unassailable" because Hillary Clinton is old. And it is the job of the professional damager of American discourse to studiously ignore the part where everything Karl Rove or some other titanic hack said was an outright lie, because that is how these things work. Let's ignore the part where he was promoting an outright lie; it feels like something that could be true, and so fellow professional liar Rich Lowry kicks the conspiracy can forward, just a little bit, in the supposedly serious pages of Politico.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/18/1299603/-How-Karl-Rove-Rich-Lowry-and-Politico-are-damaging-America?detail=email

[Blue Owl]

1. Karl Rove -- wasn't there some rumor about him being a child molester?

n/t

[villager]

3. Some say that he was.

I'm not sure who, though.

[GeorgeGist]

2. America's 'Greatest' President was brain damaged.

His name was Ronald Reagan.

[underpants]

4. The point of Politico from the beginning was to act as a conduit for Drudge to the MSM

It hasn't changed

[grasswire]

5. it's the same old Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

...the same people who dragged Hillary through dirt since her husband was POTUS. Disgusting.

[Beacool]

6. Exactly, nothing has changed.

The Clintons were reviled by Republicans from the minute they stepped into the WH. They were treated as hicks who had no business being there. They couldn't get over that a governor from a small Southern state had won over their establishment elite nominee. They set out to destroy them from day one. Thus the "RW conspiracy" was born.

The 90s gave birth to Rush Limbaugh, Drudge, Judicial Watch and many other people and organizations whose sole purpose was to take down the Clintons, both professionally and personally. Story after story was being churned by the machine, no subject was safe. They dwelt into the couple's marriage and even went far enough to accuse them of murder. Vince Foster was just one of their many "victims". The sad part is that so many people bought into their lies.

The machinery is still churning and see Hillary as a threat in 2016. Therefore, they are trying to either convince her not to run or at least tarnish her standing before she even announces her candidacy. That's why the endless Benghazi investigations, fake concerns about her health and even accusations that she's indirectly responsible for the kidnapping of the girls in Nigeria because she didn't declare Boko Haram a terrorist organization.

I think that, as in the 90s, the Right will overreach and their attacks will backfire.