Portland photographer physically removed from Rove event [View All]

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http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3323/8836/

It's hard to say what Karl Rove was thinking visiting Tigard last week.

The senior Bush adviser wasn't taking reporters' questions after a 40-minute talk in which he failed to offer support for one of the state's most endangered Republicans, U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith.

Instead, Rove told the crowd that terrorists want to turn our cities into "rivers of blood." He spoofed his recent rapping turn at last month's Washington Correspondents' dinner. And he announced he has an Aunt Sally in the Portland area, remembering fondly a childhood summer spent in Oregon—"We had a giant above-ground pool, and I had three girl cousins."

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If Rove came for good press, he failed on that note, too. Rove took no questions from journalists, who were corralled behind a rope in the back of the room. And a WW photographer who tried to mill with the crowd was physically removed to the back by GOP spokesman Shawn Cleave, who threatened to ban WW from future Republican events. So much for PR.