I guess the Rove stuff is cutting a little close to the bone. Bush is going to announce his nominee tonight. Even though it appeared a couple of weeks ago that he was going to wait until late in the cycle to avoid putting the nominee through an extended media vetting. The diversion seems to be working. No sign of Rove on CNN, Fox, ABC, CBS or NBC. So it seems to be working.
Actually, I lied. There is one mention on Fox. O'Reilly's Talking Points, where he follows the grand old GOP tradition of blaming Clinton:
"During the Clinton years, there was a guy in the White House named Sidney Blumenthal, whose primary job was to throw dirt on anyone who criticized his boss. Blumenthal was a notorious hatchet man."
When in doubt, blame Clinton. Buh, buh, Clinton did that too... Yeah, right.
What I always find amusing about O'Reilly is how, it's all about him, or his alter egos. In this case he always references the "Talking Points" in the "Talking Points", and references it in the third person:
"From the get go, "Talking Points" has said ..."
Is "Talking Points" a person? A guy in a big stuffed clipboard suit walking around with checkboxes written on his chest? "Hey! Talking Points! I wanna talk to you!"
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