I watched Howard Dean (my man!) on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight.
Nice tie, Howard!
I truly believe that Dean is using every barrier-bashing tactic, every inflammatory sound stunt he can muster, and each tiny or big bit of truth that bites the bones of the political situation in Washington to drag Karl Rove out into the light of day where we can see him for what he is and begin to dismantle the hearty myth that he is some sort of logistical and strategic genius and Bush puppetmaster.
Dean is uncovering the understructure of the GOP propaganda machine with his blatant regard for the truth. My TV bulges with the nearly forgotten pleasure it feels at transmitting non-garbage through its tiny speakers.
And because Dean is telegraphing the truth and is as pleased as punch to do so, his doppelganger, Karl Rove, is beginning to seem like the Wizard in Oz - The people are starting to see and hear that there's no heaving giant stud-muffin with a big, bad security stick at the top of the perch in Washington, but instead there stands (behind the stars and striped curtain) simply a dumb guy in a rodeo-show hat and dance floor boots being spoon-fed soundbites by a rather pudgy, flaccid, pale and wispy-haired phone jockey and amateur bully.
Because what I'm hearing, friends, is Karl Rove now trying to out-Dean Dean, with his high-pitched liberal bashing and his inflammatory speechifying to his conservative friends over tuna flambe or beef tacos or whatever the hell it is that the GOP really eats when it's alone with itself.
Eat up, boys!