Remember last week when the bad news came out about Pakistan giving the Taliban a free pass, and then suddenly the president shows up in the middle of the afternoon for a press conference about moving prisoners from those secret CIA prisons to Gitmo?
And then Ney pleds guilty and the president magically appears for a press conference on a rainy Washington Afternoon in the Rose Garden...
We need to start cataloging the Rove tricks
And let's do so in comments. Let's get a list of the repeated techniques he uses over and over again. He's an admitted agnostic and pulls the religion card like he's born again, his stepfather was gay and he pulls the gay marriage card like a member of the Westboro Baptist Church...there is a playbook people, we need to write it down.
Just like Jon Stewart exposed the truth behind the cavuto question mark, we need to take a hard look at defining the Rove playbook. So add your favorite plays in comments, I'll start us off.
1. "Hey, that is bad news for us on the news last night... hey look the President is in the Rose Garden!"
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2. (by lgmcp) When in doubt, catch Al-Quaida's #2