Hold still...Can you feel it? The O'Conner resignation is sucking the air out of the media. Despite the fact that we have no nominee, and won't for more than a week, we will be subject to a torrent of
expert prognastications from the same kind of folks that assurred us that Michael Jackson would definitely be convicted. The press cannot walk with any other issue while it is chewing on the SCOTUS gum. Meanwhile, a week ago, Karl Rove insulted millions of Americans and he is being given a pass for his affront. Well I think its time we toughen up and stop letting crap like this go by.
It doesn't matter if you're Liberal or not, White House advisors must not be permitted to disparage broad swaths of the American people with impunity. It is simply unacceptable and he can't be allowed to get away with it. Senator Durbin was hounded until he felt compelled to apologize for making a statement that was substantively correct. Why the fuck have we stopped hounding Rove?
Here's something you can do...
I created the graphic above and have made it available as an e-card that you can send to your friends, relatives, co-workers, press, or anyone else you can think of. Just click on it, or click on this
Karl Rove Must Apologize! link. Select the
Rove Must Apologize e-card and send it off. Add that link to your sig. Steal the graphic for your own site, or for flyers or stickers. Put the viral nature of the Internet to work. But, for God's sake, don't let this fade away.
It makes me want to wretch that the media has dropped this story after so mercilessly pounding Durbin. I don't think Durbin should have apologized, but when he did, it was emotional and sincere. All we got from Rove was brushed-off. Are we going to be satisfied with Rove's arrogance? We have to go after this jerk and we have to be relentless about it. If we can't squeeze an apology out of this obvious offense, what battle can we hope to win? We have to make him answer these questions:
Which of these people are Liberals who only want to understand our enemies?
Which of these people want to put soldiers in greater danger?
Which of these people failed to understand the enemy, actually put our soldiers in harms way, and lied to the American people, and the world, in order to do it?
This is not the time to reaffirm the right's impression of us as wimps. We have to push Rove until he bends, or better yet, breaks. This is not about a petty political triumph. This about standing up for the honor of millions of people who love their country, who have sufferred and sacrificed for it, and who have been ruthlessly maligned by one of the most corrupt and repulsive figures in American public life.
Don't let him walk away from this. Karl Rove Must Apologize!.