YouTube is a real son of a gun, and now that everything NOW has been archived, everything in the PAST is now being slowly entered. It is going to get harder and harder for the hidden hand to stay, well, hidden. Here is an oldie, but a goodie, talking about the dawn of the modern political era with the Re-elect Nixon campaign.
On display are state of the art IBM "computers", automated envelope openers and some of the first phone banks. That part of the video should be worth a watch alone for political junkies, but the sweetness is at the end. At around 3:45 in this video, the MSM, before it became the shatter shell of sick sad sitcom of today, goes into Nixon's dirty political tricks division. Gee, I thought, who is running this? Hunt? Liddy? Lucifer? Actually, it is a very young and spry KARL ROVE.
No shit, Karl Rove worked as Nixon's dirty political tricks point man? Wow, makes sense, but I just can't believe he was evil even in his 20s. Proof in the pudding:
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Sorry if this is old hat around here, but it was news to me since I wasn't around in 1972. Here is a picture of Karl Rove, so young, so sauve in his suit, with so much hair:
He sounds kind of like Deputy Dog, which works on many levels for me. Glad to see he was being trained in dirty tricks by Tricky Dick himself, here is some of his early propaganda:
That is historically funny as shit. Here is a dude, Karl, who is using the Democratic Party's war (thanks LBJ!) against them in a petty slogan. Besides the fact he would later use propaganda to start a war, not peace, this shows he once had a knack for meme building off acronyms. To bad he lost his touch when he coined Operation Iraq Liberation (OIL). But that was so many scandals ago history probaly won't remember it.
But it will remember this:
This is the mouth of babel, a mouthpiece even Machiavelli would be proud of. What happened to that head of hair? And love, LOVE, the mutton chops on the side. Maybe that is why Karl Rove went so evil, from Elite Intellectual Playboy in the 70s to Big Baby Fetus Head of today. That kind of evil could warp a man. And I guess it did, but still, he did work for Nixon. So maybe instead of his soul, Rove traded in his locks for political locks.