This is pretty stupid on Rove's part...you don't really have anything to gain out of a lie like this, but you have plenty to lose if people find out. I guess habits are hard to break, aren't they? Well...even readers of Time are finding out about this (albeit on the last page)...
From the latest issue of TIME (Aug. 9) in the last part of the article "Just Label Us Skeptical" by Bruce McCall...
" Governor Bush's brother George W. faced serious credibility issues when it was disclosed that the animal he had described as his and wife Laura's new cat is actually a dog. Insiders claim that the President's mislabeling of his pet was the handiwork of White House political guru Karl Rove. With America's population of cat owners far exceeding that of dog owners, Rove is said to have advocated the nomenclatural switch as a slam-dunk means of expanding Bush's national support base in an election year. The President's insistence on patting his golden retriever and calling him a Siamese during a recent Larry King Live had alarmed even Republicans, but the revelation that it was "just election-year politics" has allowed Washington to breathe a sigh of relief. "I'm satisfied that the matter is neither unfair nor dangerous," pronounced former House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, shortly before addressing the annual convention of the American Kennel Club on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's love of dogs. "
------------
NOTE (added 9:30 PM PDT)--I NOW see that this is satire--at first, I was too excited thinking otherwise that I was blinded! Just think--something as harmless as lying about the family pet to bring the Pres down further (versus the truly harmful things out there that are bringing him down--or might I say "self-inflicted" stuff). But, it still brings a good laugh...something that we need once in awhile!