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Coming soon: Rove, Abramoff & someone gay

Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 03:44:29 PM PDT

The authors of Bush's Brain have written a sequel due out Sept. 5, The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power. One of them, James Moore, has a column at Huffington Post today: "Karl Called." Rove speaks only to the author, Wayne Slater, because

I am beneath contempt. When FOX News and Brit Hume ran an excerpt of an interview with me in the film based on the original book, Rove responded by describing me as a "far left wing liberal who has been drinking too much swamp water." The president's big brain advisor, therefore, calls my co-author when he has a peeve with our work.

Karl told Slater he wants his lawyers to talk to the publisher's authors. More on the content after the jump.

From the publisher's book description via Amazon:

Specifically, they [the authors] unveil how Rove:

* Used lobbyist Jack Abramoff as a cat's-paw to manage unruly legislators

* Energetically led the anti-gay marriage movement while protecting a family secret that made his stance bizarrely cynical

* Turned Christian churches into a gigantic vote delivery system, despite privately admitting to being a nonbeliever

* Repeatedly leaked information to harm political opponents, making him the man investigators most wanted to talk to when they began probing the Plame affair

* Was intimately involved in an international disinformation scheme to lead America to war

Though most of this isn't a surprise to Kossacks, it may be to many Americans who depend on TV for their news. Their book tour should open some eyes. I'm sure Keith will have them. Who else?

To contribute to the intrigue, here are the chapter titles:

Preface
1    American Dreamer: Big Plans and Powerful Friends

2    God in the Machine: How Jesus Became a Republican

3    The Gospels of Karl: Gay Ain't Good

4    Devilish Details: It's the Israelis, Stupid

5    Not As I Say: Gay in the GOP

6    Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Coming: Turning On the Turnout Machine in Ohio

7    Lapsed Voters: All God's Children As Republicans

8    For Daddy In Ohio: Making McKinley Proud

9    A Few Simple Questions: What's in Karl's Closet?

10    Lawyers, Duns, and Money: Closing Down the Courthouse

11    It's Hard Work: The Sad State of the Unions

12    A Great Grievance: How To Manufacture a Crisis

13    Rove's Brain: A Secret Chef Cooks Up the Case for War

14    The Unraveling: Karl Losing Control

15    The Power Exchange: Miers, Abramoff, and Media Management

16    To Come Undone: Leaking, Lying, and Leading

Epilogue

Library of Congress

Will Crown Publishers bow to Rove? Will he terrorize them with threats of lawsuits? Will the MSM have them on during their book tour? Who is the closeted gay? Are they talking about closing a courthouse in Ohio? Which of the manufactured crises will be revealed?

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