Read as Frank Rich of the New York Times rips apart the assault on reality that is Karl Rove’s new memoir:
There’s a good reason why Rove’s memoir is titled “Courage and Consequence,” not “Truth or Consequences.” Its spin is so uninhibited that even “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job!” is repackaged with an alibi. The book’s apolitical asides are as untrustworthy as its major events. For all Rove’s self-proclaimed expertise as a student of history, he writes that eight American presidents assumed office “as a result of the assassination or resignation of their predecessor.” (He’s off by only three.) After a peculiar early narrative detour to combat reports of his late adoptive father’s homosexuality, Rove burnishes his family values cred with repeated references to his own happy heterosexual domesticity. This, too, is a smoke screen: Readers learned months before the book was published that his marriage ended in divorce.
Ouch….that’s gonna leave a mark.
Nice. This revisionist history stuff that Rove et al. are peddling needs to be shredded. Glad Rich could do it.
“That’s gonna leave a mark” because…? We were expecting a positive review from the likes of Frank Rich?
Yeah but it’s just so important that the book be called out – I mean there’s a major risk that Karl Rove’s book about the administration he advised would be seen as an objective and historically accurate.
Former adviser for a former administration writes a book trying to shape how they’re seen – nothing new under the sun.