Tuesday, March 11, 2008

"I Don't Get No Respect"

Rodney Dangerfield doppelgänger, Karl Rove, was paid $40,000.00 to speak at the University of Iowa. Sounds like a perfect location for his neo-conservative spew, but the students dared to taunt him!

At one point, Rove was heckled into making a rare admission. "You got a chance to ask your questions later and make your stupid statements, let me make mine."

In response to another heckler who brought to Rove's attention that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's granted Rove the title as Worst Person Ever, Rove reminisced about his authoritarian heroes, "Yea, worse than Hitler, worse than Stalin, worse than Mao and worse than the person who introduced aluminum baseball bats."

How ironic that the message the Worst Person Ever delivered went unreported. Only the heckling was of interest.

Near the end, an audience member asked, "Can we have our $40,000.00 back?" Rove shot back, "No, you can't."

If only we could get the last 7 years back.

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