Rove lies through his teeth

I unearthed this one today, and it's pretty laughable. It's CNN footage of a questioner asking Karl Rove about his involvement in the 2000 South Carolina Republican primary, when an organization well-connected to the Bush campaign smeared Bush's biggest opponent in the primary, John McCain, just prior to election day.

Most know the story by now, but for those who don't, Wikipedia's entry on the subject does a pretty good job, under John McCain's entry on the Website:

Analysts attribute McCain's loss in South Carolina to Bush's mobilization of the state's evangelical voters. Indeed, each side made allegations of negative campaigning against the other. There was alleged to have been a push polling campaign by the Bush camp, in which phone calls were made to conservative Republican voters in the Deep South, allegedly to ask them whether they would support McCain if he had an illegitimate interracial daughter with a black woman. McCain in fact has an adopted daughter from Bangladesh. Accounts of this are covered in the books, Bush's Brain and Boy Genius. Additionally, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh entered the fray supporting Bush.

Yea, that about sums it up.

Anyway, I love Rove's righteous indignation in this piece. Me thinks Mr. Rove protests a bit much here. You know how the saying goes - the more guilty people are, the more vehement their protests. If the shoe fits, wear it, Rove.

And some wonder why President Bush only appeared before screened audiences during the '04 election. The reason's pretty simple - because he would have been subjected to questions like this, which would have proven highly embarrassing. But, Bush would have always had Faux News coming to his defense, anyway.