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November 29, 2007
Does Karl Rove Have Twain Syndrome?
Mark Twain' Autobiography has this little ditty on Twain's memory,
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.
Has this become a medical condition that how ravages Karl Rove's memory? Here is what Rove told Charlie Rose about the role of Congress in the run up to the war in Iraq,
One of the untold stories about the war is why did the United States Congress, the United States Senate, vote on the war resolution in the fall of 2002? . . . This administration was opposed to it. . . . Because we didn't think it belonged within the confines of the election. There was an election coming up in a manner of weeks; we thought it made it too political; we wanted it outside the confines of it. It seemed to make things move too fast. There were things that need to be done to bring along allies and potential allies abroad.
Rove is clearly remembering something that never happened.
Via Raw Strory and their video of the Keith Olbermann segment where he shows Rove saying the words quoted above.
Posted by Duane Smith at November 29, 2007 9:04 AM | Read more on Current Events |
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And to quote authors David Edwards and Nick Juliano quoting Arianna Huffington from the Raw Story link you gave:
"'The only problem is when 1984 was written, Google and Lexis Nexis did not exist, and now they do,' she said."
Maybe for now, that may be the only thing saving us from complete tyranny, although democracy is only as good as the level of involvement of the people. (To me, simply giving one's vote for presidential elections in the blind belief that elections are on the up-and-up is not true democracy because it doesn't take any effort to do that.)
There's always a danger that, by being lost in a sea of both information and misinformation that Google provides us, fantasy may become just as real as truth for most people.
Posted by: Glen Gordon at December 4, 2007 10:36 AM
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