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...What a Wonderful World,” the result is a cliché that’s been used before to greater effect. The jokes themselves are mostly cheap-shots that pander to a liberal audience—at one point, Vice President Cheney (Richard Dreyfuss) snaps at Karl Rove (Toby Jones), “I’m really confused as to what you’re doing in this room.” [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...York Times reporter JUDITH MILLER to join Mike Huckabee, Karl Rove and ex--Clinton flack Howard Wolfson on Fox News' island of misfit toys...
...suffered the loss of tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs, voted Bush back into office to pursue four more years of vanity, Constitution-shredding and a high-school-level understanding of geopolitics. It was then that I realized that presidential elections are more about biology than intellect. All Karl Rove had to do was present George W. Bush as the alpha dog and season with large doses of fear: pack mentality would certainly do the rest. James Spooner, ALBUQUERQUE...
...perhaps most notably, the recent economic slump has meant good news for someone who hasn’t gotten much since the October Revolution: Karl Marx. Apparently, now that capitalism is teetering on wobbly legs, the polemical rhetoric of Das Kapital is looking more and more appealing. Jorn Schutrompf, who manages the German publishing firm Karl-Deitz, claims that “Marx is in fashion again,” and bookstores peddling Marx’s works have reported sales increases of over 300 percent. Even Germany’s Finance Minister Peer Steinbruck recently conceded in the news...
...Karl Marx lived to see this miniature revival, he wouldn’t have been that surprised. Marx knew the power of cataclysmic financial events to shake the world’s faith in neo-liberal doctrine. In the wake of the 1857 stock market panic, Marx wrote to his friend and co-author Friedrich Engels, “The American Crash is a delight to behold and it’s far from over.” Yet that downturn—along with all of the other shocks and recessions that have periodically plagued American economic history?...