Word: karle
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...counterinsurgency by the social right. A federal amendment to ban civil marriage for gays was introduced in Congress. In 11 states, constitutional amendments were passed by grass-roots Christian groups to do the same. But again, ultimate success was elusive on both sides. The federal amendment failed badly, but Karl Rove promised to fight again...
...Together, the year?s fistful of contentious new political films formed a burgeoning non-fiction genre: the agit-doc. They ranged from specifically anti-Dubya tracts like ?Bush?s Brain? (about Presidential Advisor Karl Rove) and ?Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War? (military and intelligence nabobs deconstructing the Bush war rationale) to ?The Hunting of the President? (detailing the Right?s long campaign to destroy Bill Clinton). They covered the media?s coverage of Iraq in ?Control Room? (a sympathetic look at the Arab news channel Al Jazeera during Operation Iraqi Freedom) and ?Outfoxed? (a searing attack...
...clinch its four-part thesis: that the cherub-faced Rove has run some demonic campaigns, that some of his low-road strategies won George Bush the governor?s mansion and the White House, that Rove is a dominant force in the President?s policies (Moore has called Bush ?Karl Rove?s finger puppet?) and that he?s been behind some of the Bush team?s sleazier escapades, like the racial slurs against John McCain in the 2000 South Carolina primary and the outing of a cia operative married to former Ambassador Joseph Wilson. Well, maybe. The witnesses offer less evidence...
...Liberals, who dared to dream before election day, turned grouchy the day after. But they know that the message of ?Fahrenheit 9/11? and its agit-doc brethren didn?t go stale on Nov. 3. With Karl Rove fully validated as the King-maker - he got his man the popular vote this time - ?Bush?s Brain? is more relevant than before. Moore has been planning a documentary on health care, which should be ever more timely as the Administration pushes its privatization angle on Social Security. Of course Moore and his fellow Savonarolas will once again be preaching to the choir...
...days after New Year's in 2003. The President had been out clearing cedar, and Laura Bush was lying on a sofa reading, or at least pretending to. That Christmas holiday was a deep breath between the 2002 midterm elections and the walk-up to the war in Iraq. Karl Rove, chief strategist for the Bush re-election campaign, arrived at the house with his faded blue canvas briefcase in hand. He had come to help put together a different kind of puzzle...