A moderate Republican friend mine my was feeling a wee bit celebratory about Rove’s handling of his Meet the Press interview with NBC White House correspondent David Gregory. He sent my this fairly perceptive email on how Rove managed to get the upper hand in the interview (unedited):
our affection for him is probably similar, but we differ regarding the appreciation of his intellect. given the very poor political position he and his party are in he was never touched by the russert's stand in.
while vulnerable on the discussed topics ... the 2006 election results, iraq, 9/11, immigration & social security reform failures, cheney's flip-flop of the '94 position against an iraq invasion, miscalculation of the costs of the war and the ability of iraq revenues to cover it, his treasonous Plame disclosure, and avoidance of testimony because of executive privilege ... rove never took a hit.
he even used the national broadcast as an opportunity to point out all of hillary's negatives as the demo front runner. while a correspondent of the calibre of Moyers or Schieffer would never have let rove assume such control of the interview, that bush's brain emerged from that discussion unscathed speaks to his malignant brilliance.
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