The Washington Post's Dana Milbank has been reading Karl Rove's new book. He writes, and I quote, that reading Rove nearly made him choke on a pretzel.
That business about President George W. Bush misleading the nation about Iraq? Didn't happen. "Did Bush lie us into war? Absolutely not," Rove writes.
Condoning torture? Wrong! "The president never authorized torture. He did just the opposite."
Foot-dragging on global warming? Au contraire. "He was aggressive and smart on this front."
You thought Bush was responsible for turning a budget surplus into a record deficit and nearly doubling the national debt? That he was in charge when the economy plunged into the worst collapse since the Great Depression? Guess again. Spending was "far below average" under Bush, who led the nation through "the longest period of economic growth since President Reagan."
Even Bush's televised claim that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Michael "Brownie" Brown was doing a "heckuva" job after Hurricane Katrina wasn't what our lying ears told us it was. "Bush was responding to compliments others had offered to Brown."
Heckuva job, Architect. In fact, these new disclosures call for a correction of some of my past reporting:
CORRECTION
Every article about George W. Bush ever written by Dana Milbank was wrong. The Post regrets the error.
Maybe there's some good in being reminded on a daily basis (this is Rove's day) that many if not all Americans tend to accept whatever "truths" confirm their prejudices and justify their anger. Rove, a street-smart guy of small wisdom, has been sent to earth to make sure that continues.
