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Is Karl Rove really an evil bastard?
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Commentary: George Soros is an interesting character. Many on the Right paint him as an evil genius who bought the Presidency for Barack Obama. While there is plenty of seeming evidence that is the case, my own research shows Soros’ political activities started much earlier. Both Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck are hyperventilating about Soros’ financial support for various Left-liberal organizations and that makes me want to look further into Soros, his beliefs and motivations.
Recently I was reading Soros’ book, The Crash of 2008 and What It Means when I came across the following nugget which gave me a new insight on Soros’ legendary Bush-hatred:
I had not paid much attention to the postmodern point of view until recently I did not study it and did not fully understand it, but I was willing to dismiss it out of hand because it was in conflict with my profound respect for an objective reality. … Recently, I changed my mind. I now see a direct connection between the postmodern idiom and the Bush administration’s ideology. That insight came from an October 2004 article by Ron Suskind in the New York Times Magazine. This is what he wrote:
“… In the Summer of 2002 … I had a meeting with a senior advisor to Bush. … The aide said guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernable reality.” … “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities which you can study too… We’re History’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.””
The aide, presumably Karl Rove, did not merely recognize that the truth can be manipulated, he promoted the manipulation of truth as a superior approach. This interferes directly with the pursuit of truth both by declaring it futile and by making the task more difficult through constant manipulation. …
If Suskind’s quote is true, Rove really is a cynical, evil bastard, no? I’ll be parsing Rove’s writing and pontifications much, much deeper now.
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