# I Pit anyone who doesn't know Karl Rove is a disgusting slimeball

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**Created:** [February 9, 2012, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-who-doesnt-know-karl-rove-is-a-disgusting-slimeball/612294 "2012-02-09T08:43:07Z")
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### Author: ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-who-doesnt-know-karl-rove-is-a-disgusting-slimeball/612294/73 "2012-02-13T13:46:45Z")

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> [@septimus](#):
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> I’m unaware that anyone here, including myself, has even implied that “Rove probably did this.”

Really?

You’ve read this whole thread and didn’t see a single instance of anyone implying Rove probably did the forgeries?

> [@Dems vs. Bush2 and Pubs vs. Obama](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-vs-bush2-and-pubs-vs-obama/612007/72):
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> I still think it’s likely that Karl Rove, or one of his fans, was responsible for the forged memo.

Really?

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> How about you, **Bricker**? Is Rove a disgusting slimeball or not? Can you answer a yes-no question or not?

Sure I can.

No.

Do not read into that answer any admiration for all of Rove’s tactics. But “disgusting slimeball,” while not a term of rigorous definition, is still a harsh conclusion, made harder to accept from you because I’m convinced that your analysis rests equally on his misdeeds and the side he supported by them. That is: if he had been working to support the left, his use of lies would probably not register nearly so high on your outrage meter.

Given you’re apparently able to fool yourself into believing that “I still think it’s likely that Karl Rove, or one of his fans, was responsible for the forged memo,” is implying that you think it’s likely he did it, I have no trouble imagining you’re able to fool yourself into imagining that you judge slimeball-ness evenhandledly.

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> In these political threads, right-wingers constantly whine that they’re treated with disrespect. Debates on economic policy have their place, but it’s difficult to take anyone seriously when they don’t know (or pretend not to know) answers to simple questions like  
> Was Obama born in Hawaii?  
> Is Karl Rove a disgusting slimeball?  
> Was there credible evidence that Iraq had WMD’s?

Wow. You can’t seriously be offering up the argument that statement #1, a matter of fact, is of the same caliber as statement #2, a matter of judgement and opinion, can you?

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