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Is Karl Rove Coming to UT? [Politics]

The posters are up on the UT Campus. A protest is already being organized. So why isn't there anything on the web about Karl Rove appearing at UT on Monday?

According to Rove's web site, his big day in Texas will be tomorrow. That's when he's signing books at the Barnes & Noble in Round Rock (an event he tweeted to News 8 Austin, KLBJ and Fox Austin, among others) and appearing in College Station at the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation. His calendar shows him going directly from Colorado on the 18th to Columbus, Ohio on the 20th. There's no entry for April 19, the day that Rove is scheduled (at least according to posters from UT's College Republicans) to speak at the Texas Union Ballroom at 7 p.m. in an event that is free and open to the public.

The College Republicans web site shows no mention of Rove, and looks like it was last updated in Winter 2009. Checking the UT events calendar for 4/19 brings up another blank. But a call to the Texas Union did confirm that Rove is coming, and that the event is sponsored by the UT College Republicans.

Whether anyone else will find that out remains to be seen.

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  • Dr. Kananga
  • texas34

    wow you crybabies are hilarious. get over it and yourselves, you pussies.

  • johnrambo

    texas34,

    Amazing comment!! Absolutely nothing to do with anything anyone else has posted here! Get over what exactly??

    Judging from your name(texas34) and the fact that you called everybody here "pussies", it isn't hard to figure out your type. Hopefully you're not too hungover this Sunday morning from last night's "toga" party or whatever theme it was so that you guys could put on little clothing as possible and rub shoulders a bit closer than you get to on the football field. But hey, that's cool by me, I don't care. I guess maybe I'm getting off target here so since you had the amazing insight and suggestion of "get over it" I'd thought I'd over my own things I thought YOU should get over. So, I'd say get over Obama being black, get over health care reform and get over people badmouthing Bush and that whole Nazi regime we had to endure for 8 years.

    See you on the Frisbee golf course, dude!!

    JR.

  • Ygarza

    Um sorry to break it to you guys, but Karl Rove has been living in West Austin for awhile now.

    http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=oid%3A938293

  • Grape Ape

    I'd put Karl Rove up there with the best of "evil doers"

  • whoooo

    Karl Rove is not welcome anywhere in Austin. One day Rove will get his just reward and burn in Hell for his sins.

  • Wes

    Wow, whoooo. You sure seem to be carrying around a lot of anger. Maybe you should worry less about Karl Rove's immortal soul and more about your own mental health.

  • whoooo

    Let's deal with facts here. Rove is not welcome in Austin. If Rove was welcome, then his Austin appearance would be publicized like they are elsewhere in the country.

    There is no anger in this post. There is no anger in saying Charles Manson will one day answer for his sins. Likewise there is no anger in saying Rove will one day answer. In fact, it is comforting to know that people getting away with evil on earth do not get away with it in the afterlife.

  • Wes

    Dude, did you really just compare Karl Rove to Charles Manson? I guess that you deserve some creativity points since you didn't compare Rove to Hitler. :facepalm

  • whoooo

    "did you really just compare Karl Rove to Charles Manson?"

    No I did not. Mainly because Manson is far less evil than Karl Rove. For one thing Manson is mentally nuts while Rove is completely sane (though Rove is a sociopath who sees no consequences for his actions).

    The big difference between Manson and Rove: Manson talked his followers into killing only a few people while Rove talked his followers into killing tens of thousands of people. Over 4,700 Coalition forces died and over 47,000 Iraqi civilians died because of the unnecessary and pointless Iraq war. Real blood was spilled. The people that led the US into this unnecessary war are responsible for this blood. Karl Rove is one of those people responsible.

    Talk to your preacher or whatever religious leader you know. If you're not religious find a philosopher or ethics major. Ask them their thoughts on the morality of the Iraq War. There is no sound argument that justifies the deaths of innocent civilians when the US was unprovoked by Iraq, had no evidence showing Iraq was a threat, and lied about evidence of Iraq's threats.

    I'm assuming you aren't one of the people that still mistakenly believe Iraq had anything to do with the 911 hijackers. Otherwise this is all pointless because those people won't change their mind no matter how many facts you show them.



  • Wes

    Well guys, there's liberal and then there's completely off the reservation. johnrambo, whooo: you're in the latter category.

  • johnrambo

    Actually Wes, whoooo didn't compare Karl Rove to Charles Manson in his comment. What he did was simply draw a parallel so that YOU could understand his first comment, which you clearly did not based on your reply referring to whoooo's "mental health." It was pretty clear you actually had nothing intelligent to say and that you started reaching for any vine to hang onto. Hey, I been there too brother!! However, I do agree with you when you awarded whoooo creativity points for not comparing Rove to Hitler. I'd save that comparison for Bush as it makes much more sense. For Rove I'd have to go with Goebbels. PERFECT comparison. If you don't know who Goebeels is you can look him up on wikipedia.org.

    JR.

  • johnrambo

    Whoops, misspelled Goebbels the second time in the above comment. Just wanted to make sure you got the spelling correct or else you won't find that page on wikipedia.org!!

    JR.

  • Wes

    I dunno, johnrambo, wishing for a person to get his "just reward" by "burn(ing) in Hell" is pretty f'ed up. There are a lot of people who I don't like but I'm not looking foward to them burning in Hell. You obviously seem to agree with whoooo, which is pretty disturbing.

    As far as intelligent thought goes I'd put people who compare Rove and Bush to any Nazi on par with folks who call Barack Obama "socialist," "communist," or "Marxist." They're just parrotting something that they read on the Huffington Post or Daily Kos or heard on Limbaugh or Fox News. Either way they're both just opposite sides of the same coin.



  • johnrambo

    Wes,

    I gotta admit that I enjoy the thought of Rove, Cheney, Bush and the lot of them burning in hell as a just reward. And I'm an atheist! I mean, that thought, contradictory to my everyday belief system, is what puts somewhat at ease to be honest. If I thought those circus monkees were just going to get through eternity with no punishment for making up a lie in the desert for thousands of kids to go die on, well....that just isn't very comforting. And for the record, I'm not looking for people I don't like to burn in hell, just the ones that have caused others deaths to put a bunch of money into the pockets of those in big business. THOSE are the only ones I want to see burn in hell. Oh, and whoever invented those electric dog collars. FUCK that person!!

    I almost see your point about people comparing Rove and Bush to Nazis and linking them to people calling Obama a socialist or communist. Here's the difference though. in theory both socialism and communism are very beautiful ideas. Heck, even capitalism is beautiful in theory. However, the Nazi ethos is horrible anyway you slice it.

    And to defend those who call Rove and Bush names like Goebbels and Hitler, respectively I'd like to add that I don't feel that anyone making that comparison is parroting anyone. Much like if someone saw a person painted green walking down the street and made a passing comment about the Incredible Hulk, no one would accuse that person of parroting anyone else because ANYONE with half a mind would make that same observation. It's the same with the Bush administration, ANYONE who has taken high school level World History will make the connection between the actions of the Nazi regime to that of Bush's reich, I mean, regime.

    JR.

  • Casey B.

    What I want to know is whether the internet silence is deliberate. It's so weird that the College Republicans have scheduled him in at the Texas Union, yet he doesn't even have it on his web site!

  • pop-sav

    You will know when Karl Rove arrives on campus. The 40 acres will reek of sulfur.

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