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Update 4pm Eastern. Radar talks to Fred Thompson rep Mark Corallo, who seems to shoot down rumors of a Rove jump to the campaign.
Update: Video highlights and a parting shot.
Update: Press conference at 11:35am. Update: 11:25am Eastern.
The President is talking about Rove’s family “making huge sacrifices. We’re going to be friends for a long time. [...]

For a hearty lunchtime chuckle: Check out my interview with Ron Ott of Coptix, one of the masterminds behind the April Fools’ joke that caused a Rove Derangement Syndrome feeding frenzy.

April Fools!

A rant by Cindy Sheehan, posted by defeatist David Swanson on his website advocating the impeachment of President Bush:
More Reich-Wing Horse Pucky
The Gathering of Eagles is supposedly a veterans’ ad hoc group who are allowing themselves to be despicably stage-managed by Rove and Move America Forward using fascist tactics to lie about an anti-war group, [...]

“Blogmaster” Amanda Marcotte has resigned from the Edwards’ campaign (the site is currently down). Of course, it’s all the right wing’s and Catholic activists’ fault (a blame-avoidance strategy I highlighted on The O’Reilly Factor tonight before news of Marcotte’s resignation broke). Writes Marcotte this evening:
I was hired by the Edwards campaign for the skills and [...]

Remember the new Congressman from Wisconsin who took great pride in the fact that he greeted Laura Bush in Green Bay and deliberately called her “Barbara”? (oooooooh, BURN!)
White House official says no, that didn’t happen. Now Congressman Kagen has climbed down a bit.
Now that Kagen’s longer story about his White House visit is [...]

And now, another PSA from See-Dubya:
Tinfoil-hat syndrome can affect earnest, sincere lefties anywhere, at any time. Wherever progressives gather, whether in a hotel lobby in Vegas, or now at a protest on a beach near San Francisco, you never know when the spontaneous, irresistible urge to swaddle one’s noggin in tinfoil will strike.
Won’t you [...]

I had to read it several times to make sure it was genuine, but it really is true: Washington Post columnist David Broder calls out the left-wing media for its Rove Derangement Syndrome:
For much of the past five years, dark suspicions have been voiced about the Bush White House undermining its critics, and Karl Rove [...]

US Senate candidate Ned Lamont of Connecticut, darling of the left-wing blogosphere, is now running as fast as he can from the nutball bloggers who have zealously promoted his campaign against Sen. Joe Lieberman from its inception. (Today’s Vent gives the overview.) And he’s lying through his teeth in his effort to rid himself of [...]

***update: I’m scheduled to talk about the Raza schools tonight on The O’Reilly Factor at approx. 830pm Eastern.***
So, Karl Rove gave his “We are all Americans” speech to the National Council of La Raza–The Race–yesterday. Today, my syndicated column digs into the millions of dollars in Bush administration federal education grants The Race has received [...]

Funny how the Wall Street Journal editorial writers have no problem smearing immigration enforcement advocates as “nativists” while Karl Rove holds hands with the National Council of The Race.
I promise you more on this subject tomorrow.
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Human Events advises Rove on what he should say to The Race this afternoon. We can dream.
While we’re talking about [...]

Over the weekend, I pointed to a story in the blabbermouth NYTimes about the vacation homes of Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld and VP Dick Cheney as a news hook to talk about the Left’s selective apathy towards reckless, unnecessary invasions of privacy.
The reactions were predictable: the usual moonbats accused me of hypocrisy by dredging up [...]

Why publish maps and specific street names and photographs of the private (not anymore) homes where the Vice President and Defense Secretary and their families spend their vacations?
Why?
Because blabbermouth Bill Keller feels like it, right? (Interesting timing, no?)
Because the “people” (you know: Code Pink, Fred Phelps, jihadis) have a “right to know,” right?
Because neighbors are [...]

Ian’s got the video of Murtha on Meet The Press. Transcript here.
After criticizing Karl Rove’s “fat backside,” Murtha put forth his fat-headed Okinawa plan:
MR. RUSSERT: You say redeploy. Again, Mr. Rove challenges that comment.
Let’s listen and give you again a chance to respond to the White House.
(Videotape, Monday):
MR. ROVE: Congressman Murtha said, “Let’s redeploy them [...]

So, while the moonbats foam over the non-indictment of Karl Rove, watch for the MSM to start caterwauling about Bush’s secret trip to Baghdad.
Reader Stephen C. writes:
Care to make a friendly wager on how long it will take the Democrats to accuse the President of making the trip as a publicity stunt?
Or, for that matter, [...]

Tim Chapman reported last week:
To qualify for full Social Security benefits, a worker must register 10 years of work. Under current law, illegal immigrants who obtain legal status can use their previous illegal work history to apply for Social Security benefits.
A compromise immigration bill pending right now in the U.S. Senate (sponsored by Chuck Hagel [...]

The Senate ignores the Windbag from Massachusetts and votes:
The Senate voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday and clashed over citizenship for millions of men and women who live in the United States illegally.
Amid increasingly emotional debate over election-year immigration legislation, senators voted 83-16 to add fencing and 500 [...]

***Update: Byron York reports on Leopold digging in…***
The Wall Street Journal has a piece today covering the left-wing blog storm over false rumors that Karl Rove was indicted and about to jump ship on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday.
We take a break from the border blues and have fun with the moonbats who’ve been [...]

There are a lot of rumors flying around the left side of the blogosphere about a Karl Rove indictment. (He’s among the top Technorati searches today.) The New York Sun reports otherwise.
But unhinged Democrats are already partying hard. The Detroit Free Press report:
Was it an improbable outside-the-Beltway scoop on the ultimate inside-the-Beltway story? A criminal [...]

***scroll for updates***
That’s the buzz. Tune in to Tony’s show starting now.
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Update: Scott McClellan resigning…
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday he is resigning, continuing a shakeup in President Bush’s administration that has already yielded a new chief of staff and could lead to a change in the Cabinet.
Appearing with Bush on the White [...]

Drudge is hyping Bill Sammon’s new book, “Strategery,” this morning and publishes an interesting passage from the book on the White House’s warm views of the blogosphere and cyberspace.
Or the “ether space,” as President Bush calls it. (At least they got him to stop saying “Internets.”)
“I think what’s healthy is that there’s no monopoly [...]

I added this at the bottom of the post below, but Karl Rove’s significant concession (camouflaged in face-saving rhetoric) deserves to stand alone:
President George W. Bush would accept a slight delay in permitting Dubai Ports World to acquire a British company that operates six key U.S. ports, senior White House adviser Karl Rove told Fox [...]

After a rather rude (and criminal) disruption, I’m back. Let’s return to the ports, shall we?
Lesson One of Portgate: Scream “Islamophobia/xenophobia” often enough, and people will start to back down.
Lesson Two of Portgate: Mislead and mischaracterize your critics often enough, and people will start to back down.
Here are two key talking points being pushed by [...]

Now (via Breitbart/AP):
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid wrote at least four letters helpful to Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff, and the senator’s staff regularly had contact with the disgraced lobbyist’s team about legislation affecting other clients.
The activities _ detailed in billing records and correspondence obtained by The Associated Press _ are far more [...]

CNN reporting:
Sen. John Kerry has decided to support a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, CNN’s Congressional Correspondent Ed Henry reported Thursday.
Kerry, in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum, was marshaling support in phone calls during the day, Henry said.
He announced his decision Wednesday to a [...]

Much has been made of the rabid Left’s online swarm that shut down the Washington Post’s blog comment section. The comments seemed comparatively tame to me. Maybe I’ll copy off Chapter 6 of Unhinged and send it off to the WaPo ombudsman and her editors to help them feel better.
Meantime, the moonbat manipulation of Amazon.com’s [...]