{"id":924,"date":"2008-05-25T16:26:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T23:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=924"},"modified":"2008-05-25T16:26:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T23:26:32","slug":"stuttering-karl-rove-wont-deny-siegelman-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Stuttering Karl Rove Won’t Deny Siegelman Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Karl Rove<\/a>, who has refused to appear before the Committee to answer questions regarding the investigation and prosecution of the former Democratic governor of Alabama, Don Siegelman. Rove is alleged to have improperly directed the Justice Department to pursue the Siegelman case for political purposes. Rove, who still appears on Fox News as Senior Political Contributor, despite his position as an “informal”<\/em> adviser to John McCain (which Fox does not disclose to their viewers), was interviewed today by George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week<\/em>. At the end of the interview, Stephanopoulos asks Rove about the Siegelman case and illicits this guilt-ridden response:<\/p>\n

Stephanopoulos: To be clear, you did not contact the Justice department about this case?<\/span>
\nRove: Uh, I read about … I’m going to simply say what I’ve said about this before, which is I found out about Don Siegleman’s investigation and indictment by reading about it in the newspaper.<\/span>
\nStephanopoulos: But that’s not a denial.<\/span>
\nRove: Uh … I … I … I’ve … I’ve … uh … uh … I … you know … heh … I read about it … I’ve heard about it, read about it, learned about it for the first time by reading about it in the newspaper.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stephanopoulos never actually asked Rove where he heard about the case. He asked if Rove had ever contacted the Justice Department about it. Not only did Rove evade answering the question, he couldn’t even spit out the lies his attorney had obviously coached him on. Watch for yourself:<\/p>\n

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It remains to seen if Rove will ever be brought to justice. The Congress has not been particularly assertive in these matters. And Rove is famous for squirming out of tough situations like this. In fact, that is how he got the nickname “Turd Blossom”<\/em> bestowed by none other than George W. Bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Karl Rove, who has refused to appear before the Committee to answer questions regarding the investigation and prosecution of the former Democratic governor of Alabama, Don Siegelman. Rove is alleged to have improperly directed the Justice Department to pursue the Siegelman case for political purposes. Rove, who still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[308,269,45],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-don-siegelman","tag-george-stephanopoulos","tag-karl-rove"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-eU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1214,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1214","url_meta":{"origin":924,"position":0},"title":"Karl Rove: Turning On The Spit","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/5\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Karl Rove, Harriet Miers, and Josh Bolton are finally going to submit to questioning from the House Judiciary Committee. 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