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There is a lot of animosity between Rove and the press, and inviting him to keynote at an editor's conference is a way to bring on the antagonism. He is introduced as Bush's senior special adviser, but immediately downplays this by saying Dick Cheney really has the president's ear. Rove starts out by slamming journalists and editors in a series of caustic, funny, spontaneous remarks. Then he launches into more of the usual spin, with his sentiment for innocent Iraqi deaths immediately trumped by his prayers for POW's. It's a written speech, and I am thoroughly disturbed by how much it sounds like George W. Bush with a different voice and poorer delivery. The cadence and rhetoric are *exactly* the same, erasing all doubt as to where this material comes from. Rove canvasses for a restriction of polling by quoting a poll, clarifies that no child left behind means all children will be tested with their results published, and gets really passionate about health insurance reform. During the heated Q & A, he makes the statement that the next presidential election will be about security. I'm sure it will, because Karl Rove has a knack for making elections about what he wants them to be about.
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