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As we've reported before, former Bush adviser Karl Rove will be playing himself in an upcoming episode of Family Guy. And he had some thoughts on both the script and the show's creator, Seth MacFarlane.

"I had a telephone conversation with the creator of the program, who is a completely mindless liberal who had an incredibly tasteless joke in the script which I talked him out of," Rove said. "But it was a sign of how much help he needed from a conservative in order to make this program succeed."

Rove went to the Washington, D.C., Fox affiliate to record his lines last week.

Rove and Rush Limbaugh are appearing in an episode where Brian, the liberal family dog, gets bored with Democrats in power and decides to become a conservative.

"I play myself, meaning the son of Satan, the spawn of evil," Rove said.

Video after the jump.

H/T Think Progress.

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September 16, 2009 1:35 PM   

How nice that we can all laugh in good spirits about the fact that Karl Rove has contributed to the degradation of our discourse, the coarsening and stupefying of our culture, 8 years of President Cheney and a Washington so inbred, so concerned only with its own parties and privileges that it cannot function as a government.

I would like Karl Rove to stand behind my car, so I can shift into Reverse, hit the gas and "look forward, not backward".

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September 16, 2009 1:51 PM   

Everybody knows that conservatives are masters of humor - anybody remember the long practical joke where they deliberately falsified intelligence to start a war, used the war to shovel billions to their cronies, and managed to kill quite possibly upwards of a million people?

Or what about the classic gag where they try really hard to get their wacky followers to kill the president?

That was fucking hilarious, Karl! Clearly, the conservative establishment is the greatest collaborative comedy routine ever - after all, they can't possibly be serious, right?

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September 16, 2009 2:42 PM   

I personally like the skit where Rove has his candidate spend way too much time in a state he can't hope to win (like say, California), and his man loses the popular vote in a landslide! Hilarious!! Oh well, I guess the joke was on us huh?

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September 16, 2009 2:47 PM   

Total hubris for him to claim that he's the son of Satan and the spawn of evil. When it comes to evil, Turdblossom can't even touch the hem of Dick Cheney's garment.

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September 16, 2009 3:35 PM   

Why is he not in jail?

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September 16, 2009 5:05 PM   

Frog March!

Oh how sweet it would be if they could draw Rove as a frog, marching.

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