Karl Rove Forced Off Stage In CA By Code Pink Protesters (VIDEO)

I have mixed emotions about this.

On the one hand, I don't like the idea of someone, however odious, not being allowed to speak, especially at an event where he is scheduled to speak.

On the other hand, this vile little man is responsible, either directly or indirectly, for so much pain and sorrow, for so much death and destruction, that it is hard to imagine any punishment he received being out of proportion to his crimes.

Fuck him. He needs to experience this directly, and the manifestation of push back like this - and identifying him as a war criminal in so many words - is what's necessary to get him out behind his Oz curtain and ultimately behind bars. Vile fucking pig.

I especially loved Rove's usual BS about the "totalitarianism of the left" and his "First Amendment rights".

Karl also seems to be a tad confused (I say seems to be, because he's not actually confused...he just can't help but lie about everything) about what the First Amendment says, so let me offer this helpful explanation: It does NOT say you have the right to be the biggest, most destructive asshole in the world for 20 years, and then go on a book tour without being heckled.

Another hint for Karl: "Totalitarianism" is not a particularly accurate word to describe mild heckling.

I have no mixed emotions for Karl Rove. He has shown over and over a first class method of putting people down and doing it without an ounce of remorse. What's the old saying, "what goes around comes around"? Bush called him turd blossom, I call him a large piece of $hit.

Fuck Rove - he deserves all the contempt he gets. He's fortunate not to be hung for war crimes. I'm disappointed no one threw shit at him.

I find it amusing how the teabaggers can always call out others for being "rude" but they are proud of their August townhall shoutfests.

Man o man - the comments here a TPM are just a bit psychotic. On one thread they piss and moan about hateful shit/rhetoric and on this thread it's mostly hateful shit/rhetoric they just pissed and moaned about. LMAO... I guess they just can't be happy in the land of sunshine and unicorns. Go figure.

If he ever comes to my town, I'd heckle him right out on his fuckin' fat ass.

The bloodied and dismembered bodies of half a million needlessly murdered Iraqis and thousands of American and coalition soldiers are piled in perpetuity on the heinous soul of Karl Rove.

He will never crawl out from under their weight.

WAR CRIMINAL! INCARCERATE THAT MURDERER!!!

He was heckled. He wasn't spit on, wasn't called anything racist. He wasn't shot, he was yelled at. And he cried like a baby. A lot better treatment than he would get if he was in prison - where he belongs - where gang rape and daily beatings would occur. Odel Roo, please go back to NewsMax or the Alabama RNC where you belong.

Apparently his "Courage" was not sufficient for him to face these particular "Consequences."

Fuck KR and the Turd Blossom apologists.

Criminals do not deserve an audience.

KR ought to be in Federal Poundmeintheass Prison for Treason and sedition, or International Prison in The Hague for his complicit part in War Crimes.

Instead he's on a book tour making money off of his evil life and lined up to be shoulder-to-shoulder on FOX with other convicted Felons like Ollie North.

Ah, yes...just more lefty fascism being defending here at home of tolerance..

...you people are seriously beyond parody

Rove has been on TV (and not only on FOX, but on CNN and most of the major broadcast networks as well) for the past year and a half, first as an apologist for the Bush administration, then as a an attack dog against Obama, and now shilling for his book. He has had ample opportunity to make his voice heard, and will continue to get that opportunity. I really don't feel too bad about him being heckled off a stage in Beverly Hills, of all places.

You reap what you sow, Karl.

I'm terribly ashamed of Code Pink and their performance at this event.

Didn't any of them think to bring a spare pair of shoes?

The irresponsible little kid in me is cheering. The rest of me can see this is no different from teabaggery. We're better than this, people.

This scum of a bastard had no problem outting a CIA agent, and jepordizing her life and career . And what about all of the lives lost in Iraq by our soldiers?.... What about all of the injuries suffered by our men and women in the service of our country? Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are war criminals as well as " chicken hawks ".

Anybody notice how Rove shouted down David Ploufe on the Tee Vee just a few days ago?

I'm not sure why Rove should be allowed to shout people down but nobody else should be allowed to shout him down.
Apparently, the cops didn't think there were any grounds for arrests of Code Pink members. Seems to me like they were excercising their First Amendment rights.
As far as political fallout... well, is there no distinction between speech and criminal activity? Since when was smashing the windows of your political opponents' offices protected by the First Amendment? Spitting on a member of congress is an assault and a battery. Death threats are obviously criminal.

Yes, of course the Republicans will claim equivalence, but they will fool a relatively small number of people.

I normally don't like these kinds of disruptions, whether it be slimes like Rove or David Horowitz. Having said that...

This is EXACTLY the kind of tactic he used coming up; handing out invitations for "beer & pizza" at local Democratic meetings (and then distributing them to the homeless to crash the events).
Faking a "bug" planted in his office to discredit his opponents. And lately, revealing the name of a CIA because he has torqued at her husband.

He cannot be allowed to speak unchallenged.

This type of disruption just gets used by the GOP to push the meme that both sides have equivalently loud, radical types that are equivalently dangerous, when nothing could be futher from the truth. Although I personally do see a distinction between handcuffs, the Code Pink lady's props, and automatic weapons or explosives, which are the dangerous wingnut's typical props for disruptive activity. And I can just see Turdblossom and his boyfriend, cozying up for a late night martini, complaining about how radical leftists made it impossible for him to reward his fans with autographed copies of his newest work of fiction, "Courage and Consequences", which presumably refers to the courage involved in stealing an election, and the consequences that ensued, which was to fuck this coutry up for at least the next 50-100 years. Rove, the Chimp in the oval office, and the evil overlord Cheney who pulled the strings from a secret bunker a hundred feet below the surface of the earth, deliberately set in motion (through right wing, University of Chicago school economic shock therapy of the kind Naomi Klein so profoundly identifies in her masterpiece "Shock Doctrine") a regressive plan of massive government deregulation, regressive tax cuts (which greatly expanded the gap between the upper class and the middle class in the U.S.), elimination of government services (making things harder and more expensive for working people), privitization of governmental functions and precious national resources, and expanded public spending in the military industrial complex (on the pretext of national security and terrorism, but as it happens for the financial benefit of the dark overloard and all of teh GOP's most loyal supporters in the defense-national security industrial spectrum. I guess that's what Rove considers to be "courage". The consequences are ones for which the rest of us will be paying the price for decades to come, no matter what Obama or anybody else does. In fact, the GOP is already blaming Obama for problems in parts of the government that the Bush White House decimated, and in which they planted neo-cons in civil service jobs, to undermine what a progressive president will do.

This disruption, sadly, plays into the GOP's public relations approach to reality -- take the most obnoxious thing that anybody on the left does, and extrapolate from that the obnoxious conducts represents the median of leftist thinking, while understating what the right does, and disclaiming any connection to the many violent elements in the Wingnut branch of the Teabagger movement that they have been deliberately stoking for the "enthusiasm" they bring to the GOP cause (which is regaining power so that they can start all over again destroying government, increasing the gap between the rich and poor and expanding government's reach into out private lives, for our moral wellbeing. Sdly, those are the "consequences" unless we finally wake up and continue the work that was started in 2008 - show up at the ballot box, not a book signing, and disrupt the GOP plan by defeating this delusional conservative phenomena once and for all.

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