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July 15, 2008

Karl Rove Likens Himself to Beowulf's Grendel

@ 1:59 pm by Chris Good

Karl Rove has been called many things, including the “architect” of President Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns and “MC Rove” after dancing onstage at the 2007 radio and TV correspondents dinner. But now the former White House adviser has likened himself to something else: the monster Grendel in the epic poem Beowulf.

"I'm like Grendel in Beowulf," he is quoted as saying by Forbes.com. "People talk about me … and there's nothing I can do about it."

In the poem, Grendel terrorized a Danish mead hall before being slain by Beowulf, the poem's hero.

Rove dropped the reference at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour in Los Angeles, shrugging off accusations that his controversial past overshadows his new role as an election analyst for FOX News.

Rove, who has served as a pundit since February, drew the ire of critics last week by dodging a subpoena to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, as Democrats sought to question him about the firing of several U.S. attorneys in 2006. After his absence from the hearing, Chairman John Conyers (D-N.Y.) threatened to hold Rove in contempt.

-David Matthews

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He was the architect of Bush' assumption of dictatorial power!

Comment by Frank — July 16, 2008 @ 7:33 am
Rove and the entire Bush team think they are above the law and so far they have proved they are. If the Democrats had any guts they would pursue this matter until Rove complies or lock him up. If as journalist can be jailed for not revealing sources then Rove, Cheney and the rest should be jailed for not telling what they have done to erode our freedoms and for selling the American people out on energy policy. Don Seigelman is one good example of where Rove used our judicial system to benefit his politics. If we allow this to continue we will have lost an essential ingredient of our freedoms as we have known them.

Comment by sharilyn — July 16, 2008 @ 7:58 am
You forgot Rove's more infamous nickname — "Miss Piggy".

Is there a trademark infringement issue?

Comment by Robert — July 16, 2008 @ 8:06 am
Unlike (what he says about) Grendel, Rove could do a lot about the charges, rumors, etc. circulating about him: using federal appointees for political purposes (GSA, et al), leaking Plame's name and (a distortion of her) role, packing the bureaucracy with ideological hacks, interfering with regulations that protect miners, air quality, investors, etc, abusing prosecutorial systems to salt Seigelman away in jail and firing ideologically incorrect prosecutors generally. He could do a lot about these charges rumors, namely find all his old emails and come clean. Even if Grendel was a victim, the self-pitying Rove is not.

Comment by Pattison Fulton — July 16, 2008 @ 11:11 am
I like him, I find him very refreshing, he
isn't afraid of the Dems. I say more power to
him.

Comment by Jinny Flegal — July 16, 2008 @ 12:21 pm
He has made that bizarre reference at least twice in the last year and a half - just google 'Rove Grendel' and the references appear. So this is non-news.

Comment by Peg — July 16, 2008 @ 3:41 pm

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