Courage and Consequence--Karl Rove comes to Minneapolis

Courage and Consequence--Karl Rove comes to Minneapolis. On 5/22/10 Karl Rove visited the U of M in Minneapolis Minnesota, Rove and the College Republicans allow taping of the first 10:00 minutes of Rove's over hour long speech with questions and answers. To help you find a bit of the video to zoom in on, here are some time stamps below. 00:15 An audience member before his speech says to me : "I think in a hundred years, he'll be known as a genius, a visionary, a truth teller. Why would a peace protester show up here, makes no sense." 00:30 00:45 He remarks on the rise and fall cycle of liberals and conservatives. 1:15 "[with Obama], we had a candidate who was a relentless centrist."--Karl Rove. 2:00 Mark of this video, shows how 52:00 minutes into his speech and questions, protesters were led away shouting : "WHO IS A TERRORIST? ROVE IS A TERRORIST." There are perhaps 20 police present, and not all are in the room. During the first outburst, 3 emerged from stage right that had been just outside the door. 2:50 Mark, we see and hear Former Republican Senate candidate David Carlson shout out : "GO TAKE A SHOWER" as the first set of protesters are led away. Carlson, has been a bit impulsive before retweeting a racist Obama remark, written up here in MNPublis. http://mnpublius.com/2010/01/gop-state-senate-candidate-retweets-inappropriat... 3:15 Mark, another protestor bursts out, 20 minutes after the first outburst mentioned above. 3:30 After the speech, Karl Rove signed dozens of books. 3:45 I talk to students with books, waiting to get his signature after the speech. All were asked to leave, then those with books were allowed back in to have him sign. We talked about his speech, and politics in the news. We both agree, on the distortion with the extreme seeming the norm in the news. In a way, this video highlights the interruptions, but I think it could have been balanced out with more of Karl Rove's speech. He spoke with facts off the top of his head for an hour, it seems he'd only be served by more exposure of his entire speech, but it was restricted. Instead, I got to roll on the interruptions because they were news. 4:07 On the interruptions: "I have no problem with their views... " Says the student, but he wishes for more civility. 5:30 Near the back of the book line, I found Peace Activist and former FBI Agent Coleen Rowley waiting with a book for him to sign too. We've all been given post-it notes to help him personalize the books. On hers she wrote : "Address it to Leavenworth Prison"--when I open the cover of her book and look inside. She displays her FBI handcuffs to me, which she wants to show to them to Rove. Before we see Rowley confront Rove, we see the U of M police form a tight circle around Rove. Rowley gives him a tee-shirt and he signs her book. She challenges to return another time for a real debate, but she is chased off by the police. After, the police said no arrests were made. 8:50 And at the end, I walk up to Rove with a book to sign and ask him a question : "Will Obama be reelected?" "Way to early to tell"--he responds wisely. I press him though, "from today's perspective?" "Today he wouldn't, when you're running one point ahead in the polls with Ron Paul that's a problem."--Karl Rove. Karl Rove remains a polarizing person. Revered by the right, scorned by the left as he makes his way around the country with his new book : "Courage and Consequence". Craig Stellmacher craigstellmacher.com

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[inilledra]

Second most dangerous man in the U.S.A. behind Dick Cheney. Karl Rove, made George Bush...........without Karl, George is 100 times more foolish than he came across as President.

[fknugly222]

With all the money he has due to walking on the backs of the poor and the ongoing genocide in the middle east, and there's still nothing he can do about that scraggly baldness. Fuck you Rove.

[TheyHearUsNow]

@highhorse313 because he's right.

[jimw1010]

Rove is THE MAN!!! Great Book!!

[rkymtntruther]

When we protest the way these meatheaded shitsacks want us to, they STILL want to shut us down.

[rkymtntruther]

Great work Coleen! Rove IS a tool!

[GodBlesstheGrass]

Bush's senior aide said that others were ''in the reality-based community". ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' the aide continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

[iversonmatthew]

Rove is a tool. And a really, really bad man.

[highhorse313]

Why is Mr. Potato Head not in jail?

[RUKiddinMeHuh]

satans puppet