November 2008
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Balearic jam for Thursday; my office is entirely too hot inside.
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NY Times Interview with Karl Rove
November 16, 2008
QUESTIONS FOR KARL ROVE
Party Loyalist
Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON
[…]
Have you met Barack Obama?
Yes, I know him. He was a member of the Senate while I was at the White House and we shared a mutual friend, Ken Mehlman, his law-school classmate. When Obama came to the White House, we would talk about our mutual friend.Did you have lunch together? Talk in the hall?
We sat in the meeting room and chatted before the meeting. He had a habit of showing up early, which is a good courtesy.Are you going to send him a little note congratulating him?
I already have. I sent it to his office. I sent him a handwritten note with funny stamps on the outside.What kind of funny stamps?
Stamps.[…]
Do you have any advice for [George Bush] at this point?
With all due respect, I don’t need you to transmit what I want to say to my friend of 35 years.Remember, attack politics are out. It’s a new age of civilized discourse.
You’re the one who hurt my feelings by saying you didn’t trust me.Did I say that?
Yes, you did. I’ve got it on tape. I’m going to transcribe this and send it to you.INTERVIEW CONDUCTED, CONDENSED AND EDITED BY DEBORAH SOLOMON
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I always thought that this was the best way to read any text whose author takes him/herself almost absurdly seriously. This holds true for Adorno, too— cf. Brian J. Davis’ Minima Moralia EP.. yeah, I guess Kerouac did this too. But we’re all adolescents at heart.
(More Baudrillard at UbuWeb)
