{"id":1142,"date":"2007-04-15T23:23:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T04:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/15\/the-blackberry-patch\/"},"modified":"2007-04-15T23:30:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T04:30:58","slug":"the-blackberry-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/15\/the-blackberry-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"the blackberry patch&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"134\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"117\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:eUh8TeDL610NkM:http:\/\/www.mopocket.com\/graphics\/_images_blackberry_loch-ness.jpg\" \/>In my musings, even from years before I got involved in following the Bush sheenanigans closely, I wondered how the Administration coordinated their Talking Point network so effectively. It seemed like there was some kind of telepathy going on. I would hear of an issue, and almost immediately, the Talking Points would be on the News from multiple sources, on the airway&#8217;s Talk Shows, and on the streets. Sometimes the stories were circulation before I&#8217;d even heard the issue they were purporting to explain. When all this stuff came up about Rove&#8217;s alternative email servers came up, I immediately jumped to the conclusion that it <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"112\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"220\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.1boringoldman.com\/images\/blackberry.gif\" \/>was Rove&#8217;s Blackberry that ran the show. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s even true or not, but it&#8217;s a hypothesis so intuitively right that I&#8217;m going to assume it&#8217;s correct until I know otherwise [plus, it gives me a chance to use my nifty Karl Rove Balckberry graphic over and over].<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">There&#8217;s an old military principle that shutting down the enemy&#8217;s lines of communication is the way to win a closely fought battle. It strikes me that separating Karl Rove from accesss to a secret way to coordinate the Administration both impairs his ability to initiate these Administration salvos <u>and<\/u> keep his finger on the pulse of the multiplicity of issues he&#8217;s obviously followed closely over the years. In the last few months, they seem to be stumbling over their own feet. And in a couple of days, Gonzales is going to get &quot;creamed&quot; in a Congressional Hearing. I say, let&#8217;s add Karl Rove and Harriet Miers to the list by issuing supoenas from both the House and Senate while continuing to moniter for clandestine communications. I even have a fantasy of the F.B.I. and C.I.A. using their new powers to snoop to focus on Mr. Rove. I think without Rove&#8217;s Blackberry, his gang would fall apart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my musings, even from years before I got involved in following the Bush sheenanigans closely, I wondered how the Administration coordinated their Talking Point network so effectively. It seemed like there was some kind of telepathy going on. I would hear of an issue, and almost immediately, the Talking Points would be on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}