Karl Rove's eagerly anticipated tell-all "Courage and Consequence" is being released today, and it wastes no time in laying out the blockbuster revelations. Only four paragraphs in, we learn that Rove once "knocked on a door only to find Elizabeth Taylor standing in front of me wearing a revealing nightgown and inviting me in."
Stop the presses!!!
I've only had a short time to peruse the book, but follow me below the fold for a few other teasers...
There's more about Elizabeth Taylor, but you'll have to jump to page 46 for the, ummm, not-very-juicy details. Nevertheless, it is clear that this incident had a profound effect on the mind of the young Rove.
Flash-forward years ahead, to the famous encounter with Laurie David and singer Sheryl Crow at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2007. Here is Rove's description:
Ms. David now began a slow retreat, edging away as Ms. Crow pinched and poked me with a bony index finger. Like most healthy, red-blooded American men, I have always harbored a fantasy of being touched in an inappropriate way by an attractive female celebrity. But this wasn't exactly what I had in mind...
Indeed, 2007 brought more celebrity encounters to Rove. He regales us with a riveting, tension-filled account of the 2007 Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner, where comedy improv entertainers Brad Sherwood and Colin Mochrie trapped Rove into performing his infamous M.C. Rove rap/dance:
So there I was, flailing around and living up to the saying about Norwegians: they don't dance, they twitch. That night, I twitched as hard as I could.
Afterward, as he fled the stage, "Speaker Pelosi's face conveyed abject horror, as if she had seen a favorite family pet slaughtered." I haven't yet come across the passage where Rove reveals how he learned what people's faces look like when seeing the family pet slaughtered, but I somehow suspect the story will involve Dick Cheney.
Oh, my mind has been reeling as I've swiftly perused this book. Consider these several shocking revelations: Harriet Miers would have been a terrific Supreme Court Justice; Bush's tax cuts were terrific for the economy; invading Iraq was the right thing to do; Bush was calm and in control on 9/11; Joe Wilson was a stinking liar; and Bush took an unfair bad rap after Katrina because because Roy Nagin is no Rudy Giuliani.
Perhaps there will be some major revelations to spring from the 500+ pages of this book, but my quick initial perusal is finding a lot of blame-casting and predictable self-justification.
I'll bet you can hardly wait for Bush to publish his book!