{"id":396322,"date":"2010-03-06T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/06\/exclusive-in-new-book-rove-says-he-agreed-with-novak-that-joe-wilson-was-an-asshole\/"},"modified":"2010-03-06T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T12:47:00","slug":"exclusive-in-new-book-rove-says-he-%e2%80%9cagreed%e2%80%9d-with-novak-that-joe-wilson-was-an-%e2%80%9casshole%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/396322","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: In new book, Rove says he \u201cagreed\u201d with Novak that Joe Wilson was an \u201casshole\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~r\/mediamatters\/latest\/~3\/zCxL7vw8UxQ\/201003050048\" >EXCLUSIVE: In new book, Rove says he &#8220;agreed&#8221; with Novak that Joe Wilson was an &#8220;asshole&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his forthcoming book, Fox News&#8217; Karl Rove writes that during his infamous July 2003 conversation with the late Robert Novak, Rove &#8220;agreed with Novak&#8217;s assessment&#8221; that Joe Wilson was &#8220;pompous, self-centered, egotistical, and &#8216;an asshole.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Courage and Consequence <\/em>&#8211; which <em>Media Matters for America <\/em>obtained in advance of its March 9 <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fauthors.simonandschuster.com%2FKarl-Rove%2F47652608\">release date<\/a> &#8212; Rove writes that shortly after agreeing with Novak that Wilson was &#8220;an asshole,&#8221; Rove confirmed that he had &#8220;heard&#8221; that Wilson&#8217;s wife worked at the CIA. Days later, Novak published a syndicated column outing Wilson&#8217;s wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA operative.<\/p>\n<p>From Page 328 of Karl Rove&#8217;s <em>Courage and Consequence:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But Novak had turned our conversation to Joe Wilson&#8217;s op-ed after discussing Townsend. He&#8217;d met Wilson in the green room at <em>Meet the Press <\/em>the previous Sunday morning and said he found Wilson pompous, self-centered, egotistical, and &#8220;an asshole.&#8221; Having watched Wilson on <em>Meet the Press, <\/em>I agreed with Novak&#8217;s assessment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/images\/item\/rovebook-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"841\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/images\/item\/rovebook-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"890\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\"> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?a=zCxL7vw8UxQ:7vx_AE2Zy1s:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?a=zCxL7vw8UxQ:7vx_AE2Zy1s:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?i=zCxL7vw8UxQ:7vx_AE2Zy1s:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?a=zCxL7vw8UxQ:7vx_AE2Zy1s:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?a=zCxL7vw8UxQ:7vx_AE2Zy1s:l6gmwiTKsz0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?d=l6gmwiTKsz0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?a=zCxL7vw8UxQ:7vx_AE2Zy1s:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?i=zCxL7vw8UxQ:7vx_AE2Zy1s:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/mediamatters\/latest\/~4\/zCxL7vw8UxQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: In new book, Rove says he &#8220;agreed&#8221; with Novak that Joe Wilson was an &#8220;asshole&#8221; In his forthcoming book, Fox News&#8217; Karl Rove writes that during his infamous July 2003 conversation with the late Robert Novak, Rove &#8220;agreed with Novak&#8217;s assessment&#8221; that Joe Wilson was &#8220;pompous, self-centered, egotistical, and &#8216;an asshole.&#8217; &#8220; In Courage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}