Once Bitten
Karl Rove, the power behind the throne, is
being
blamed for the treaso
nous smear campaign
agains
t the CIA
investigator J
oseph
Wilson who
called him on hi
s
Iraq-Nig
er-Uranium
fantasies. I
t seems Rove’s been in trouble before for dirt
y tricks, and ba
ck in 1992 he even use
d the same propagandizing journalist, Robert Novak, as he did for the recent CIA outing.
Rove was fired from the 1992 Bush Sr. campaign for trashing Robert Mosbacher, Jr., who was the chief fundraiser for the campaign and an avowed Bush loyalist. Rove accomplished this trashing of Mosbacher by planting a negative story with columnist Bob Novak. The campaign figured out that Karl had done the dirty deed, and he was given his walking papers.