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Friday, March 30, 2007
ROCK AND ROVE 

There on YouTube, a blurry clip of Karl Rove getting down at the Radio-Television Correspondents' Association Dinner. It’s one of those the cultural moments so rich in contradictions and creepiness, that one hardly knows what to say. That the man responsible for emptying social programs decides to steal one more thing – the cultural history of rap? That there is nothing more queasy than Rove leaning back and giving himself a homeboy hug? Or more importantly, that the clip’s appearance on YouTube and hundreds of other sites may not be a moment of digital democratic critique, but rather the final stage in another well-tuned media campaign spun by Rove –– I mean, MC Rove –– himself.


# posted by Peter Bowen @ 3/30/2007 07:33:00 AM
Comments (2)

 
I had heard about this clip before I saw it, and yet I was still shocked and appalled. Almost as nauseous is NBC's David Gregory representing the Fourth Estate up there swaying along.
# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 3/30/2007 10:02 AM  

 
This officially goes on the mantle next to the videos of Saddam being hanged, the Cramps playing in a mental institution, Richard Pryor's insane interview-on-coke, and that holy grail of surreal clips--the Zapruder film--as one of the strangest, and most unsettling things I've seen.

It's not just the sight of hopelessly white neocons aping hip-hop culture, but more the fact that they can laugh and dance at a time when they're responsible for ANALLY RAPING AMERICA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD.
# posted by James @ 3/30/2007 7:14 PM  


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