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.
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Scott Macaulay
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