{"id":8392,"date":"2006-09-06T13:59:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T17:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8392.html"},"modified":"2006-09-06T13:59:39","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T17:59:39","slug":"did-karl-rove-get-exorcized-about-hillarys-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/did-karl-rove-get-exorcized-about-hillarys-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Karl Rove get ‘exorcized’ about Hillary’s office?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veteran Texas journalists Wayne Slater and James Moore raised a lot of eyebrows with their bestselling book about Karl Rove, Bush’s Brain<\/i>, a couple of years ago. And from the sound of it, their next book should be just as interesting. It’s called The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Some of the tidbits<\/a> are personal in nature (Rove was reportedly raised in California by his gay father), others professional (he was so paranoid about his meetings with Jack Abramoff that he’d walk to a nearby street corner where they would discuss business through a lowered car window).<\/p>\n

But for my money, this<\/i> is the funny one.<\/p>\n

Soon after Rove moved into his new office in the West Wing, previously occupied by Hillary Clinton, he invited three top Catholic priests to conduct a ceremony to purge the room of evil spirits. “It was an actual liturgical ceremony,” says participant Deal Hudson. “We sat at the table, we prayed. A priest said a series of prayers, including a blessing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Admittedly, this seems a little far fetched. Karl Rove has proven himself to an amoral svengali, not someone genuinely concerned about “evil spirits.”<\/p>\n

That said, the book doesn’t quote an anonymous source; it quotes Deal Hudson, a former top Bush political adviser on outreach to Roman Catholics. As Andrew Sullivan noted<\/a>, Hudson “is not likely to make this up.”<\/p>\n

Is this possibly true? And if so, what does it tell us about the Bush gang?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Veteran Texas journalists Wayne Slater and James Moore raised a lot of eyebrows with their bestselling book about Karl Rove, Bush’s Brain, a couple of years ago. And from the sound of it, their next book should be just as interesting. It’s called The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power. Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}