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Well gee whiz.. I am chomping at the bit to know what he said.. Frigging dial-up!

I linked this on a couple of other blogs.

Go take a shower Warwick and crew.

OT - Waxman has scheduled a hearing on the plame affair for March 16 !!

link to announcement at my name.

Too bad there were no hecklers there. As long as the audience was not allowed to ask questions, and as long as the decision was made to give Karl Rove any attention whatsoever, including, in this case, positive attention, that is.

Whole thing is appalling.

How ridiculous that there was no opportunity for questions from the audience. Has there ever been another speaker in this series to whom the audience was forbidden to ask questions?

In our liberal-guilt quest for ecumenicalism, can we look forward to Kenneth Starr as a future speaker? Ann Coulter?

On the one hand, I don't guess we could expect the local school to invite Rove to come and speak and then hit him with all of the good hard questions that need to still be asked: 1) Any knowledge that Libby will get a pardon before Bush leaves office? 2) With two years still in the current administration left, why were you (Rove) cited as having said that Social Security reform is off of the table? 3) The discrediting of Joe Wilson seems to have been in response to his op ed piece, does this administration have a problem with dissent? 4) Are you (Rove) still in charge of New Orleans' (not New Orleans's) reconstruction? If so, how's that going? 5) Isn't the formation of the Faith Based Initiatives through the executive branch just a way to get around previous rulings that maintain the seperation of church and state? 6) Do you fear losing your job, with Bush having stated on the record that he would fire anyone involved with the outing of Joe Wlison's wife? AND 7) Who forged the Yellowcake documents that Joe Wilsom looked into?
Then there's the other hand, where we would be asking for answers to these and other questions that only Mr. Rove knows. C'est la vie!

This is sort of like Ted Bundy showing up at the sorority house after the murders, huh? I'll thank the Clinton School to not invite criminals to speak unless they've served out their sentence.

I'm just glad that Rove and Griffin could keep their hands off each other in public for an hour. I'm sure they're cuddling up now. Was Tim busy looking at black voters in the audience and thinking how he'll squash their vote next time?

What a disgusting time to be an American.....

The questions were submitted by attendees in advance. I received an email that asked for the questions. To be honest, I was surprised that Skip Rutherford did not shy away from asking hard questions. True there was no real follow up, but he did ask hard questions.

This same format was used when Madeleine Albright was here. You could submit questions in advance but the audience was not allowed to ask questions during the event.

Glad to know the questions, albeit screened, did originate with the audience, some of them anyhow. Thanks for the info, stogster.

"...but, yes our intention is to submit a nomination [District Attorney] to Congress for their review and confirmation."

Ok the follow-up should have been
"When will Tim Griffin be reviewed?"

Don't ever send me another of those contribution forms Skip! Never!
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Alas, the Skipper is not an effective interviewer. No follow-ups on all the crap that came out of Rove's ass, oops, mouth.