From the New York Times:
Put celebrity environmental activists in a room with top Bush
administration officials and a meeting of the minds could result.
At least that is a theoretical possibility.
The more likely outcome is that an argument will break out, as
it did at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on
Saturday night between Karl Rove, the president's deputy chief
of staff, and the singer Sheryl Crow and Laurie David, a major
Democratic donor and a producer of the global warming do***entary
featuring Al Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth."
Rove isn't telling his side of the story publicly, so we'll let the ladies
give their version, from a Puffington Host post:
In his attempt to dismiss us, Mr. Rove turned to head toward
his table, but as soon as he did so, Sheryl reached out to
touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, "Don't touch me."
How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse
to be touched by Sheryl Crow?
Unfazed, Sheryl abruptly responded, "You can't speak to us like
that, you work for us." Karl then quipped, "I don't work for
you, I work for the American people." To which Sheryl promptly
reminded him, "We are the American people."
At that point Mr. Rove apparently decided he had had enough.
Like a groundhog fearful of his own shadow, he scurried to his
table in an attempt to hibernate for another year from his
responsibility to address global warming.
How, you may wonder, did these people end up in the same room together?
The
Times explains:
Ms. Crow was at the dinner as a guest of Bloomberg News. Ms.
David and her husband, Larry David, a creator of "Seinfeld,"
were guests of CNN. Mr. Rove was a guest of The New York Times.
New Mexico recently outlawed cockfighting, leaving Louisiana the only
remaining state to uphold this rather barbaric tradition. For those who
like
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