Karl Rove: “Just get me a fucking faith based thing.”

Brian Zick

Keith Olbermann quotes conservative author David Kuo, in part 2 of his review of Kuo's new book Tempting Faith. The former #2 man in the Bush administration’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives described how Rove gave a volunteer less than one week to create the entire Faith-Based program. The volunteer asked how to do that, with no staff, no office and no plan. "Rove looked at him, took a deep breath, and said, 'I don't know. Just get me a fucking faith-based thing. Got it?'" Norm at onegoodmove has the video.

The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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