I am going to be [even more] insufferable:
NB: Let's get some more media questions. So what's your media diet like nowadays?
ROVE: You mean on an ordinary day?
NB: Yeah.
ROVE: I get Mike Allen's overnight summary from Politico, I cruise RealClearPolitics.com, I get Taranto from the Wall Street Journal, I visit the Corner. I check Drudge, I check Fox News, I have a list of favorites that I sort of thumb through if I've got the time. I obviously read papers, the New York Times; the Wall Street Journal; when in Washington, the Washington Post if not, I get it online. I check out, most days, Instapundit, Power Line, Hugh Hewitt. Occasionally I'll dip into Just One Minute or visit the Captain's Quarters, I check out Michael Barone's blog, and I look forward to getting Opinion Journal, and I get the NCPA summary. And I also get a news summary, a news clip early in the morning of all the clips.
I am delighted to be judged by the company I am keeping here, and the readers that are stopping by.
lol.
Tom: You know he really comes here because of Clarice and Jane, don't you?
Don't you?
Posted by: centralcal | March 22, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Heh--He comes because of Soylent and FNL and you all know it.. It's where the bald man gets all his ideas for world domination. He's helpless without us.
Posted by: clarice | March 22, 2008 at 12:07 PM
And we are quite pleased about that! He is, after all, a magnificent bastard!
Posted by: Jane | March 22, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Or---just maybe--*wink* he was drawn by someone's 70% chance of conviction prediction/ (dunking and running)
Posted by: clarice | March 22, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Tom - It's no wonder Karl speaks highly of you, as you were one of the smartest members of his defense team. In fact, I'd go so far as to call you the sharpest tool in the shed.
Posted by: obsessed | March 22, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Before we get all fat-headed, note that he may never click on the comments, and if so, only reads Tom's stuff and misses all of our brilliant, scintillating, incisive commentary. Not to mention the mud-wrestling taunts!
(killjoy. yep. it's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it.)
Posted by: cathyf | March 22, 2008 at 12:23 PM
Many congratulations, TM.
Posted by: Elliott | March 22, 2008 at 12:25 PM
what? you guys didn't know I was Karl?
Posted by: windansea | March 22, 2008 at 12:29 PM
I heard that too, cathyf.
Posted by: Elliott | March 22, 2008 at 12:29 PM
As I wrote last night, inside word is that he comes because there are commenters who provide extensive quotes from articles on important subjects--especially articles like Clive Crook's WEALTH OF NATIONS: By Any Means Necessary that can tie the race based campaign together with the credit crisis:
Posted by: anduril | March 22, 2008 at 12:30 PM
You do get around, windansea. Making waves everywhere I look.
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Posted by: kim | March 22, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Two things caught my attention about Karl's list:
1) Our daily readings have a 60% daily overlap and an 80% weekly overlap.
2) No newspapers except a "dash" of NY Times and Washington Post.
Posted by: sbw | March 22, 2008 at 01:03 PM
Real clear politics panics and deletes. Those blogs don't allow comments. JOM is the only one where you can just comment. So, Rove, having figured where the real internet future is, mentions JOM.
The MATRIX was Lexus Nexus. It's really better than the internet, you can live this real cool life and it's not dreaming and everyone works for you and everything. You fight the evil FED men and everybody helps. Why bother with the internet and the rest of it?
Posted by: KJH | March 22, 2008 at 01:43 PM
I love all the comments on JOM, and I've often thought Rush might comment here with an alias. There is always such great wit and and insight, I'm Clarice's biggest fan (and smile at her typos) and Jane, but Other Tom and many others too....
Kudos Mr. McGuire, but after all you were Time's Man of the Year!
Posted by: JOM FAN | March 22, 2008 at 01:45 PM
But you are deceived. If Rove were a true genius he's drop by every day.
Posted by: PrestoPundit | March 22, 2008 at 01:58 PM
JOM FAN: Kudos Mr. McGuire
MaGuire, Not McGuire. My first contact with JOM was a pointer from Glenn Reynolds. I disagreed. Wrote why in my blog and referenced it here. Tom read it, commented, and chided me for mispelling his name. ;-)
Posted by: sbw | March 22, 2008 at 02:03 PM
Be careful what you wish for. You just made the crazy Left's 10 Mosted Wanted list.
You're obviously a high-ranking member of the VRWC. Fascist.
Posted by: JB | March 22, 2008 at 02:04 PM
I'm a regular, long-time lurker, and I just wanted to say how much I appreciate this blog and its commenters. One question though, what is the meaning of "Go Balloons?" Should I recognize the reference (all I can think of is the wonderful "drop the effing balloons" finale to the Democratic convention in 2004) or is it an inside joke?
Posted by: Blenheim | March 22, 2008 at 02:06 PM
Thanks JOM fan..
Posted by: clarice | March 22, 2008 at 02:07 PM
physics
Posted by: Wgf | March 22, 2008 at 02:16 PM
possibly Balloon-Juice.com
Posted by: boris | March 22, 2008 at 02:32 PM
Go Balloons -- Perhaps TM needed a temporary placeholder after retiring as Time's 2006 Man of the Year and while waiting to be named Time's 2008 Man of the Year.
Posted by: sbw | March 22, 2008 at 02:37 PM
Hey Blenheim, I asked the exact same question about a week ago.
The problem is, I can't remember the answer.
Posted by: Jane | March 22, 2008 at 02:52 PM
Blenheim's guess was the right one--the balloon drop failure at the Dem convention.
Posted by: clarice | March 22, 2008 at 03:03 PM
Before we get all fat-headed, note that he may never click on the comments, and if so, only reads Tom's stuff and misses all of our brilliant, scintillating, incisive commentary. Not to mention the mud-wrestling taunts!
I don't think the mud wrestling has ever emerged, but since I routinely take inspiration from other comments (i.e., steal ideas),this really is a group effort.
Posted by: Tom Maguire | March 22, 2008 at 03:27 PM
We are the Deval Patrick to Tom's Obama.
Posted by: Karl Rove | March 22, 2008 at 03:32 PM
A sock no more belongs on your hand than a foot belongs in your mouth.
But it's fitting I suppose that by willingly choosing the one, I unwittingly inflicted the other upon myself.
::sigh::
Posted by: hit and run | March 22, 2008 at 03:37 PM
Wouldn't it be fun if it we found out it was Rove posting the lucifer/Peace Corps comments?
Posted by: MayBee | March 22, 2008 at 03:46 PM
Maybee
HEH.
Posted by: Topsecretk9 | March 22, 2008 at 03:48 PM
I think the chance that the Magnificent Bastard is reading our posts is probably going to elevate the level of discourse, if that were possible.
Posted by: ben | March 22, 2008 at 04:14 PM
Karl Rove writes Jeremiah Wright's sermons and induces Obama to go to church on certain Sundays, during which the sermons are plain vanilla, well nutless chocolate, anyway. He arranged this so Obama would be surprised at the contents of the sermons as shown on YouTube. Obama is correct that he never heard any inflammatory rhetoric on Sundays. He only admitted to hearing some during his speech on Tuesday because he'd heard a 'Hallelujah' once and mistook it for 'Honkey you you'.
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Posted by: kim | March 22, 2008 at 06:12 PM
Hey, I never see Karl Rove and 'Cleo in the same room at the same time!
Posted by: sbw | March 22, 2008 at 09:36 PM
Karl,
Lose the whiteboard on Fox. It doesn't work on TV.
Posted by: Patrick R. Sullivan | March 23, 2008 at 01:48 PM
Peter,
Does this Ambrose Evans-Pritchard twit have much of a following in the UK? Would you say that the average Brit would know what "notional" meant wrt this type of finance transaction? I know the average American wouldn't know a credit default swap from a keg of beer so I can't imagine that the average Brit is familiar with the intricacies of these deals.
What's this guy's angle? Gen up a higher level of fear? Wasn't that HBOS rumor last week enough?
Posted by: Rick Ballard | March 23, 2008 at 06:33 PM
Rick,
I can't speak to his coverage of the US economy, but Evans-Pritchard did write some terrific Clinton tell-all pieces back in the '90s. Here's one of his books - google Evans-Pritchard and Clinton and you'll find a whole bunch more.
Posted by: Porchlight | March 23, 2008 at 06:55 PM
Thanks, Porchlight. I did some more googling and I still don't understand the Telegraph's decision to allow him to write on this beat. He sure doesn't bring much to the party.
Posted by: Rick Ballard | March 23, 2008 at 07:47 PM
I want to know, Karl, how you got the sun to cool the earth.
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Posted by: kim | March 24, 2008 at 07:15 PM