Sorry, Karl Rove of course IS a Nazi, as is the rest of the "consrvative movement.

Richard Hofstadter had Rove and the rest of the modern GOP figured out 40 years ago when he wrote:

"It can most accurately be called pseudo-conservative -- I borrow the term from the study of The Authoritarian Personality published five years ago by Theodore W. Adorno and his associates -- because its exponents, although they believe themselves to be conservatives and usually employ the rhetoric of conservatism, show signs of a serious and restless dissatisfaction with American life, traditions and institutions"

“Their political reactions express rather a profound and largely unconscious hatred of our society and its ways -- a hatred which one would hesitate to impute to them if one did not have suggestive clinical evidence ... The pseudo-conservative, Adorno writes, shows 'conventionality

and authoritarian submissiveness' in his conscious thinking and 'violence, anarchic impulses, and chaotic destructiveness in the unconscious sphere…… The pseudo conservative is a man who, in the name of upholding traditional American values and institutions and defending them against more or less fictitious dangers, consciously or unconsciously aims at their abolition.'"

This is a classic descriptio of the Fascist.

The reason Karl Rove uses the word "traitor" as he does is because he knows it describes him.

Rove and the rest of the scum are exactly like the Nazis. Eichman was a bland little nerd, too, as was Himmler, and even old Adolf himself.

I hope he dies a lingering, excruciatingly painful death for which there is not enough painkiller to assuage, or a socially-unacceptable disease, in anonymity.

It's nothing that worthless piece of shit doesn't deserve.

General Betrayus is just another of what my old friend the late David Hackworth used to call the "Perfumed Princes of Versailles-on-the-Potomac." This guy is to actual American generals who won World War II as a cockroach is to a human being. He and the rest of the "leaders" of the Imperial Legions are a disgrace to their uniforms, who long ago forgot the oath they took at West Point to never lie and never tolerate among themselves those who do.

His name isn't Petraeus, it's Betrayus. He long ago forgot his West Point oath to "neither lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate among us those who do." But that's how you become one of what my old friend David Hackworth used to call "the perfumed princes of Versailles-on-the-Potomac."

One is supposed to be surprised when pinstriped corporate pimps act like pinstriped corporate pimps?

Someone is surprised that Dianne Feinstein is a clueless right wing Democrat? All you have to do is look at her 38-year career, going back to when she was first elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors - which is why the only time I have ever voted for her was that first time, when nobody knew how bad she is.

As a long-time denizen of Okeefenokee West, aka Hollywierd, I am only surprised that it's taken this long for the truth about Hollywood to become the norm on the screen.

Starting when the boys club of the Harvard Crimson were "discovered" in the late 70s, Hollywood as year by year become more and more what my old friend David Freeman described in his collection of short stories, "A Hollywood Education", 25 years ago as "the last respectable outlaw profession for upper-class white boys."

I became aware of the phenomenon about 15 years ago when - as a graduate of the Roger Corman Film School - I dropped back by the old school for a visit with friends. Previously, when one drove into the parking garage, one was confronted with a sea of cheap used cars - people used to joke at work about whether their car would get them home that night and if it did, would it return them in the morning. Instead, the garage was filled with BMW 323s, Mercedes 180s, Volvos, Saabs, etc. And inside the building all the Ivy League film brats were were working for free, as "interns." Before, people got paid. Not much, but you could live on it, and while you did you had the opportunity to learn by doing there. I would say the roster of graduates of that system is mighty impressive, even when you're not listing the super-stars.

The pheonomenon of the trust-fund babies coming to Hollywood where they work for free while nbetworking means that people who don't have that background have real trouble breaking in - it's hard to do the meeting and the greeting when you're waiting tables or working in a phone center, or any of the myriad other jobs open to Wannabees Without Money.

The result is - given that writers "write what they know" - that what is depicted on-screen is the life of the upper classes. That's who's writing it, choosing to produce it, direct it, and everything else!!

So there's your explanation, of not only TV, but why bad TV gets recycled into bad movies (film school brats have no previous lives other than watching TV and movies), why the movies are "product", and why you watch less of all of it.