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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:00 AM

The collapse of Karl Rove

The Pygmalion strategist from Texas built up the Republican Party by exploiting the religious right -- and now his handiwork is crumbling.

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  • Tuesday, August 14, 2007 05:31 AM

    Correction

    Interesting article, but I found this a bit jarring:

    ...WallBuilders, a Christian advocacy group working to restore God to His central position in American history, and in the history and social studies curricula of the nation's public schools.

    The way this is written, the author seems to be accepting without qualification the Wallbuilders credo - i.e. that God indeed does have a central position in American history, and deserves the central place in public school classes.

    I suspect that the author does not, in fact, agree with that point.

    Therefore, it would have been more appropriate to (at least) put quotation marks around "restore God ... public schools", to indicate that this is what Wallbuilders themselves claim, but is not necessarily fact.

    Sorry to be going on about such a minor point, but it rankled me.

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