Barking Moonbats: Rove's Diabolical Plan

Tim Blair excoriates Congressman Maurice Hinchey, who on multiple occasions (most recently on CNN) has espoused the theory that Karl Rove created the bogus Rathergate documents.

It doesn’t take an awful lot of imagination if you’re thinking about who it is that might have produced these false documents to try to mislead people in this very cynical way. It would take someone very brilliant, very cynical, very Machiavellian, and it doesn’t take a lot of imagination to come up with the name of Karl Rove as a possibility of having done that.

This hysterical assertion possesses all the intellectual rigor of modern-day alchemy, performed by Jessica Simpson. In point of fact, this type of unhinged remark has been covered extensively by Charles at LittleGreenFootballs and Sounding the Trumpet, among others.

But only the magnificent Blair has found and reported upon the only known transcript of the conspiracy in the making:

...Using contemporaneous reports and several eye-witness sources, this site is able to reconstruct the events of last August... (Rove enters the Chamber of Destruction and greets his assembled operatives) Rove: Gentlemen. Ladies. Mr. Gannon. Mr. Murdoch. (Various responses: “Hiya!” “Howdy.” “G’day.") Rove: People, you have done good work. You have tirelessly attempted to undermine John Kerry’s bid for the presidency. And yet the latest polling shows that Kerry may still win. (Murmured complaints: “Dang!” “This is soooo not happening.” “Can’t compete with a Magic Hat.") Rove: Silence! I cannot tell you how much this disappoints and angers me. (An assistant appears at Rove’s side with a baseball bat. He is waved away) Rove: But now is not the time for fault-finding, or skull-crushing. Now is the time for action. Serious action. In fact, the most serious action it is possible for us to undertake. Murdoch: You don’t mean ... ? Rove: Yes. It is time for us to deploy the Doomsday Device. (Several reel from the table in shock; two are ill) Rove: Mr. Gannon, please fetch the Device. And put some pants on, for God’s sake. Gannon: Y-yes sir. Right away, Mr. Karl, sir. (Gannon exits the room; the anxious conspirators listen as the sound of several vaults being sequentially opened echoes throughout the Chamber. Presently Gannon returns, carrying a briefcase) Rove: Open it. (Gannon enters the security code—DAILYKOS—and the briefcase springs ajar. Looking away in fear and torment, he nudges the briefcase towards Rove) Rove: And now it is time. Time to unveil our most hideous, most perfect plan. (Rove grips the briefcase with both hands) Do you people truly know of the evil that man can attain? Do you know of the Dark Lord’s majesty? Do you know of a terror so sublime that any lesser atrocity—Salem; the Holocaust; our coming assassination and cannibalism of the Pope—will from this point on make you giggle like little girls? Behold! (Rove removes from the briefcase several sheets of paper. He studies them intently; every eye in the room is trained upon him. Finally, Rove speaks ...) Rove: This is the frickin’ Doomsday Device? A bunch of bogus National Guard memos? What the hell? Clarence Thomas: Well, what we thought we’d do, see, was hand these over to the media and ... Rove: Oh, come on! These are dated 1972 but they’re in Microsoft Word! Hellloooo! You think anybody in their right mind will fall for these? Oh, look here; you haven’t even changed the default settings! Why, I could type these up at home! Ann Coulter: With respect, sir, the plan was to ... Rove: Plan? Plan? Listen, legs, this plan wouldn’t fool a Kennedy! Or a crack-addicted homeless person! This so-called plan wouldn’t rate a segment on Air America! This plan I’m looking at wouldn’t be posted at Democratic goddamn Underground! This half-assed, retard plan isn’t worth the ... Hugh Hewitt: Actually, we were thinking of giving the memos to Dan Rather. Rove: Proceed.

Tim Blair: Rove's Diabolical Plan