E Pluribus Unum

Sid Blumenthal watched Rove on Meet The Press and then cuts to the chase:

Rove thrashed around in search of an appropriate character from fiction to describe his ineffable and immortal being. "I'm Moby Dick," he began, but, dissatisfied with identifying himself as the great white whale, drew upon his wellspring of literature for yet other self-projections. "Let's face it. I mean, I'm a myth, and they're -- you know, I'm Beowulf. You know, I'm Grendel. I don't know who I am. But they're after me."

Hunted and hunter, beast and warrior, author of his own tale nonetheless suffering an identity crisis, a figure transcendent beyond history still pursued down dark alleys, Rove finally rested on a note of paranoia. If the demons were after him, what would he not do to punish them?

Oddly enough, I had just read a short post on Karl Rove's father last night. The guy was a real freakazoid -- so much so, that Miss Julie even had a brief pang of compassion for the young KR.

Moving on, Joan Walsh and Salon dig deep and find that Giuliani's claim that he spent more time at Ground Zero than some of the rescue workers has an interesting postscript:

By our count, Giuliani spent about 58 hours at Yankees games or flying to them in the 40 days between Sept. 25 and Nov. 4, roughly twice as long as he spent at ground zero in the 90 days between Sept. 17 and Dec. 16. By his own standard, Giuliani was one of the Yankees more than he was one of the rescue workers.

Jonah Goldberg and the rest of the NRO crybabies complain that Walsh got it wrong, but she got it right.

Sorry, Jonah, your boy is a serial bragger and exaggerator, and his mouth is going to be the undoing of his campaign, no matter how much you NRO guys try to defend him.

Bottom line: these guys are dangerous. Let's not make the mistake that, because they appear absurd, they can be easily defeated. We made that mistake once already in this young century. Let's not do it again.

They're dangerous and it'll take everything we have to make sure they are driven from public life once and for all.