Taibbi Highlights RE: Rove & the Maverick

1. "[McCain] actually went out and hired Tucker Eskew, one of the architects of Rove's smear campaign in South Carolina back in 2000, a man who McCain once said had a 'special place in hell' awaiting him in the next world."

2. "[T]he McCain camp can now create controversies out of thin air by arguing with itself on national television, turning premeditated, planted comments by the 'independent journalist' Karl Rove into 'attacks' from the 'angry left.'"

3. "Rove is not a genius, or even very clever: He's totally and completely immoral. It doesn't take genius to claim, as Rove ludicrously did last fall, that it was the Democrats in Congress and not George W. Bush who pushed the Iraq War resolution in 2002. It doesn't take brains to compare a triple-amputee war veteran to Osama bin Laden; you just have to be a mean, rotten cocksucker."

4. "[T]his generation of Americans has become so steeped in greed and social Darwinism that it can no longer distinguish between cheating and achieving, between enterprise and crime, and can't bring itself to criticize winners any more than it knows how to be nice to losers."