Yesterday, Karl Rove was interviewed by Robert Siegel on NPR. I just about passed out from shock when I heard the following exchange: (transcript via [raw story](http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/news\/2006\/Rove_dukes_it_out_with_NPR_1025.html))
\n>MR. SIEGEL: We’re in the home stretch, though. And many might consider you on the optimistic end of >realism about —
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\n>MR. ROVE: Not that you would be exhibiting a bias or anything like that. You’re just making a comment.
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\n>MR. SIEGEL: I’m looking at all the same polls that you’re looking at every day.
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\n>MR. ROVE: No you’re not. No you’re not!
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\n>MR. SIEGEL: No, I’m not —
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\n>MR. ROVE: I’m looking at 68 polls a week. You may be looking at four or five public polls a week that talk >about attitudes nationally, but that do not impact the outcome —
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\n>MR. SIEGEL: — name races between — certainly Senate race
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\n>MR. ROVE: Well, like the polls today showing that Corker’s ahead in Tennessee; or the race — polls >showing that Allen is pulling away in the Virginia Senate race.
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\n>MR. SIEGEL: Leading Webb in Virginia. Yes.
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\n>MR. ROVE: Yeah, exactly.
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\n>MR. SIEGEL: Have you seen the DeWine race and the Santorum race and — I don’t want to —
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\n>MR. ROVE: Yeah. Look, I’m looking at all these Robert and adding them up. And I add up to a Republican >Senate and a Republican House. You may end up with a different math, but you’re entitled to your math. >I’m entitled to “the” math.
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\n>MR. SIEGEL: I don’t know if you’re entitled to a different math, but you’re certainly entitled to —
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\n>MR. ROVE: I said you were entitled to yours.
\nYes indeed, the same folks who sneered at the “reality based community” saying that they don’t need to *study* reality because they can just create their own reality apparently feel the same way about math. All of us lowly peons out here are entitled to our own silly little math, but Karl Rove and the Republicans are the only ones who have the *real* math, which seems to say whatever they want it to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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