The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Tuesday, November 09, 2004  

KARL ROVE: STILL SPEAKING IN CODE
The White House Tailor Who Dare Not Be Named

Here's White House puppeteer Karl Rove "solving" the mystery of President Dowager's Hump ("Kerry's Votes Key to Bush Win, Rove Says," by Deb Riechmann, Salon.com):

Rove said the president's tailor was devastated about a controversy over a box-shaped bulge in Bush's back that television cameras captured during the first debate. The mysterious bulge spawned speculation that Bush aides were feeding the president advice secretly through a radio receiver tucked under his suit jacket.

"Nothing was under his jacket," Rove said.

"The poor tailor . . . he's an awfully nice fellow, he's a rather flamboyant dude," Rove said. "I'm not going to use his name, but he's just -- he's horrified. And, you know, it's -- there was nothing there."

Devastated. Rather flamboyant. I'm not going to use his name. Horrified.

Get it?

Can't Republicans speak in anything other than code words?

[On a somewhat related note, see also: "Don't Blame the Gays," by Michelangelo Signorile, New York Press, November 9.]

[Post-publication addendum (November 10): Reader M.P. of Zanesville, Ohio, writes: "Hah! The reason they won't use his name is that it's French. Georges de Paris. Forty years he's tailored for the White House, and this is the thanks he gets?"]

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