Jilani reports: "Last night, former Bush official Karl Rove appeared at Johns Hopkins University to speak as a part of the annual Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium. Rove soon discovered that he wasn't going to deliver his right-wing rhetoric unopposed, as a cry of 'Mic Check!' rang out among the audience. 'Karl Rove is the architect of Occupy Iraq, the architect of Occupy Afghanistan!' yelled the demonstrators. Occupy Baltimore had infiltrated the crowd and began chanting against Rove."
Karl Rove gets Mic Checked at Johns Hopkins University during a speaking engagment, 11/17/11. (photo: Occupy Baltimore)
Karl Rove Flips Out at Protesters
16 November 11
#OccupyBaltimore Mic Checks Karl Rove
Karl Rove flips out at protesters: 'Who gave you the right to Occupy America?'
ast night, former Bush official Karl Rove appeared at Johns Hopkins University to speak as a part of the annual Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium. Rove soon discovered that he wasn't going to deliver his right-wing rhetoric unopposed, as a cry of "Mic Check!" rang out among the audience.
"Karl Rove is the architect of Occupy Iraq, the architect of Occupy Afghanistan!" yelled the demonstrators. Occupy Baltimore had infiltrated the crowd and began chanting against Rove. "Who gave you the right to occupy America?" asked Rove to the protesters, apparently unaware of the Bill of Rights. As they repeated their slogan, "We are the 99 percent!" Rove petulantly responded, "No you're not!" He snidely added, "You wanna keep jumping up and yelling that you're the 99 percent? How presumptuous and arrogant can you think are!"
About 15 protesters were asked to leave and some were forcibly removed. No one was arrested.
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Good for the protesters atleast they called it as it really is, not what the turd blossom wants it to be...you can tell I really cant stand this guy. He is a pompous ass!!
GOP stands for Greedy One Percent!!
NEVER EVER VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!
Yeah I know, I was just so irritated I said NO ONE, I should have said NO RATIONAL PEOPLE want to hear his garbage. My typo, I just really cant stand this guy! :-)
This Chicken Hawk is just one of the group of neocons who took over our gov't in 2001. Chicken Hawks don't go to war, they just make war and send other peoples children to die.
MIKE CHECK!
Now thats an idea! I will see what I can do.
They need to hear that most of us aren't buying their obnoxious crap.
That said, it was pure delight to see this bozo caught off-guard and without ant pre-prepared responses in hand. "Who gave you the right to occupy America?" Why, I did, Mr. Rove. You are of course welcome to stop by and try to evict me at your convenience. And when you do, I'll have your tight little corked butt in jail for anything I can think of while the International Criminal Court and other concerns continue their investigations.
He is going to smug out of the other side of his lipstick because his days aren't merely numbered. His days are gone.
Indeed! Rove's days are long since past. He still holds power at the whim of the Uber-Wealthy, the .01%! And the Uber Wealthy are losing their grip on power over us. I predict this could eventually get very ugly because Uber-Wealth will fight losing power to the People.
Who gave him the right to walk around outside of prison walls?
The same thing that gives our actual elected leaders the rights and abilities to push forward with their perverted ideas, and that power is bestowed upon them by: the Super-Ultra-Uber and FLITHY Rich! There is no need to be American or even the need to vote if you are Super Rich, as long as you have wealth you can effect change in your favor! There is no tangible quality to being Rich.
Dear #Progressive Patriot:
The Supreme Court of the United States gives Rove that right by refusing judicially to review the conflict of laws BETWEEN the constitutionall y protected status of the territorial sovereignty of "foreign Nations and Indian tribes" within the meaning of the Constitution's commerce clause, that delegates to the federal government jurisdiction to regulate trade subject to the defence and treaty clauses’ preclusion of invasion or entry other than in self defence or with written consent AND the Appropriations Act of 1871 and the War Powers Act of 1973 that enlarge the federal jurisdiction to the plenary or sovereign power to enter or invade at will. Ordinary legislation is presumed to be constitutional until the Supreme Court declares otherwise, which it is required to do by its original jurisdiction clause. The Court’s willful blindness to the conflict of laws gives Aid and Comfort to the Enemies of the Republic who have replaced constitutional democracy with unconstitutiona l empire, which is to say the Treason is the Court’s not Roves’.
Of course the Snake didn't kill democracy by himself, but he was certainly always there orchestrating chaos in the background.
Humour usually negates Rove types their influence greatly. No body wants to support stupidity do they? Unfortunately there are some who always will.Usually a crazy dumb minority I like to think. However when I see the republican support base I despair of my fellow Americans. Seems the Mad men like Rove that promote crazy Republicans can fool the people all of the time. However the best way to negate their influence I think is humour. That is a way to make the lunatic fringe ineffective.
Rove is currently using his formidable political skills, and even more formidable lists of donors, to promote congressional candidates nationwide. That is what everyone else should be doing as well.
It's all about Congress in 2012! Forget the White House. Support, and work for, progressive Democratic congressional candidates in 2012!
Hope Karl Rove and the 1%ers he has enabled for so long (he and Cheney and Rice being the evil frontal lobes and caretaker of the learning disabled, puppet whore named 'W', etc.), now get it that folks all over the country and world get what has been and still is going on today in the U.S. of (greed and power) A.(ddiction).
We the 99% want no more more karlroved, bushwhacked, kochsucked pols, in the oval office, Congess, and state/city offices. Greedy Old Party GOPers, and Don't Explain Much Dems., had better wake up. Truth overcomes all the karlroving dirty tricks out there, and word of mouth is more potent in spreading truth than all the Faux News mess media, and govt. operative (a.k.a. spook)'enslave via cop brutality' police state caca that the villainaire rulers and their bought out, karlroving minions can come up with.
Go, Occupy Wall Street, GO AND GROW!
in that venue was clearly backing Rove, in fact armed with a microphone Rove effectively disarmed the protesters. OWS may be better served by avoiding gatherings of 1%ers by 1%ers. By itself this episode was a PR failure.
doctors 1% wannabes and would never bite the hand that feeds them
Karl Rove is a total asshole, an evil bastard, and represents thousands and millions of other evil bastards as well.
He's just flaunting his immunity and rubbing our nose in the fact that he got away with "it." If you don't feel like expressing disgust for his very continuing presence (he should be flagellating himself in a cave in Tibet) I fear for your moral sense.
As to the audience, it is easy to see they are either part of the problem or consider themselves to belong to the "privileged."
A little interruption was not a disruption and he was able to spew his bile thanks to "the strong arm of the law"
-Absolutely. People like him have bought that immunity at our expense.
Well-well; First Amendment bent over the knee of reaction again.
Y'know Karl Rove is one of those who would have freedom of speech ripped away from us all via the nefarious "Patriot Act" and revisiting COINTELPRO, working from the shadows to deprive dissidents against his punitive agenda of their rights to protest and jail, torture or even disappear them to bring the corporate state into full flower unopposed. Is that what you want?
He got what he deserved, only too short.
Rove, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld should have been on trial for war crimes long ago. "Occupy Iraq," as the protesters were yelling. Let's hope there is still a chance for justice for an invasion of another country based on the lies told to the public. The world is watching us, but we have failed to do so yet. We should.
The little CAPON...
The proper response is to look at the REVENUE side of growth in the deficit. The Bush tax cuts for the 1% is by far, the biggest contributor to the deficit. Every equation has TWO sides. Let's not forget about it.
NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN !!
he should be forced to face the people for his part in the crushing of our national reputation and the banishing of many of our national dreams to the hell we are facing today
Rove is under the false belief that this is the land of Kings and he is somehow a part of it. What he doesn't understand (and will not understand) is that this is a country that was designed for and by The People, not for and by business.
Sometimes you have to stand up to power not in a line, but out of order. Rove doesn't like things going someone else's way and it is quite evident in this video.
When compared to people like rove, saying "We are the 99% is a gross understatement". Not many people own lear jets and their own PACK committing millions of dollars in secret money to the cause of evil.
Then again, a lot more than 1% have voted for rove in the past decade. Make no mistake about it, wherever a repugnican is up for election, ROVE is the candidate.
Let them get on the defensive about THAT! It's pretty obvious the 99% are the shouters. It's pretty obvious what the message is. The AP ain't gonna report it anyway.
Shouting "USA!" at rove and making him step down and get angry might get the AP's attention.
protesting their invitation to Karl rove to speak at a well known and respected medical university. I am sure you could get many posters and others to sign it.
It's time the 99% voiced their opinions on such matters and were heard.
As for Rove...he should do the perp walk!!
Then the 1% audience can clap for removing people who love our country more than they do.
We represent a huge majority. There's no reason we shouldn't be able to use THEIR OWN STRATEGIES like this against them.
So no doubt any more that we, the 99% really exist!
No way the main stream media can belittle the reality of this huge decentralized grassroots movement. Occupy has arrived!
Thanks Carl for that public acknowledgement .
These tactics serve the right just fine. We're co-opting their tactics and using them to fight for the good guys for a change.
He is incapable of imparting anything of intrinsic value to either faculty, staff or students and simply bloviates on behalf of the looney right, the war machine and the corporate state.
He is a true PUBLIC ENEMY and should be hounded out of all attempts to pollute any publicly funded or even ivy-league institution involved in imparting knowledge for the education of young people.
Heckle and hound the bastards back into their narrow cages, preferably jails (privately-run of course)!
Want to use their brains. Give them food for thought. Many a good professor would use this forum of Rove for his next day pop quiz. Not all those seats were those pro Rove.
This guy is BEYOND debate, too arrogant to change. I posit that he and his ilk would in fact have debate, dissident speech and action blotted from the abilities of those who push back against he and his corporate state agenda (hate to repeat myself but there it is).
Translation: "You're either with us or against us." Where have I heard that before? Any movement that will not reflect on its tactics is following a well traveled path.
If we fail to recognize these narcissistic sociopaths like bush, gingrich, et al. then America is doomed.
"Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator."
Worthy of mention is that Milton Eisenhower was the brother of and adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who warned us in his exit speech on 1/17/61, "... we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable CITIZENRY can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.
OWS, we, should be at Democratic functions also, they are to blame for their ignoring current problems. All should be held accountable to be fair. If we are not taking sides, show up at all meetings. Have your say
No one has to stay home, you can all go and do what you feel can raise awareness.
Thanks for the heads up, KittatinyHawk! Silence IS tacit agreement.
That's what should happen to those who snub Senatorial subpoenas. Shame on the Senate that didn't have the courage to follow up.
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