Bush and Rove: Collaborators in the Theater of the Moral Lie

By Andrew Bard Schmookler

If evil were to take over America, it would have to do it with a smiling face and postures of righteousness. As Karl Rove --perhaps the most pernicious figure in the political history of the United States-- announces his departure from the White House, we do well to look at how he and the destructive president he has served and used collaborated to deceive America with their phony postures of false righteousness.