{"id":2445862,"date":"2019-06-30T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/why-give-karl-rove-a-platform-at-aspen-ideas\/"},"modified":"2019-07-01T07:49:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T13:49:35","slug":"why-give-karl-rove-a-platform-at-aspen-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/why-give-karl-rove-a-platform-at-aspen-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Why give Karl Rove a platform at Aspen Ideas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Nobody yelled, \u201cF-you\u201d at Karl Rove while walking in Aspen in 2008 as <a id=\"N0x1f42840N0x1f0db40:N0x1f42840N0x1fe6670\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/aspen-ideas-reporters-notebook-conservatives-barb-aspen-crowd\/\">he told the Ideas audience<\/a> last week. They actually yelled, \u201cGo home!\u201d Slight difference, but I get his point: Liberals are abusive and intolerant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Aspen Institute should be ashamed for giving Karl Rove, or anyone from either party who parade as \u201cpolitical strategists,\u201d a platform and credibility. He is the best of the dirty-tricks hit-men whose job it is to win elections at any cost. Gerrymandering, lying about John Kerry\u2019s war record and blaming liberals and environmentalists for everything are just a few of his tricks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Karl Rove and David Azerrad both insulted the audience? This is what the Aspen Institute thinks is appropriate? Bringing respectable conservative speakers is fine, but our country needs leadership and healing for us all. Don\u2019t feed us Rove, Azerrad and their 20-year-old sham narrative about liberals. (And don\u2019t get me started on Chris Christie, that cheeseburger.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Jim Paussa<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Snowmass Village<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/why-give-karl-rove-a-platform-at-aspen-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody yelled, \u201cF-you\u201d at Karl Rove while walking in Aspen in 2008 as he told the Ideas audience last week. They actually yelled, \u201cGo home!\u201d Slight difference, but I get his point: Liberals are abusive and intolerant. The Aspen Institute should be ashamed for giving Karl Rove, or anyone from either party who parade as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 14:15:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445873,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445862\/revisions\/2445873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}