{"id":195847,"date":"2008-06-10T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/10\/bush-fired-rove-in-church\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:21:00","slug":"bush-fired-rove-in-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/10\/bush-fired-rove-in-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Fired Rove In Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boy, the Avignon president is a <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3ma7rf\">really classy guy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you\u2019re going to fire someone, you want to make sure you do it in a place where the now-unemployed can\u2019t make a scene.<\/p>\n<p>You know\u2026a place like, say, a church.<\/p>\n<p>That, according to a new book \u2013 \u201cMachiavelli\u2019s Shadow\u201d \u2013 by former Time magazine reporter Paul Alexander, is where President George W. Bush informed trusted advisor Karl Rove in 2007 that his services would no longer be needed at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn a Sunday in midsummer, George W. Bush accompanied Karl Rove to the Episcopalian Church Rove sometimes attended,\u201d writes Alexander. \u201cThey made their way to the front of the congregation. Then, during their time in the church, Bush gave Rove some stunning news. \u2018Karl,\u2019 Bush said, \u2018there\u2019s too much heat on you. It\u2019s time for you to go.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that Rove is a screamer, and Bush was afraid that he would be shouted at.<\/p>\n<p>But according to the Republican party, Bush is really brave for sending soldiers to die in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>Boy&#8230;Firing a man in church because you were afraid he would be angry with you?  Bush is one classy dude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy, the Avignon president is a really classy guy: If you\u2019re going to fire someone, you want to make sure you do it in a place where the now-unemployed can\u2019t make a scene. You know\u2026a place like, say, a church. That, according to a new book \u2013 \u201cMachiavelli\u2019s Shadow\u201d \u2013 by former Time magazine reporter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,978,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}