A Cage Match Between Sheryl Crow and Karl Rove over Climate Change Policy
All Sheryl Crow wanted to do was have some fun --- do you feel pity for Karl Rove? This recounting of their "Lincoln-Douglas" debate is fun reading. If this version is correct, then I think that Ms. Crow won this round. Especially with Earth Day so close, one would think that a shrewd political analyst such as Dr. Rove would have the good sense to pretend that he cares about these issues.
I'm almost impressed with his bad boy front.
This wife of Larry David's appears to believe that she is a causal agent. I rarely
meet such confident people who believe they can change someone's opinion on an issue
through a 5 minute talk. She must be quite a convincing person. I figure that she
lives somewhere in West Los Angeles. Maybe she would like to speak to my UCLA
environmental economics students on a tuesday/thurs from 9am to 10:15am in Public Policy room #2238? My students are a tough/smart bunch and I'd like to see her impact on their thinking. I promise that they would be nicer than Karl Rove.
April 23, 2007
Bush Aide’s Celebrity Meeting Becomes a Global Warming Run-In
By JIM RUTENBERG
WASHINGTON, April 22 — Put celebrity environmental activists in a room with top Bush administration officials and a meeting of the minds could result. At least that is a theoretical possibility.
The more likely outcome is that an argument will break out, as it did at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night between Karl Rove, the president’s deputy chief of staff, and the singer Sheryl Crow and Laurie David, a major Democratic donor and a producer of the global warming documentary featuring Al Gore, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Ms. Crow and Ms. David, who have been visiting campuses in an event billed as the Stop Global Warming College Tour, approached Mr. Rove to urge him to take “a fresh look” at global warming, they explained later.
Recriminations between the celebrities and the White House carried over into Sunday, with Ms. Crow and Ms. David calling Mr. Rove “a spoiled child throwing a tantrum” and the White House criticizing their “Hollywood histrionics.”
“I honestly thought that I was going to change his mind, like, right there and then,” Ms. David said Sunday, The Associated Press reported.
Ms. Crow was at the dinner as a guest of Bloomberg News. Ms. David and her husband, Larry David, a creator of “Seinfeld,” were guests of CNN. Mr. Rove was a guest of The New York Times.
The one thing all three parties agree on is that the conversation quickly became heated.
As Ms. Crow and Ms. David described it on the Huffington Post Web site on Sunday, when Mr. Rove turned toward his table, Ms. Crow touched his arm and “Karl swung around and spat, ‘Don’t touch me.’ ”
Both sides agreed that Ms. Crow told him, “You can’t speak to us like that, you work for us,” to which Mr. Rove responded, “I don’t work for you, I work for the American people.” Ms. Crow and Ms. David wrote that Ms. Crow shot back, “We are the American people.”
In their joint Internet posting, Ms. Crow and Ms. David described Mr. Rove as responding with “anger flaring,” and as having “exploded with even more venom” as their argument continued.
“She came over to insult me,” Mr. Rove said when asked about the encounter on Saturday night, “and she succeeded.”
Mr. Rove did not respond to a request for comment on the women’s written description of the argument on Sunday.
Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman said, “We have respect for the opinions and passion that many people have for climate change.” But, Mr. Fratto said, “I wish the same respect was afforded to the president.”
He accused Ms. Crow and Ms. David of ignoring the administration’s environmental initiatives, like the president’s push for the development of alternative fuels, and for “going after officials with misinformed assertions at a social dinner.”
“It would be better,” Mr. Fratto said, “to set aside Hollywood histrionics and try to help with the problem instead of this baseless, and tasteless, finger pointing.”
I'm almost impressed with his bad boy front.
This wife of Larry David's appears to believe that she is a causal agent. I rarely
meet such confident people who believe they can change someone's opinion on an issue
through a 5 minute talk. She must be quite a convincing person. I figure that she
lives somewhere in West Los Angeles. Maybe she would like to speak to my UCLA
environmental economics students on a tuesday/thurs from 9am to 10:15am in Public Policy room #2238? My students are a tough/smart bunch and I'd like to see her impact on their thinking. I promise that they would be nicer than Karl Rove.
April 23, 2007
Bush Aide’s Celebrity Meeting Becomes a Global Warming Run-In
By JIM RUTENBERG
WASHINGTON, April 22 — Put celebrity environmental activists in a room with top Bush administration officials and a meeting of the minds could result. At least that is a theoretical possibility.
The more likely outcome is that an argument will break out, as it did at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night between Karl Rove, the president’s deputy chief of staff, and the singer Sheryl Crow and Laurie David, a major Democratic donor and a producer of the global warming documentary featuring Al Gore, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Ms. Crow and Ms. David, who have been visiting campuses in an event billed as the Stop Global Warming College Tour, approached Mr. Rove to urge him to take “a fresh look” at global warming, they explained later.
Recriminations between the celebrities and the White House carried over into Sunday, with Ms. Crow and Ms. David calling Mr. Rove “a spoiled child throwing a tantrum” and the White House criticizing their “Hollywood histrionics.”
“I honestly thought that I was going to change his mind, like, right there and then,” Ms. David said Sunday, The Associated Press reported.
Ms. Crow was at the dinner as a guest of Bloomberg News. Ms. David and her husband, Larry David, a creator of “Seinfeld,” were guests of CNN. Mr. Rove was a guest of The New York Times.
The one thing all three parties agree on is that the conversation quickly became heated.
As Ms. Crow and Ms. David described it on the Huffington Post Web site on Sunday, when Mr. Rove turned toward his table, Ms. Crow touched his arm and “Karl swung around and spat, ‘Don’t touch me.’ ”
Both sides agreed that Ms. Crow told him, “You can’t speak to us like that, you work for us,” to which Mr. Rove responded, “I don’t work for you, I work for the American people.” Ms. Crow and Ms. David wrote that Ms. Crow shot back, “We are the American people.”
In their joint Internet posting, Ms. Crow and Ms. David described Mr. Rove as responding with “anger flaring,” and as having “exploded with even more venom” as their argument continued.
“She came over to insult me,” Mr. Rove said when asked about the encounter on Saturday night, “and she succeeded.”
Mr. Rove did not respond to a request for comment on the women’s written description of the argument on Sunday.
Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman said, “We have respect for the opinions and passion that many people have for climate change.” But, Mr. Fratto said, “I wish the same respect was afforded to the president.”
He accused Ms. Crow and Ms. David of ignoring the administration’s environmental initiatives, like the president’s push for the development of alternative fuels, and for “going after officials with misinformed assertions at a social dinner.”
“It would be better,” Mr. Fratto said, “to set aside Hollywood histrionics and try to help with the problem instead of this baseless, and tasteless, finger pointing.”
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