Schadenfreude: Go Watch A Video Of Karl Rove...

... (figuratively) eating his hat, without mustard (YouTube), on the air on Fox as the call for Obama is made and then explicitly confirmed. Priceless! (H/T TPM.)

(Well, that sucks. The video has a Share link, but the resulting video frame won't play. Just click through on the above link labeled 'TPM'. Grrrr...)

(Fixed. There's an equivalent YouTube out there; the first link above now points to it. The TPM article associated with its video still has some interesting material in it, so I'll leave it linked. But fuck 'em for making their video so inaccessible!)

Of Unicorns And Karl Rove

Josh Marshall quotes Karl Rove:

With the election three days off, a growing chorus of Republican operatives and pundits are saying Sandy may be the game changer. Karl Rove says it’s turning out to be the “October surprise.”

“If you hadn’t had the storm, there would have been more of a chance for the [Mitt] Romney campaign to talk about the deficit, the debt, the economy. There was a stutter in the campaign. When you have attention drawn away to somewhere else, to something else, it is not to his [Romney’s] advantage,” told the Post in an interview published late last night.

Days ago Dick Morris predicted a 400+ EV Romney landslide. Now he thinks Sandy may undo Romney.

Let’s translate this from CYA-ese: I was right. Romney was winning. But that was before Sandy, the Mitt-slaying anti-Unicorn which changed everything. So, just to be clear, I was right, Romney wins. Except then there was Sandy, which no one could have predicted, so he doesn’t win. Bummer.

Poor Karl Rove. Poor, poor Karl Rove! Other people faced Sandy and lost their lives. Many faced Sandy and lost their homes and other valuable possessions. Karl faced Sandy from a distance and may... may... lose an election. And he still has a chance of stealing it. Bastard motherfucker should just shut his fucking mouth!

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(Google "Sandy unicorn" for the odd incident that led to the whole "unicorn" meme. Or just view this YouTube. It's nothing to get excited about, but we've reached the point of giddiness...)