From Talking Points Memo, a note on Karl Rove's "uppity" take on Obama:
Karl Rove's latest to Republicans about how to message on Obama ...
"Even if you never met him, you know this guy. He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by."
Matthew Yglesias notes the class issues so inartfully wedged into Rove's description:
How many Americans have had the experience of being at a country club and watching some dude with a beautiful date hold a martini and smoke a cigarette? Certainly I haven't. Rove assumes that "you know this guy" but unless "you" are a wealthy person from the past, you probably don't know a guy like that.
Well, I don't know "a guy like that," though I imagine he's a Republican if he's hanging around a country club waiting for his tee time. But if you change a couple things around:
Even if you never met him, you know this guy. He's the guy at the GAY BAR with the TWINKY BOYFRIEND, holding a COSMO and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.
That guy, I know.
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