Karl Rove Wants You To Know He Can Do 20 Push-Ups

Former Bush senior adviser Karl Rove is settling plenty of scores in his new book, Courage and Consequences—and former Secretary of State Colin Powell is one of his targets. ABC News reports that Rove used his brute upper body power to get back at the general in 2004—by way of doing twenty push-ups.

According to Rove, Powell didn't like him very much and how he was so involved in policy:

"I could tell when Powell was annoyed at me, because he would address me as 'Private Rove' and order me to drop and give him twenty push-ups... I usually laughed off Powell's occasional sarcastic greeting, but on May 27, 2004, with Powell irritated at me over something now long forgotten, I followed orders.

I dropped and gave him twenty push-ups. Right at the entrance of the Oval Office. I could tell it had unsettled him as he nervously encouraged me to stop and get up. But I finished, then jumped to attention and saluted. Powell was rattled. He had an awkward smile. Mine was real. It was the last time Powell ever asked me to drop and give him twenty."

Rove also denies being former president Bush's brain: "I’ve known him for almost four decades. He is a really smart person. To suggest that I was his brain is derogatory about him."

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By Jen Chung in News on March 5, 2010 9:49 AM

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chuzzlewit

careful you don't sprain your moral compass there, big fella.

Helen Thomas knows the score

what kind of society do we live in when a chicken hawk of a man, who helped start an unnecessary war, for the profit of a few, thats cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people can write a book Courage and Consequences and walk around a free man with no consequences?

I'm disgusted by this man. Media. Gothamist. I suggest you remind people who Rove is every time you mention his name. Our goverment may be corrupt, but in theory we're supposed to be in control of the press, right?