Rove, Cheney Just Making History Up

The simultaneous arrival of Karl Rove's memoir and Liz Cheney's "right-wing noise machine" means the "revisionist floodgates have opened," writes Frank Rich for the New York Times, a "rewriting of history that knows few bounds." And while Rove's book better passes for fiction and Cheney's "al-Qaeda Seven" attack is a McCarthy-esque smear at best, the Bushies' "non-reality-based schtick" is "relentless and shameless."

"When even the relentless pursuer of Monicagate is moved to call a right-wing jihad 'out of bounds,' as (Kenneth) Starr did" of "al-Qaeda Seven," Rich writes, "that’s a fairly good indicator that it’s way off in crazyland." 'History will be repeated not only if we forget it," he concludes, "but also if we let it be rewritten by those whose ideological zealotry and boneheaded decisions have made America less safe to this day."
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