Karl Rove’s Math for Dummies

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I didn’t want to continue about politics after yesterday, but Karl Rove (“Bush’s Brain”) handed me a gimmee recently, and I have to share it with you it here.

In an interview with Robert Siegel on NPR (All Things Considered, Oct. 24, 2006), Rove was mocking Siegel, accusing him of bias, and Rove predicted a Republican win of the House and Senate in the mid-term elections. He insisted that he was right, and Siegel was wrong for even thinking anything else. There was the following exchange:

SIEGEL: I’m looking at all the same polls that you’re looking at every day.

ROVE: No you’re not. No you’re not!

SIEGEL: No, I’m not –

ROVE: I’m looking at 68 polls a week. You may be looking at four or five public polls a week that talk about attitudes
nationally, but that do not impact the outcome …

… ROVE: Yeah. Look, I’m looking at all these, Robert, and adding them up. And I add up to a Republican Senate and a Republican House. You may end up with a different math, but you’re entitled to your math. I’m entitled to “the” math.

SIEGEL: I don’t know if you’re entitled to a different math, but you’re certainly entitled to -

ROVE: I said you were entitled to yours.

Here we have a perfect example of a “authoritarian” figure trying to bully someone into accepting their biased, ignorant view of math. It’s another attempt of trying to make math some kind of faith-based baloney. This is one of the best illustrations of why whenever someone says “Just shut up and do it my way,” you should drop any respect you might have had for that person’s “way”.

Karl Rove’s math is as bad as his politics.

Karl, you get another F-minus. Go sit in the corner.