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Bush the Brain vs. Barry the Bod
Politico Live's Blogs — ... Karl Rove, unofficial founder of the George W. Bush Image Reclamation Society, offers WSJ readers the startling revelation (mysteriously withheld from Ohio voters in '00 and '04) that Bush is way more Brie  and way less Cheez Whiz  than we all assumed. ...

Rove defeats Bush (in reading race)
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... Karl Rove wrote today in the Wall Street Journal about a contest he's had with President Bush each of the past three years: Who can read the most books? ...

The bookworm in the White House
Political Animal — ... Enterprise Institute, with some fairly boilerplate rhetoric. During his discussion, Christopher DeMuth, the group's president, mentioned, "Another book that you famously read was Eliot Cohen's 'Supreme Command,' and he later went to work for you." Bush responded, "Yes, he did." DeMuth added, "Do you think he got it right in that book?" The president replied , "I can't even remember the book," before asking DeMuth to hum a few bars. I mention this because Karl Rove devoted his latest Wall Street Journal column to bragging about George W. Bush's ...

The New Purpose of Fox News
Open Left - Front Page — Here's Karl Rove, bragging about Bush's literary tastes. Mr. Bush's 2006 reading list shows his literary tastes. The nonfiction ran from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, Babe Ruth, King Leopold, William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long, LBJ and Genghis Khan to Andrew Roberts's "A History of the English Speaking Peoples Since 1900," James L. Swanson's "Manhunt," and Nathaniel Philbrick's "Mayflower." Besides eight Travis McGee novels by John D. MacDonald, Mr. Bush tackled Michael Crichton's "Next," Vince Flynn's "Executive Power," Stephen ...

Karl Rove: Bush's Books
Crooks and Liars — ... But this article represents how far Rove and Bush have fallen. Rove is writing an article in the WSJ trying to tell America that Bush actually likes to read books. How humiliating this column must have been for him to write: ...

Cooking the Books
Lawyers, Guns and Money — As to the absurd notion that George W. Bush has read several hundred books since 2005, I can't offer much beyond what Steven Benen and Matt Stoler have already provided. In the very least, this is an elaborate put-on by Rove; to be slightly less charitable, his insistence that Bush devoted time this year to reading Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner Without a Name -- a book about torture, among other familiar ills -- is sickening. Or perhaps it's just as well. Bush "reads" books in the same sense that his government "adheres" to the Geneva ...

Steven G. Kellman: Bush the Bibliophile
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... In an act of spectacular revisionist chutzpah, Karl Rove is now portraying George W. Bush as a devoted bibliophile. The man who marketed Bush as a good ol' boy from Midland, Texas exuding righteous disdain for elitist intellectuals has just published an article in the Wall Street Journal titled "Bush Is a Book Lover". The former presidential advisor describes a friendly annual competition with his boss to determine the champion reader. In 2003, Bush told Fox News that he does not read even newspapers: "I glance at the headlines just to get a flavor for what's moving. I ...

Legacies
Whiskey Fire — ... The intellectual vacuum at the center. Bush is an easily manipulated boob who thinks he's an intellectual (witness this howler). There's nobody on the planet easier to play than that guy. ...

Bush Is a Book Lover (according to Rove over 1 book per week over last 3 years)
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... president of the United States. Our contest is not about sports or politics. It's about books. It all started on New Year's Eve in 2005. President Bush asked what my New Year's resolutions were. I told him that as a regular reader who'd gotten out of the habit, my goal was to read a book a week in 2006. Three days later, we were in the Oval Office when he fixed me in his sights and said, "I'm on my second. Where are you?" Mr. Bush had turned my resolution into a contest. Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123025595706634689.html Simply laughable. Operation legacy at ...

Midday Open Thread
Daily Kos — ... So Bush has supposedly read hundreds of books in the last few years, according to Karl Rove. This might be the most absurd assertion yet in the Bush legacy tour. But ...

Bush's Books
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — In one of the more unbelievable anecdotes to come out about President Bush as he winds down his presidency, Karl Rove says his former boss has read 95 books in the last three years. ...

Bush, Rove Spend Most Of Their Time Reading
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... This Karl Rove editorial from the Wall Street Journal is an oldie -- it went to print the day after Christmas -- but a goodie, based upon the number of people who've sent it to me in emails. Titled, "Bush Is A Book Lover," it tells the story of how your President and his "brain" spent the bulk of the past two years engaged in a book-reading contest! Normally, you wouldn't want the fact of your President to wend his way through various crises, foreign and domestic and military and financial, by keeping his schedule open to read books all the time getting out. But we're ...

Bush, Rove Spend Most Of Their Time Reading
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... This Karl Rove editorial from the Wall Street Journal is an oldie -- it went to print the day after Christmas -- but a goodie, based upon the number of people who've sent it to me in emails. Titled, "Bush Is A Book Lover," it tells the story of how your President and his "brain" spent the bulk of the past two years engaged in a book-reading contest! Normally, you wouldn't want the fact of your President to wend his way through various crises, foreign and domestic and military and financial, by keeping his schedule open to read books all the time getting out. But we're ...

And Here I Thought George W. Bush Was Retarded. At Least That’s What MSNBC Would Have Us Believe
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Maybe Karl Rove just took time out of his busy schedule to pen a lie about the President. Yes, that must be it. It couldn’t be the truth. ...

Legacies
Whiskey Fire — ... The intellectual vacuum at the center. Bush is an easily manipulated boob who thinks he's an intellectual (witness this howler). There's nobody on the planet easier to play than that guy. ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... When I first read about this, I thought it was a passing bit of press agentry -- but Rove has never stopped insisting that the reading rivalry is real, thought the Wall Street Journalop ed he published last week made clear that size is what matters: ...

"We're wrapping up a presidency led me a man his own team has described as 'not a big reader.'"
Althouse — ... Finally, there's this notion that fiction reading is what really develops your mind, which, I've long suspected is a pet belief of fiction readers. Immersed in their stories, they imagine — they're so imaginative — that they are better than people who read history and biography and so forth. In any case, Bush did read novels — notably "The Stranger." ...

Rove: Attending top schools doesn’t mean that Sotomayor is smart, but it proves that Bush is.
Think Progress — ... , was not smart,” Rove told the Chicago Tribune. In December 2008, Rove also touted Bush’s time at Harvard and Yale in a Wall Street Journal column, writing, “You don’t make it through either unless you are a reader.” ...

Quote-O'-The-Day: Punditiot Karl Rove edition
The Political Carnival — ... , was not smart,” Rove told the Chicago Tribune. In December 2008, Rove also touted Bush’s time at Harvard and Yale in a Wall Street Journal column, writing, “You don’t make it through either unless you are a reader.” ...

Swamp Star: 'I think, therefore I yam'
The Swamp — ... of the moment - the Washington Metro is no place to conduct scholarly research; it turns out. But we'd llike to ask the sharp-eyed Mr. Clarke to share the Swamp's Comment of the Day award, the Swamp Star, this evening with a regular also known as "Op109,'' who embellished the French mathematical genius' renowned cogito ergo sum with an Alfred E. Neuman-inspired variant: "Cogito, Ergo Spud.'' "I think, therefore I yam.'' ...