Rove’s Plastic-Wrapped Surprise
EmailABC News’ Ann Compton and Jennifer Duck report: When out-going White House adviser Karl Rove returns from a trip to New Orleans with the President onboard Marine One Wednesday afternoon, he’ll get a surprise when he tries to drive home.
His car, parked on West Executive Avenue in a prime spot near the White House, has been shrouded in plastic wrap, with two stuffed eagles mounted on the trunk and an Obama bumper sticker slapped onto the car.
Watch video of Rove’s car HERE.
The prank is a goodbye gift of sorts for Rove, who is retiring on Friday.
However members of Rove’s young White House staff are not claiming responsibility … yet.
At the end of the day, the White House permitted children to unwrap Rove’s Jaguar. Like Christmas in August, they peeled away the plastic wrap and post-it notes.
Rove appeared to take the prank good-naturedly, and was seen laughing afterwards with White House economic advisor Al Hubbard and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten.
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Posted by: cat | August 29, 2007, 9:38 am 9:38 am
Why didn’t I think of that? BTW, that’s plain plastic wrap, not shrink wrap.
Posted by: Bob | August 29, 2007, 10:07 am 10:07 am
Is there something behind this joke? I think that as is par for the course with the Bush administration. Those in the administration get it. The rest of us don’t. And yet, they don’t mind that we are laughing at them. I would want people to laugh with me not at me. But, I guess they don’t mind. I just say a hearty thank you to all those who voted for them. And thanks to the short sighted media who can not cover politics in a meaningful manner. They can only keep up with two candidates. If the media would open their eyes and cover more parties, maybe better people could be encouraged to run. Maybe we could have real politics instead of an either the devil or satan as choices. The media needs to step up its game for the coming election and cover more the just the Republicrats and Democans.
Posted by: drphlgoode | August 29, 2007, 10:07 am 10:07 am
everything is a joke with these neo-cons, the damage they’ve done and the pain they’ve caused – and they think its just funny. rove should be tried for treason and then executed.
Posted by: tombombadil | August 29, 2007, 10:15 am 10:15 am
They should have shrink wrapped Rove.
Posted by: Ron | August 29, 2007, 10:35 am 10:35 am
If his young staff were the perpetrators, are they signaling that they have seen the light on the horizon, and may be pandering for a future position in the next administration by placing the Obama sticker on the bumper?
Posted by: gc | August 29, 2007, 10:42 am 10:42 am
Knowing Rove, he’ll probably try to have the culprits prosecuted and sent to Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay. Neocons have absolutely no semse of humor.
If they had wrapped HIM in Saran wrap, stuffed an eagle in his mouth, slapped an Obama sticker on his butt and thrown him into the Potomac…that would have been funny.
Posted by: Guy Incognito | August 29, 2007, 10:48 am 10:48 am
The stupid “jackass” generation which responds to these kinds of pranks have this man to look up to and Rove always delivers.
Posted by: DADDY | August 29, 2007, 11:24 am 11:24 am
My my. All these comments from those who say they are from the party of tolerance and understanding.
You people the joke.
Posted by: Kowboy | August 29, 2007, 11:40 am 11:40 am
Your comments about Rove and the Bush administration are pathetically OLD, STALE and potentially illustrative of the ignorance that you hold so dear and protect so much.
No matter how much I may despise the Clintons, Gores, Kerrys, etc. I realize that these people politically are qualified or they would not have gotten to where they are.
Bush more than successfully governed one of the country’s largest states (Texas, for those that didn’t know) and I hardly remember Gore or Kerry with any governing experience? And wasn’t Clinton’s mostly despised by his own home state for his governing? Maybe I am mistaken, however, the respect is still there for liberals I do not agree, but you libs have no respect for anyone or anything, including your own sanity.
Posted by: C Johnson | August 29, 2007, 11:42 am 11:42 am
I see the “tolerant” liberals are showing thier usual form of behavior – wishing the man to die, hoping he gets murdered or assasinated. Apparently the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post lets these people out every so often. Hate will only get you so far.
Disgusting. So typical of the new Democrat party.
Posted by: jdawg | August 29, 2007, 11:44 am 11:44 am
Interesting that the comments left by those of us who deplore these comments by the liberals are getting deleted.
Posted by: jdawg | August 29, 2007, 11:54 am 11:54 am
It should be covered with the names of all the Special Interest Groups he helped with lucrative government contracts and a set of bull horns on the front grill in honor of his buddy Georgie.
Posted by: TimTom | August 29, 2007, 11:59 am 11:59 am
I know progressives are full of hate, but not to that degree. Wow. Still, I’m surprised that they used plastic. Not very environmentally friendly. Should have used paper instead. Kind of like those environmentalists who burn whole car dealerships and blacken the skies with massive clouds of pollution and chemical filled smoke, to make a statement on protecting the environment. Same thing with the “Death to Rove” progressives.
Posted by: TexBork | August 29, 2007, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm
Whine, Here’s some Cheese,
For those who know and those who don’t please listen,
Truth doesn’t hide in Plastic wrap, it stands the test of time. Bush’s Failures will be seen with time, albeit that too many neocon’s wont agree, and to the Dem’s don’t forget that you have your painted history as well, None of these parties are truthfully for “The People”; but that’s why parties were established anyway, not to Unite, but to Divide, I hope one day ALL of you will FINALLY grow up and realize that until we Drop PARTY AFFILIATION and Unite as a people similar to how we did Just after Pearl Harbor and 9/11 we will always hurt ourselves.
Posted by: Idealisticly Disgusted | August 29, 2007, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm
Liberals are mad at Rove?? Maybe it’s also quite a few of us conservatives that Rove and his boss, GW, and the rest of this band of thieves who have given a bad name to.
Posted by: Roy | August 29, 2007, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm
Liberals, if they would think about it, should be very happy with Rove and GW. Those goons have set conservativism back a generation.
Posted by: Roy | August 29, 2007, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm
Not much of a surprise when you’re reporting about it right here. Perhaps next we can shrink wrap Rove, put him in a box and mail him to Afghanistan.
Posted by: chicagopoetry | August 29, 2007, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm
or, wrap the car with Rove inside
Posted by: nick | August 29, 2007, 12:39 pm 12:39 pm
The money they spent on the shrink wrap and the eagles could have gone to a family in New Orleans who is struggling to buy food for the family because they lost their house, job and possesions in Katrina. Joke or not, I suggest the White House staff uses their time and resources more wisely in the future. Goodbye, Karl Rove, another member of this cabinet thankfully “retired”.
Posted by: whatever | August 29, 2007, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm
You would think Rove at least would buy American. That traitor. He rather detroit auto jobs go away.
Posted by: adam | August 29, 2007, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm
The joke was what it was: a joke. As for the reference to Katrina, perhaps the Democratic Party which runs the N’awleans Welfare Plantation might consider relocating their ‘darkies’ from the 9th Ward to higher ground while returning the billions which was pilfered from grants to repair the levees over the past 30 years. Now THAT is no joke.
Posted by: John D. Patriot | August 29, 2007, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
They should have waited until he was in the car.
Posted by: The man | August 29, 2007, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
Rove was never a member of the cabinet, whatever.
Liberals = the enemy within.
Posted by: jdawg | August 29, 2007, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm
Isn’t it amazing that liberals base their politics on hating a person that they have never met, will never meet, know nothing about, and never will know anything about except what the liars in the press and the DMC tell them? Doesn’t sound very tolerant OR intelligent.
Posted by: mamatuffy | August 29, 2007, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm
This is evidently big news to ABC, but they still haven’t put a story up on Hillary’s laundered money from fugitive Norman Hsu.
Posted by: Dan Green | August 29, 2007, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm
This might be funny except this is the same guy who has pushed policies that have destroyed the lives of soldiers’ families and Iraqi families. Ha ha, I get it.
Posted by: Jim Kurz | August 29, 2007, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm
Watching the republicans tank like a flushed toilet is too much fun and my side hurts from the spear they cast through me…
Posted by: daddy | August 29, 2007, 6:09 pm 6:09 pm
And once again the liberals dog the political peeps while the conservatives get ugly against the liberals.
Posted by: Sandra | August 29, 2007, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm
Liberals are funny…AND hypocritical.
Posted by: mjdr1026 | August 29, 2007, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm
He parks on the street? Forget political affiliations….he parks on the street?
Posted by: Chuck | August 29, 2007, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm
Remember folks, regardless of your political affiliations, arguing on the internet is like being in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you are still mentally disabled.
Posted by: tom k | August 29, 2007, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm
If patton were alive he’d slap your face Karl
Posted by: steverino | August 30, 2007, 7:58 am 7:58 am
Just what I would expect from todays news sources, I go looking for a story about 44 U.S. Attorneys asking Congress to review a Carl Rove Scandle involving Bob Riley and Don Siegalman of Baldwin County Alabama. It concerned a fixed election in 2002, and U.S attornys being used to jail Mr. Siegalman..well new info is coming out on it now but what do I get some stupid story that effects no one!
Posted by: Jason | August 30, 2007, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm
Found it! The Article is titled “Lawyer Links Rove to Ala. Investigation” by Bob Johnson AP writer. And the correct spellings of the names are Don Siegelman,Bob Riley and Karl (the devil) Rove. Make sure you read all the comments, there great!
Posted by: Jaon | August 30, 2007, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm
Not long ago, at lunch, a former Republican who worked for Bush I during Watergate, said to me “Karl is a snake.”
A ruined Reublican Party both in red Texas and in the nation; for his own purposes, which were to make a very naughty payboy the Governor to the President. How, Try cheating and voter caging. That is not winning anything. The bully boss has alienated everyone,
but those who didn’t care about the Constitution.
Posted by: J.R. Ballard | September 2, 2007, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm
I told my friends that Rove’s departure from the Whitehouse was as the movie, “The Clash of the Titians,” and the scene when Craken was released, with Dick Cheney playing an irratated Zeus. Rove must make his “magic” on the next Presidential race. What swarmy scum will rise to the surfice now? They must be terrified of Hillary, must less the thought of Bill Clinton as first man. This must send the cadre of creeps into teeth nashing and hair pulling.
Posted by: sandra | September 2, 2007, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm