Brendan Nyhan

Breaking news: “Karl Rove’s garage turns out to be typical”

Yes, the Associated Press is reporting on the contents of Karl Rove’s garage. Weep for our civilization (via Drudge):

He is “the architect” who steered George W. Bush to victory four times, twice as Texas governor and twice as president.

But can Karl Rove organize his own garage? Can the master of Bush’s political planning figure out where to put the ladders, paint cans and cardboard boxes?

Rove’s wife, Darby, raised the white garage door one morning last week to show journalists outside the million-dollar brick home that the deputy chief of staff, assistant to the president and senior adviser wasn’t home. All the interest came on the eve of his testimony Friday before a grand jury investigating who in the White House might have revealed the identity of a CIA operative.

There was no car in the garage. And the stuff left behind turned out not to be much different from what gathers dust inside most American garages.

Fascinating! And yes, there’s a picture of the inside of the garage:

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Apparently, the AP has taken a page from US Weekly. Coming soon: Pictures of Karl Rove taking out the trash!