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Tell the truth about Karl Rove: There are no Nazis in his family tree. It's an internet legend, and it's a lie. by Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News Karl Rove is not the spawn of Nazis, or the grandspawn of Nazis. His grandfather was not Carl Röver, Karl Rovener, or Karl Roverer, and was not the Gauleiter of Oldenburg, a
That's an internet legend, and it's not true. Near as we can tell, the claim of Rove's Nazi pedigree started with free-lance muckraker Al Martin at his AlMartinRaw.com website. Virtually every mention of the Rove/Röver/Rovener/Roverer rumor either states it as fact without citing any source at all (which ought to ring alarm bells) or mentions, reprints, or cites Martin. But at least in the Martin reports I've seen, there's no mention of where he got this information. When I wrote to Mr Martin and asked that question, I received no response to two polite inquiries. Draw your own conclusions. According to sources we're more familiar with and more confident in, Rove's biological father abandoned the family when Rove was very young, and Rove was in his 40s the one time he met his natural father as an adult. Rove's adopted family There really was a Nazi officer named Carl Röver, but nobody has presented any credible evidence that Röver was related to Karl Rove. If you believe Karl Rove is of Nazi ancestry you've been duped. And I type this as someone who always thought she was skeptical, but I was duped by the story, too. It sounds perfectly plausible and completely in keeping with Rove's lack of character, and we read it at a credible news site (which has since retracted the story). So we briefly believed it, and mentioned it on our website Of course, we've retracted our one mention of Rove/Röver/Rovener/Roverer, but since we had a hand in spreading this mis-information many months ago, we feel we ought to be at the forefront of the debunking. It's our debt to society. So please, listen up: Karl Rove is a monster. He has spent his entire adult life telling lies, exploiting bigotry, abusing Christianity, and fanning false fears, all to build Republican electoral victories. He is complicit in subverting the Department of Justice for political purposes, and he crafted policies that led to a war that's killed thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of other people. By any honest standard he is guilty of treason, having revealed the name of an undercover CIA agent (a specialist in preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction) to further the lie that led to war, the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Karl Rove is clearly, obviously, unmistakably a man of no principles, no scruples, no character, and no patriotism. Claims that Rove is a Nazi or the grandson of Nazis are simply untrue © by the author.
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