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Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash
A dozen readers have submitted the story of the death in a plane crash of Mike Connell, Karl Rove's IT adviser, the man who set up and ran the gwb43.com mail server, and an important figure in GOP tech circles since 1997. The closest thing to straight reporting to be found in a mainstream media outlet is a piece from KDKA in Pittsburgh giving a detailed backgrounder on Connell's work for Rove, two generations of the Bush family, and many GOP congressmen and committees. CBSNews.com is now mirroring the KDKA reporting. Almost all the early media coverage comes from the left and some of it is frankly conspiratorial. Among the milder pieces (although it could not be called balanced) is this interview with Mark Crispin Miller, NYU professor and author of two books about the 2004 election in Ohio. Connell was compelled to testify on the day before the US election in a lawsuit involving Ohio election irregularities in 2004. Connell, an experienced pilot, died on Sunday when his plane crashed two miles short of the runway of Akron-Canton Airport in Ohio.
... I hope no worthwhile human beings died in the crash.
The few trillions Bush funnelled to his friends at Halliburton and Blackwater, that's gotta have some power, doesn't it?
What? Let the proper authorities look into the situation? What kind of crazy talk is that?
Seriously? the conspiracy nut jobs will never except any evidence under any circumstances and will always claim to know better than the best minds in their related fields. It's pointless to even deal with people like that anymore. Planes wreck every day. This one could be an accident, it could be the work of some seedy people. Those of us who want to keep a cool head about it will never know the truth because there will be so many people pulling the truth in so many directions we will never notice it. It's sad that once people realize that what they believe is bullshit they can't just let it go and say they were wrong. Knee jerk reactions will always be the order of the day.
Now, I'm just waiting for some complete jerkoff come by and use this post as a vehicle for their politics or a chance to bash religion/gays/Linux users/Windows users. These asshats simply can not resist.
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Can we just try the guy as a traitor and let him get his sentence already? I mean even if he had nothing to do with this, the man has sold his countrymen out time and time again. He is a fecal smear on the face of our nation, let the people decide his fate.
Don't believe those who tell you to question authority, Martin.
Never question authority, Martin.
Authority is always right.
"Baa! Baaa!" says Martin from the back of the herd.