Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential

The great joke implicit in the title of this talking-head documentary is that contrary to what many liberals would have you believe, President George W. Bush does in fact have brain — it's inside Karl Rove's head. Bah-dah-dum!. Rove has been Bush's chief political guru throughout his career in politics and, as journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater argued in their 2003 Rove expose, Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, he's also his alter ego. Long before Bush ever even considered running for governor of Texas, Rove saw his potential. Bush was everything the geeky political junkie from Salt Lake City wasn't: An oil-rich, blue-b...