- Karl Rove, right, and President George W. Bush
Just a little heads up for all our friends out their in Instant Tea Land: Karl Rove is coming to the DFW Metroplex.
The World Affairs Council is bringing the man who was President George W. Bush’s senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to town to talk about his newly-released memoir, “My Life as a Conservative in the Fight.”
Rove will speak at the Hyatt Regency Dallas, 300 Reunion Blvd. in Dallas, on March 15 and at the Fort Worth Club, 306 W. Seventh St. in Fort Worth on March 16. Both programs start at noon.
Tickets are $55 for WAC members and their guests, and $70 for nonmembers, and can be purchased online DFWWorld.org or or by calling the council’s events hotline at 214-965-8412.
I am sure you will all want to get your tickets early. Wonder if he will stay with the Bushes while he’s in town?
Is there something I’m missing or is the dallas voice actually giving publicity to Karl Rove? WTF?!?
Someone use Grindr there, see what pings.
Blake, I think Tammye might be thinking some Dallas Voice readers would want to protest. Or maybe she’s just a big fan.
David, given the tone of the post the latter unfortunately seems more probable. Even if Tammye was a card carrying member of the Karl Rove Fan club, I would hope that there would be some system in place at the Dallas Voice that would prevent staff from promoting the likes of a Bush strategist who has this to say about us,
“Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal. And the ideal is that marriage ought to be and should be a union of a man and a woman. And we cannot allow activist judges to overturn that. We cannot allow activist local elected officials to thumb their nose at 5,000 years of human history and determine that marriage is something else”
What mechanisms are in place at the Dallas Voice to ensure that the Premier Media Source for LGBT Texas remains accountable to the public it serves?
Good idea to use Grindr to sniff out they married closet cases.
Would be funny to see some big Tea Party married closet case get arrested in a local park or mens room.
Is your comment serious? She isn’t a fan. You are being over dramatic or delusional.
It is my hope that our friends at Code Pink will plan some sort of disruption.
It would be worth the price of admission to go and ask him if he is a power bottom……
I see the Rove’s FW speech is going to be at the Fort Worth Club.
Is this the same Fort Worth Club that our Fort Worth Mayor belongs to that had a big controvery a few years ago because it didn’t allow African Americans to be members?
The World Affairs Council, huh? The only time I attended was to hear retired Gen. John Singlaub talk about nuclear issues. Little did I know that he was completely, certifiably nuts. He used Perot-style posters to demonstrate the efficacy (?) of theater, hemispheric, and global nuclear war.
And me a Unitarian social activist.
Karl Rove was after all running the White House, so he justifiably should be defending himself and so called conservative values. At least he’ll get a good audience and make some money off his speech.
Did you mean ruining the White House?
No, seriously Tammye, what mechanisms are in place at the Dallas Voice to ensure that the Premier Media Source for LGBT Texas remains accountable to the public it serves?
OK, someone explain to me how Karl Rove can get a big, wet kiss from The Voice yet not one word of a story on Queer LiberAction’s successful, well attended rally and march in downtown Ft. Worth last July in protest of the violent, illegal raid on The Rainbow Lounge and the assault on the LGBT community of North Texas? Just sayin’
Actually 408 words:
See:
https://dallasvoice.com/instant-tea/2009/07/08/gearing-up-for-the-july-12-rally-in-ft-worth/
and:
https://dallasvoice.com/instant-tea/2009/07/13/rally-at-the-courthouse/
And picture of the writer:
https://dallasvoice.com/instant-tea/2009/07/13/rally-at-the-courthouse/rick-vanderslice/
David,
So the DV gives about just as much exposure to Karl Rove as it did to the largest LGBT rally/march in Tarrant Co. history? I was digging through my collection of editions of the Dallas Voice and couldn’t seem to find the article in the print edition about the rally/march, odd.
Also David, please stop trying to make QL out to be cry-babies wanting more ink and face time. We know we look good and make pretty photos but if you guys would stop for a second at the rallies and actually interview one of us you might find that there are useful political perspectives that our whole community would benefit from. I think what is in print, and not, speaks for itself. Please tell me if I’m off base and for the third time do inform us as to what mechanisms the DV has in place to ensure that it’s accountable to the community it serves.
Your thoughts Tammye?
Blake: We have in place the same mechanism that any other newspaper’s editorial staff has in place: An editorial staff that discuses and debates the news and events that need to be covered and how we will cover them, given editorial page space and time and staff.
And as for my blog post concerning Karl Rove, I thought it was obvious enough that I did not need to spell out the reason: I assumed there might be those in the LGBT community of North Texas who might be glad to have advance notice of his appearance here so that they could attend the event to question him about the Bush administration’s anti-gay policies, or maybe even protest outside the event. Quite frankly, as I wrote the post, I was thinking that QL might want to use the information to plan a protest. Apparently, I should have spelled that out and not left it to be assumed.
And yes, I do find it a little strange that you are using this rather innocuous blog post as an opportunity to complain about what you felt was inadequate coverage, after the fact, of a QL rally last summer, especially considering that QL and you have gotten quite a lot of Dallas Voice coverage in the last year and a half and that you have been given the opportunity to write op-ed pieces as well. Dallas Voice has given you many opportunities to present your political perspectives.
Also, please compare the word count and number of photos of this Karl Rove blog post to the word count and number of photos posted here about that particular rally last summer, not to mention overall coverage of QL, both online and in print. No, there was not coverage after the fact on that rally in the print edition of Dallas Voice. But then again, there was no coverage at all of Karl Rove’s appearance here in the print edition.
You and I have had a conversation in person in which you expressed your anger that the rally in question was not covered in the next week’s print edition of Dallas Voice, and in which I told you why that decision was made. You didn’t like my explanation then, and obviously still do not. But the reasoning has not changed and we will always disagree on that point.
Our responsibility and accountability is to our readership as a whole, not to any one group.
What would happen if someone paid their way in did things like held up pro-gay signs or shouted pro-gay signs or asked questions about his anti-gay record?
Would it be legal to do so if you paid your way in?
Of course, I’m asking for the Dallas event. Needless to say the Fort Worth Police would beat you to a pulp and gas or taser you.