Things you didn't know about Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove

By at 6:27 am Tuesday, Aug 14

Two of ten items listed in US News & World Report:
# Karl Christian Rove was born on Christmas Day 1950 in Denver. His family moved a lot until settling in Salt Lake City. Rove's parents divorced when his stepfather, whom he considered his father, came out as gay. Rove would meet his biological father 20 years later.

# President Bush is known to give people nicknames. Among Karl Rove's nicknames are "Boy Genius" and "Turd Blossom," which is a flower that grows in cow dung.

Link. (Thanks, John Parres)

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