Neocon’s hypocrisy following Palin nomination

By David Edwards and Nick Juliano~Raw Story

First up was Rove, an analyst Stewart described as having “a head like a lump of unbaked bread dough,” who appeared recently on Fox News praising Palin for her experience “as the mayor of, I think, the second largest city in Alaska” before becoming governor of the state.

Palin served six years as mayor of Wasilla, which has an estimated population around 9,000. That would make it at least the state’s fourth largest city, behind Anchorage, estimated population 280,000, along with Juneau and Fairbanks, each of which have around 30,000 residents.

“Karl Rove is very impressed with Sarah Palin’s experience as mayor of a city with 9,000 people in,” Stewart mused. “I’m sure he was equally impressed when Tim Kaine — former mayor of Richmond, population 200,000, former lieutenant governor of Virginia and now current Virginia governor — was on Barack Obama’s vice presidential short list.”

The Daily Show goes to a clip to prove wrong that ever so sensible observation, where Rove describes Richmond as “mayor of the 105th largest city in America” — one wonders where Wasilla falls on that particular list — and claims an Obama/Kaine ticket would be evidence of “an intensely political choice.” When confronted with this very shift earlier in the week, Rove did his best to dance around his admission that McCain’s choice had been just as political.

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