Karl Rove's Garage: SECRETS

BREAKING NEWS!!

Darlene Superville of the Associated Press breaks the story.

Karl Rove's Garage Proves to Be Typical

He is "the architect" who steered George W. Bush to victory four times, twice as Texas governor and twice as president.

But can Karl Rove organize his own garage? Can the master of Bush's political planning figure out where to put the ladders, paint cans and cardboard boxes?

Rove's wife, Darby, raised the white garage door one morning last week to show journalists outside the million-dollar brick home that the deputy chief of staff, assistant to the president and senior adviser wasn't home. All the interest came on the eve of his testimony Friday before a grand jury investigating who in the White House might have revealed the identity of a CIA operative.

There was no car in the garage. And the stuff left behind turned out not to be much different from what gathers dust inside most American garages.

The inventory, seen from outside:

_Some cardboard file boxes stacked one on top of the other, labeled "Box 6," "Box 4" and what appears to be "Box 7." No sign of boxes 1, 2, 3 and 5.

_What appear to be paint cans stacked alongside a folded, folding chair.

_A rather large wood crate marked "FRAGILE" and painted with arrows indicating which way is up. On top of the crate, two coolers.

_A tall aluminum ladder.

_A snow shovel leaned in front of another cardboard box.

_Wicker baskets inside of wicker baskets on top of a shelf running the length of the rear wall. Transparent plastic storage bins crammed with indiscernible stuff. Another cardboard box.

_In one corner, the rear wheel of a bicycle sticks out, along with what appears to be a helmet.

_Another ladder, this one green, leaning sideways.

Of all the stories in a world of over six billion people, this is considered breaking news by the Associated Press.

UNBELIEVABLE!!!

While Superville writes that Rove's garage is typical, there must be something about it that puts it in the BREAKING NEWS category according to the standards of the Associated Press.

What do you think piqued Superville's curiosity enough that she felt it was worth filing a story about the contents of Rove's garage?

Could it be the noticeably missing "boxes 1, 2, 3 and 5"?

Surely, those boxes must be part of the "Culture of Corruption" that surrounds the administration.

I want to know if there are more photos of the gargage's contents.

I'm sure if a Reuters photographer had been there, newsworthy images of Roves's garage would already be circulating. After all, Reuters was the news organization that put Bush's historical note about a bathroom break on its photo wire.



I bet that Reuters picture editor Gary Hershorn, the man responsible for giving the world photographic access to Bush's very personal inquiry, would be able to zoom in on those transparent plastic storage bins crammed with "indiscernible stuff" and have a Reuters processor use Photoshop to find out exactly what the bins contain.

I'm sure Terry Moran rushed over to Rove's home to sniff around for that "stench of corruption" that he finds so enticing.