Rumors: Karl Rove Dying to See "Brokeback Mountain"

It's been slow here, and let me just apologize to you for that, dear reader(s). I found a holiday party to attend last weekend with fellow bloggers and I'm just now waking up. Anyway, stories and scoops are pretty much on hiatus for the holidays, so I thought I'd share this letter from a friend. His sources in DC have been chatting it up about Rove the last few days, among other things. Enjoy, and let me just say Happy Holidays to everyone.

Spank,
First, thanks for the case of High Life. Second, I had to write you about this funny example of how boring the White House is at Christmas. Most of the chatter over here this week is related to the surveillance blowup--no surprise there. But things are generally slow relatively speaking, so lots of oddball stories have been circulating. Yesterday everyone was abuzz about how they could hear Bush yelling at "the girls" about eating their SpaghettiOs, and the day before that was the squabble Condi's having with Dick over his giving her Jordan Almonds for Christmas again, even though she tells him every year she's allergic to nuts. Who knows what of all the gossip is true, but what I really wanted to tell you is that apparently Rove is chomping at the bit to see "Brokeback Mountain." Everyone's saying he finds a way to mention the movie in every conversation. As usual no one will confirm anything or go on record now that Card started torturing suspected leakers, but still, one of my most reliable sources says talking with Rove on any nonpolicy suff is nothing but "Heath Ledger this, Brokeback that, Ang Lee is so brilliant, yada, yada, yada." So who knew? The master of the gay-themed smear is all a tizzy over a couple of dashing cowpokes.

So there you have it, another juicy bit to ponder while sugar plums dance in our heads.