In other news, GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio says he would nominate Supreme Court justices who would bring back bans on gay marriage.
Meanwhile, a teacher in Georgia apparently thought it would be very funny to ask a Muslim girl if she was carrying a bomb in her backpack. Ha! Jackass.
And finally, New York Magazine shares the story of rich people being very mad at Karl Rove for wasting their money and their reluctance to donate in 2016.
A few days after the election, New York hedge-fund manager Daniel Loeb, who’d helped finance Rove’s surge, tried to sue Crossroads and Fox News for misrepresenting the facts. “Loeb felt this was like an investment bank committing fraud on a road show,” a friend of his told me. After conferring with a securities lawyer, Loeb discovered that there are no investor protections in politics. He never filed a suit. (And Loeb declined to comment.)
Rove’s 2012 crash is having profound effects on the 2016 Republican primary. To begin with, George W. Bush’s Brain is no longer considered much of a brain. “I gave Rove $500,000. What did I get for it? Nothing!” [Home Depot co-founder Kenneth Langone] told me.
And somewhere, the world's tinniest violin plays.