Last week in Charlotte, North Carolina those Americans paying attention and not hypnotized into robot status through Fox News saw another illustration that Karl Rove is far from the genius nonpareil that a subservient corporate media depicts.  

Concerned about his sharply dropping poll numbers, Rove decided to actually turn his puppet, the faux Texas cowboy, loose on a wide audience without the normally careful screening process that prevailed as established operational policy.

The result at a town meeting at Central Piedmont Community College was something that Rove should have anticipated.  Harry Taylor, a real estate broker, was someone who did not get the Fox message.  He stepped before a microphone and told the emperor to his face that he was devoid of clothes.  

Taylor revealed his shame over Washington leadership in the wake of preventive detention, the right to arrest and hold a citizen without even preferring charges indefinitely, along with the emperor's right to tap telephones without so much as a hint of a warrant issued by a magistrate.