Media barred from covering Rove speech at prep school

Source: AP

WALLINGFORD, Conn. -- The media have been barred from covering a speech by former presidential adviser Karl Rove to students at a prestigious prep school on Monday.

Mary Verselli, spokeswoman for Choate Rosemary Hall, said Headmaster Edward Shanahan and Rove decided mutually to exclude the media.


The prep school, which is the alma mater of President John F. Kennedy and two-time Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson, is limiting attendance to students and staff due to space restrictions in the auditorium, she said.

"With all our students attending, we're only going to be able to squeeze in half of the faculty with chairs at the back of the auditorium," Verselli said. "This is a special program, a school event, and we typically don't invite the media to a school event."

"It's our standard way of doing things," Verselli told The Associated Press Sunday.



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Wouldn't want any Middle Class Cooties skittering up his pant legs.

So did anyone ask for a tape or printout of Mr' Big Giant Head's speech? Or is THAT *privileged* as well?

And universal law. I wouldn't take any of Karl Rove's karma for all of the money in the world.

how few of those chairs are actually filled.

canceled? Maybe that was some other prep school.

but it was moved up after the initial hue and cry.

you'd find that there's much more to this story than your post implies that there is.

Redstone

Kinda like a Joseph Heller novel.

It wouldn't surprise me if something leaked to outside journalists.

BTW, for the longest time, I thought Choate was pronounced "KO-ate", because of the word "inchoate". I was disappointed to find it's pronounced "chote", which is sort of ugly.

...now wants protection from that very instrument.

I say he should take as well as he gave!

:sarcasm: