March 31, 2006 -- Email

From: Karl Rove (turdblossom@whitehouse.gov)

To: Jonah Goldberg (dpload@nationalreview.com)

CC: JPodhoretz (applynair@nationalreview.com); CMay (aipacrulz@nationalreview.com); WBell (I♥jbelushi@nationalreview.com); RPannuru (munchkinluvr@nationalreview.com)

Gentlemen,

I know that Mr. Buckley has allowed you to pretty much run the internet side of this magazine and you have taken advantage of the fact that he does not know how to operate the "machine". However, in articles and interviews the gentlemen is seriously undermining the conservative movement by pointing out failure on the part of Dear Sockpuppet Leader.

Statements like this, even from a long-time conservative, are verbotten:

``Mr. Bush is in the hands of a fortune that will be unremitting on the point of Iraq,'' Buckley said in an interview that will air on Bloomberg Television this weekend. ``If he'd invented the Bill of Rights it wouldn't get him out of his jam.''

Buckley said he doesn't have a formula for getting out of Iraq, though he said ``it's important that we acknowledge in the inner councils of state that it (the war) has failed, so that we should look for opportunities to cope with that failure.''

As you know gentlemen, accepting failure is not an option for the modern conservative. Only pointing the finger of blame at others is acceptable.

Mr. Buckley must be dealt with, with extreme prejudice, so send Lucianne Goldberg and Charles Murray to undertake this task.

Get to work!

Karl