Karl Rove loves his iPhone
This was a week for unsoliticited celebrity Apple (AAPL) endorsements.
First there was Charlie Rose, falling on his face to save his MacBook Air. Then Martha Stewart, posing her French bulldog Sharkey in front of the “razor-thin” machine.
And now, via Newsbusters.org, former Bush political advisor Karl Rove. Here he is, interviewed by Matthew Sheffield, talking about his iPhone and his MacBook Air:
NB: All right, I’ve got just one more quick question for you. Last time I saw you, you’d just gotten an iPhone. How’s that working out for you?
ROVE: I love it. My life has changed. I have a shred of coolness. I’ve got my 3,500 people in my addressbook on the phone, I can sync my calendar. I keep track of my modest little stock investments. I can check the weather of my house in Washington, my house in Florida, my boy at school, my hunt-lease in south Texas. I can surf the web, I’m just–I get part of my email there.
I mean it is just shocking how much better, how much more productive I am. I no longer carry around a giant address book, if I don’t have my calendar close at hand, I can quickly check it out of my– I don’t have to carry, I used to carry several notecards, now it’s just as easy to scribble on my little notepad, I can take photographs and forward them on immediately, it’s just remarkable.
NB: All right. Well it sounds like Steve Jobs should call you up as a spokesman.
ROVE: There we go, there we go. And not only that, I also have the Mac Book Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.
NB: Ahh, well it sounds like you’ll have to get her one then.
ROVE: No I don’t, no I don’t. I’m the only cool one in the family with a MacBook Air.
For more of the Rove interview, including his take on left-leaning blogs (”… most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred”) click here.
Thanks to superbaka at TMO’s Apple Finance Board for the tip. Bush/Rove photo by Win McNamee / Getty via Time.com.
Just checked Amazon list of bestselling notebooks, 6 (!) of the top ten are Macs! (and the rest are the small Eee Pcs). Not surprising that Rove has a Mac laptop, every body else seems to be getting them as well.
No, the point is that Apple stuff is so good even a dirty trickster con like Rove can’t resist buying from that basion of liberalism, Apple
I just wonder if he can keep better track of his emails about CIA agents…
On the comment about bringing the iPhone of out ATT control. Apple is making a fortune from the ATT deal and costing us consumers sky high prices for the iPhone. A great deal for Apple and ATT. If most americans even knew that phone locking is simply a rip off by the phone companies, we could enjoy better service at cheaper prices. It should be an illegal practice. It is not the way in the rest of the world. It simply pure corporate greed.
What a stupid article!!! Who cares if Karl Rove loves his iphone. Karl Rove should be locked up somewhere and have to communicate with a tin can and a string. 
what a huge cognitive dissonance it is for the liberal hippie Apple worshippers this must be.
EWITUAL number three.
HMMM– should we let Dr. Evil (Rove) even have advanced technology (the iPhone)? He might mount a laser beam on it.
KR is one the smartest men on the planet and a republican makes him smarter. This makes Mac smarter looking in my eyes even more. Please bring iphone out of the control of ATT soon!!
The ‘S’ in South Texas should always be capitalized. The same goes for West Texas, North Texas, East Texas, and Central Texas. They are real and definable regions with proper names.
It must really get to you left wing supporters that Rush Limbaugh promotes Apple products. If it makes you feel any better, we conservative republicans aren’t thrilled about having Gore on the board, but we don’t go ballistic! Easy Does It.
Is Satan in his address book? Stupid Republican jackass.
We need a caption contest for the photo with this article. Here’s my suggestion:
“That’s OK, Karl. Someday Republicans will make cool technology, too.”
dave
(p.s. I’m more-or-less Republican, and above is provided for humor only, and does not represent my actual beliefs… 
Notice how the chauvinist misogynistic bastard doesn’t share technology with or think his wife deserves a laptop as well…typical Republican bigot.
I guess Bush is assuring Rove that he’ll look as metrosexually hot in black leotards as Steve Jobs does.
Well, if he likes the iPhone and MacBook Air, maybe there’s some hope for him after all.
Now that’s a address book worth having. I’d spam Bush all day with moveon flyers.
Note to Rove: Sorry, an Apple product, no matter how cool it may be, does not make you “cool”. Also, it’s nice to know you’d even keep something that makes you “cool” out of the hands of your own family (referring to the MB Air).
I realize he was (hopefully) being facetious when making these comments, but c’mon if your wife likes the laptop, you’ve certainly got enough loot to get her one. Don’t refuse just to hold it over her head. Total, compete, weaksauce.
Anyway, I’ll second that “Excuse me while I throw up a little” comment.
glad to see everyone is buying these great products, not just the far left loons.
I guess the point here is that people who like Apple products are angry like Rove.
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Why is it you libs are all so full of hate? What hypocrites!