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President Bush’s Senior Advisor Karl Rove confirmed Apple iPhone user (with image)
Monday, August 06, 2007 - 07:37 PM EDT

Presidential advisors Karl Rove and Josh Bolton confer as President George W. Bush visits the damage of the collapsed I-35W bridge in Minneapolis in a photo published Monday, Aug. 06, 2007 on TIME Magazine's online "White House Photo Blog." Rove is clearly using an Apple iPhone:



Larger image via TIME Magazine here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Bill" for the heads up.]

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Aug 06, 07 - 07:42 pm Comment from: JanKo

This is the end of Blackberry. RIP.

Aug 06, 07 - 07:42 pm Comment from: iRove

first, and ugh...

Aug 06, 07 - 07:42 pm Comment from: ping

Let's just hope the firewalls are holding and the toxic spill can be mostly contained...! sick

Aug 06, 07 - 07:42 pm Comment from: eMax

would this even be made news if it was a nokia, or a black berry??? nope....

I love it..haha!! go Apple!

Aug 06, 07 - 07:43 pm Comment from: Idiot

Maybe I won't be getting an iPhone after all...

Aug 06, 07 - 07:44 pm Comment from: shen

evil satan knows a superior interface when he sees it....

Aug 06, 07 - 07:46 pm Comment from: Jimbo von Winskinheimer

C'mon guys, this is fair and balanced reporting here. They are reporting about a huge disaster, a major collapse, lots of damage done. Yep, that pretty much sums up Dumbya's presidency.

Aug 06, 07 - 07:48 pm Comment from: Quad Core

"evil satan knows a superior interface when he sees it...."

Well, that's why Al Gore joined the Apple Board

Aug 06, 07 - 07:52 pm Comment from: @Quad

Quad, say what you want about Al Gore, but he hasn't killed a million innocent civilians or thousands of Americans.

Aug 06, 07 - 07:58 pm Comment from: Spark

"say what you want about Al Gore"

Okay, he is a complete hysterical nut-case.

I feel better now.

Aug 06, 07 - 07:59 pm Comment from: flackman

Gaaaaa. My eyes! My eyes!

The spawn uses an iPhone.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:02 pm Comment from: Huck

Gross. Someone shove that Twins cap down his throat for me.

Looks like his diet hasn't been holding up too well.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:02 pm Comment from: Rob

Good for Karl, obviously he has some taste. I'm sure this news will warm the hearts of the nut job ultra leftists around here that consider him to be the antichrist. LOL

Aug 06, 07 - 08:03 pm Comment from: MegaMe

Carl Rove is not a conservative.

A republican maybe, but not a conservative.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:04 pm Comment from: Huck

He better be using the official White House servers. I can't believe Congress is letting him get away with having flagrantly destroyed and withheld evidence of his role in the U.S. attorney firings.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:06 pm Comment from: Al Gore's Pill Popping Son

Damn Daddy, why does Karl Rove have an iPhone and I don't? Maybe if you ever actually did your job as an Apple board member I would already have already got one for free!

Aug 06, 07 - 08:08 pm Comment from: innocent civilians ?

"a million innocent civilians" ??? They are all the same. All brainwashed murderers.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:09 pm Comment from: Jim - TIV

MDN must have some bills to pay.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:10 pm Comment from: cartoonasaurus

Republicans Blah blah blah Evil warmongers Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah

Democrats Blah blah blah Evil America Haters Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah

BLECHHHH to ALL of you!

Everything terrible and everything great was made by Republicans AND Democrats AND people of every political affiliation. Pick a SIDE, not a FIGHT, and work your ass off for change. Wanna throw mud? Go to Preschool and have at it...

Aug 06, 07 - 08:10 pm Comment from: JA

@ HUCK

The Twins are a great baseball organization... course, I am biased. I am typing from Minneapolis.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:11 pm Comment from: Raymond from DC

This is *so* not newsworthy. Call us when the White House starts moving to Macs.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:13 pm Comment from: Jessef

Ugh.

Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:16 pm Comment from: Islandgirl

He's checking to see if he's been subpoenaed.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:17 pm Comment from: The Pharaoh

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:19 pm Comment from: R

Pharaoh, you should stop eating littles.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:24 pm Comment from: Fed Up

That about closes the book on the device for me. Unless - there will be a release of iPhone snaps he takes from his prison cell. Then I'd consider buying one again!

Aug 06, 07 - 08:25 pm Comment from: RS

Eeewwww.. I just threw up a little in my mouth.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:29 pm Comment from: R

RS, you, too. They don't seem to agree with your constitution.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:30 pm Comment from: opie

Idiot is an Idiot!

Aug 06, 07 - 08:33 pm Comment from: Shiva

I looked at an iPhone this last weekend. It is way cool but didn't impress me enough to ask for one from Santa (my wife). The Mac Pro with a 30" screen however...I may get one however if we do get that pic Fed Up talked about. Hell, I may get one for Santa and any of my friends who want one. I'd be that happy but I'll be looking for happiness elsewhere. 'cause that won't be happening. Shrub will be reading a pardon in unison with a verdict if a trial ever did happen.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:34 pm Comment from: No Squirt For You

I knew there would be Roving charges. Cheney had one too but he accidentally shot it.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:34 pm Comment from: Shiva

@ R

You are one funny person.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:35 pm Comment from: MacGuy

It always amazes me to see how stupid people actually are.

Truly!

Aug 06, 07 - 08:40 pm Comment from: G Spank

Good for Karl Rove, he's had a rough life. His biological father abandoned the family early on and his mother remarried. In December 1969, Rove's stepfather left the family, and divorced Rove's mother soon afterward. After his parents' separation, Rove learned from his aunt and uncle that the man who had raised him was not his biological father; both he and his older brother Eric were the children of another man. In 1981 Rove's mother committed suicide in Reno, Nevada.

Makes you wonder if he's mentally fit to be in such a powerful position, but I do feel sorry for the guy.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:40 pm Comment from: macromancer

"Good for Karl, obviously he has some taste. I'm sure this news will warm the hearts of the nut job ultra leftists people who realize he's an unAmerican fascist around here that consider him to be the antichrist. LOL"

There, fixed it for you.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:43 pm Comment from: Steve

"Quad, say what you want about Al Gore, but he hasn't killed a million innocent civilians or thousands of Americans."

Millions of innocent civilians? Thousands of Americans?

You are helpless.

LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER!

Aug 06, 07 - 08:47 pm Comment from: gow

I can always understand disagreements and differing opinions, what I can never understand is how fellow citizens can hate. Respectfully disagree, but when you stoop to Kool-aid drinking hatred, you do nothing but help destroy the foundation laid by our founding citizens. Think, don't drink. I thought the righties were immature during the 90s, the lefties are making the 90s seem civil. Let's move forward.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:48 pm Comment from: had enough

They are reporting about a huge disaster, a major collapse, lots of damage done. Yep, that pretty much sums up Dumbya's presidency.

It was only a matter of time before some assclown like yourself blamed the bridge collapse on Bush as well. As if weak engineering compounded by 40 years of traffic, Siberian weather, and fiddle-fsking around by various agencies had nothing to do with it.

How would you have summarized things if this bridge went down while a Democrat was in office? Would've it been better if Bubba was there to feel our pain?

As for the iPhone, whatever. It's pathetic when a CELL PHONE at a disaster scene merits a headline.

Aug 06, 07 - 08:53 pm Comment from: neomonkey

G Spank, I'd commit suicide too if I were Karl's mom. How could anyone live that down?

Aug 06, 07 - 09:06 pm Comment from: Farlo

Queue the rabid hordes!!!


Oops....too late.

Aug 06, 07 - 09:06 pm Comment from: artb

This reduces the likelihood that I will ever buy an iPhone. What a nightmare for the Apple brand. "iPhone, communications device of choice among fat, white rightwingers."

Aug 06, 07 - 09:07 pm Comment from: Viet Nam Vet

Whomever wrote @Quad
Golly, I do believe it was a democratic president who sent me to Viet Nam and a republican who ended it. And honestly, wasn't it osama bin laden who killed thousands of Americans? You wrote "Quad, say what you want about Al Gore, but he hasn't killed a million innocent civilians or thousands of Americans." It was Al's political party that caused the death of a million innocent civilians and over 58,000 US soldier, sailors and Marines in Viet Nam so does that make him guilty by association?? Get off your soap box. Old men send young ones to die. That's the history of "civilization" and your idiotic pronouncements aren't going to change anything.

Aug 06, 07 - 09:09 pm Comment from: M.A.D.

The right is always right! :D

But go Ron Paul!

Aug 06, 07 - 09:10 pm Comment from: Bill

This just proves even total idiots can find their way around an iPhone interface.

Aug 06, 07 - 09:12 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Jim - TIV

No kidding.

Aug 06, 07 - 09:13 pm Comment from: Huck

I agree that the Twins are a great organization. That's why I don't him wearing their hat. Trying to turn a fricking disaster into a political photo opportunity.

He is such a dick.

To Had Enough: Read this and we'll talk.

Or not. I suspect your capacity for denying what's right in front of your face is derived from regular sessions of brainwashing by Limbaugh and Hannity. Brainwashed people are hard to talk to. They just keep saying the same things over and over, like half-wits.

Republican dogma is killing this country.

Aug 06, 07 - 09:19 pm Comment from: Mike

Who the hell does $25,000 of damage to the white house because they lost. The children who were in the white house before W.


Who keyed/kicked in car door sheet metal at Wellstones funeral that had "the other sides" (R) bumper stickers on it.

The Hate,

Aug 06, 07 - 09:19 pm Comment from: mattjumbo

Can't we all just calm down, take a joyride, and down some illegal drugs? I hear Al Gore's kid can hook us up!

Aug 06, 07 - 09:20 pm Comment from: Tom

Sorry, off topic...

If you're not super wealthy, not a greedy criminal, not an extreme religious freak and/or not mentally handicapped, how do you support the ideals of the Republican party??!!

I'm no super-lefty liberal. I'm not a fan of Sharpton, Jackson or Hilary, but ANYTHING would be better than the leadership of the last 7 years!!! God help us!

BTW: Fox News is a propaganda machine if you haven't figured that one out yet.

PS: Go Apple! ; )

Aug 06, 07 - 09:21 pm Comment from: anaknipedro

Romney in '08

Aug 06, 07 - 09:22 pm Comment from: mattjumbo

"Republican dogma is killing this country."

I agree there is a ton of hateful conservative dogma in this country. The only thing worse is the 200 hundred tons of liberal dogma in this country. For every one Limbaugh, there are 10 Al Frankens. For every hour of right wing radio talk, there are 100 hours of left wing network programming.

Here's an idea...vote libertarian!

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