The Sinister Hand of Karl Rove

Cheryl Crowe has uncovered a secret plot by Karl Rove to make her look like a fool.

Interviewer: Last spring, you were held up as a parody of environmental correctness when you proposed restricting the use of toilet paper to one square per bathroom visit. What was that about?

Cheryl Crow: I think it’s a fantastic and eye-opening example of how the media is operated by political figures, of how Karl Rove was humiliated in the media and how, within 24 hours, he was able to humiliate me and take any sort of credibility away from me.

Interviewer: What are you saying? You think Karl Rove leaked the toilet-paper story to the press after you and Laurie David sparred with him about global warming at the White House correspondents’ dinner?

Cheryl Crow: I cannot tie him directly to that leak, but within 24 hours of our exchange, as we were leaving D.C., it was on the CNN ticker tape: “Sheryl Crow has proposed that we legislate toilet paper to one square.”

Interviewer: Did you ever actually suggest that?

Cheryl Crow: It was always a joke. It was part of a shtick…”