It looks like Apple is catching on more and more with the conservative right. Helping to further undo Mac’s image of a company aimed at snobby liberal types, good ole’ conservative, ex-George W senior advisor Karl Rove has publicly professed his love of the Apple iPhone and admitted to owning a MacBook Air.
He revealed this previously unknown hipness in an interview with NewsBusters.
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 guess we can call this phenomenon Rush-ization, and like it or not, if this trend continues, we may be seeing clips of Bush and Cheney texting each other on their iPhones while video chatting their war advisors on their Macbooks *shudders*.
And before you go commenting about the political undertones of this post, realize that it took a herculean amount of self restraint to keep the jabs this soft, so cut this liberal Mac-using snob a little slack, will ya?
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conservative since 72, a Mac user since 84, iPhone user since june 29 2007. An excellent product sells itself across all boundaries. Jobs is brilliant in his own right, and needs no politics to sell his product. Karl and Rush know a good idea when they see it.
"I can check the weather of my house in Washington, my house in Florida, ... my hunt-lease in south Texas."
Who's the snob again? How did that become a liberal thing? Snob and Republican are virtually synonymous (remember the respective fields of presidential candidates and tell me which party demonstrates an exaggerated respect for a high social position and wealth and animosity towards the lower class).
@Dave-O
The only difference between wealthy Liberals and Conservatives is that the former feels guilty about their financial standing.
The Democrats are filled with elitist New England lawyer types.
Each party has their own d-bags...not recognizing that makes you a d-bag yourself.
What's with Windows desktop in the background on the iPhone?
Rove was sporting the MacBook Air proudly on Fox News the night of the Texas and Ohio primaries. So his "previously unknown hipness" was known to those of us who tuned in to election night coverage some time ago.
Oh, and Dave-O: One party offers a choice between two high-dollar, Ivy-educated lawyers. The other nominated a career soldier whose last competitor in the primaries was an underfunded former Baptist preacher. Care to guess which party will gain the latte-sipping, Prius-driving, high-income, send-my-kids-to-private-school vote?
Rove was sporting the MacBook Air proudly on Fox News the night of the Texas and Ohio primaries. So his "previously unknown hipness" was known to those of us who tuned in to election night coverage some time ago.
Oh, and Dave-O: One party offers a choice between two high-dollar, Ivy-educated lawyers. The other nominated a career soldier whose last competitor in the primaries was an underfunded former Baptist preacher. Care to guess which party will gain the latte-sipping, Prius-driving, high-income, send-my-kids-to-private-school vote?
"...my boy at school..." Karl Rove's son is Black?! Who knew?
I think he's holding the phone with the wrong hand in this "picture." Or maybe he's a contortionist.
Even a stopped watch is right twice a day.
Wow, straw men and name calling, victory is mine!