Crow to Rove: Mind your place... peon!

I heard on the tv this morning there was no joking this year at the White House Correspondents Association dinner on account of Virginia Tech solemnity. Still, this bit has me feeling mild sympathy for Karl Rove -- nobody likes a party harpie.

When environmental activist Laurie David was introduced to Karl Rove, (a guest at one of the Times’s tables though this conversation was out of our earshot) during the dinner, she confronted him on global warming. The brief discussion quickly turned, well, heated — so much so that Sheryl Crow walked over in a show of support. They said Mr. Rove surprised both of them with his reaction, as they wrote in a blog on Huffington Post this morning. Ms. Crow reportedly told him: “You can’t speak to us like that, you work for us.”
“I don’t work for you, I work for the American people,” came the reply. And that was that.