According to Robert Kennedy Jr., Karl Rove spat more than harsh words at Sheryl Crow and Laurie David over global warming at the White House Correspondents’ dinner. Rove “literally started spitting at them,” says Kennedy, who attended with Crow and David. The women discussed global warming, “in a very civil and gentle and friendly and charming way, and he was as rude and arrogant as a person could be, and turned his back on them and walked away.” He adds, “It was a very strange thing to watch, and a sad thing to think the government is being run by, you know, somebody like that.”

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