Sheryl Crow and Laurie David Get in a Cat Fight with Karl Rove, and Then Blog About It

Seeing an opportunity to confront Karl Rove on the Bush administration's lack of environmental action, Sheryl Crow and Laurie David walked up to the Deputy Chief of Staff during Saturday's White House Correspondents dinner to talk global warming. Rove's welcome was nothing close to warm.

FromLaurie and Sheryl's blog on the Huffington Post:

We reminded the senior White House advisor that the US leads the world in global warming pollution and we are doing the least about it. Anger flaring, Mr. Rove immediately regurgitated the official Administration position on global warming which is that the US spends more on researching the causes than any other country.

We felt compelled to remind him that the research is done and the results are in (www.IPCC.ch). Mr. Rove exploded with even more venom. Like a spoiled child throwing a tantrum, Mr. Rove launched into a series of illogical arguments regarding China not doing enough thus neither should we. (Since when do we follow China's lead?)....

.....In his attempt to dismiss us, Mr. Rove turned to head toward his table, but as soon as he did so, Sheryl reached out to touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, "Don't touch me." How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow? Unfazed, Sheryl abruptly responded, "You can't speak to us like that, you work for us." Karl then quipped, "I don't work for you, I work for the American people." To which Sheryl promptly reminded him, "We are the American people."

Rove has yet to hit back on his own blog.