So, remember back in April when Sheryl Crow said she thought that people should be restricted to one square of toilet paper at a time? Well, it turns out that Karl Rove leaked it (which is amazing since the comment came from an article that Crow wrote — that Karl Rove is certainly an evil genius):
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? 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.
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? 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.”
Did you ever actually suggest that? It was always a joke. It was part of a shtick. It was part of a comedy routine that Laurie and I were doing on the “Stop Global Warming College Tour.”