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Clarifications on the Rove\/Hudson\/exorcism\/blessing<\/a><\/p>\n

Hudson says he didn’t say it was an exorcism. Authors who interviewed him say well, maybe not, but it wasn’t a joke, either:<\/p>\n

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Hillary, Rove joked, was a reason the place needed to be purged of evil spirits," write James Moore and Wayne Slater in "The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power."<\/p>\n

"That’s why he invited his … right-hand man for Catholic outreach in the 2000 presidential campaign, to arrange a Catholic blessing."<\/p>\n

Deal Hudson — the aforementioned "right-hand man" — acknowledges he ushered a suburban Virginia priest into Rove’s office but says Rove never even joked about expelling Clinton’s spirit: His host simply wanted his work space blessed.<\/p>\n

"It certainly came up that it was Hillary Clinton’s office, but Karl didn’t joke that way to me," said Hudson, who spoke with the authors two years ago. "It was a sober 5- to 10-minute ceremony … the fact that Karl Rove was in Hillary Clinton’s office was definitely not the reason for it."<\/p>\n

Slater said Hudson was backtracking. "A formal exorcism didn’t happen, that’s true," Slater said. "But it was a real religious ceremony. Rove made more than a passing reference to Hillary Clinton. They talked about the fact, in a joking way, that this had been her office and Hillary was still in there."<\/p>\n

Slater and Hudson both say they’re stumped over why Rove, known to be agnostic, wanted any blessing at all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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