Billmon: Squealer

All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers. The best known among them was a small fat pig named Squealer, with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive. The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white.

George Orwell
Animal Farm
1946

I don't know what Karl Rove was doing -- or saying -- in front of the grand jury yesterday, any more than anyone else who wasn't in the room at the time. Consensus opinion among the Plamegate experts seems to be that Karl is still trying to talk himself out of a jam -- the one created by his sudden attacks of temporary amnesia during his initial FBI interview and in his first appearance before the grand jury.