Marshall refers to an upcoming article I’ll be delighted to see:

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: August 22, 2004 – August 28, 2004 Archives

It’s understood as a given in Washington — among Republicans as much as among Democrats — that Karl Rove is behind these ads. But publicly we have to go with the ludicrous notion that he has no connection with them — a willing suspension of disbelief that allows the president some room to express mock sympathy over the results of his own acts.
A friend of mine has a magazine article coming out in a few weeks which I’m told gets some of the goods on Rove’s history of political bad acts. So we’ll see if that moves the bar for him at all.