In today's political news, Karl Rove just compared himself to an aggressive and hard-to-harpoon whale.
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An interesting Moby Dick reference, but I prefer Star Trek.
Hard to harpoon, but we got plenty of time to practise.
I presume part of the point of this comparison is that he thinks he will like Moby Dick end up winning.