Download the Constitution, Play it in your iPod

Blake Gottesman, not Karl Rove, is the most influential man in the United States, as he truly has the President's ear.

The 26-year-old college dropout (he attended Claremont McKenna College for one year in 1999) has been President Bush's special assistant and personal aide for the last four years.

How powerful is Mr. Gottesman? This May he became one of the very few (if not only) applicants who was admitted into Harvard's Business School without even having an undergraduate degree. Prompting "The Economist" to make a funny after HBS spokesman James E. Aisner told the British magazine that degrees are nice, but "extraordinary circumstances" can trump sheepskin. Aisner said that if Bill Gates, hypothetically, or Michael Dell, who also have no diplomas, applied to the business school, they would probably also be admitted. To which the Brit weekly sniped: “Needless to say, holding the president’s hand-sanitizer is a far cry from heading a Fortune 500 company.”

Obviously the Economist hadn't read the CNN story in April of 2005 that revealed that Gottesman had the influencial duty of downloading the MP3s that end up in "iPod One", the President's iPod.

In the CNN piece it was reported that Mr. Bush enjoys John Fogerty, the Knack, and George Jones.

Which got us wondering, what would happen if someone as powerful as Gottesman downloaded an audio version the Constitution and tossed it in the Hot Jamz playlist in iPod One so the President could actually hear what he's wiping his ass with?

And just imagine what a pleasure it would bring his supporters if, the next time he's asked "what's in your iPod?" he responds with, "The Constitution. Thanks LAist!"

We would then tip our top hats to Metafilter for this fine thread.