LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia - March 30, 2010 - Karl Rove has seen better days.

The former White House Deputy Chief of Staff and top Bush adviser was treated to a cadre of protesters Monday, who threatened him with a citizen's arrest and ultimately succeeded in driving him offstage.

As the local CBS News affiliate described it, "Karl Rove book tour starts out with a bang."

Maybe not quite the bang he wanted.

A co-founder of the liberal activist group Code Pink, which has repeatedly interrupted both Republican and Democrat political figures' speeches with questions about the Iraq war, brandished handcuffs at the former Bush adviser during a speech Monday night in Beverly Hills.