Fox News Refuses To Identify Karl Rove As McCain Adviser
Fox News Refuses To Identify Karl Rove As McCain Adviser
Former Bush political adviser Karl Rove recently confirmed that he has made a financial contribution to Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) presidential campaign. On March 8, the Politico reported that Rove is “now informally advising” the McCain campaign. But Fox News doesn’t want you to know that.
Since the Politico story, Rove has made four appearances on Fox News primetime in his official capacity as a political contributor to discuss the 2008 presidential elections. In those appearances, he has either praised McCain or attacked both his potential Democratic opponents — without being identified as a McCain adviser. Some examples of his commentary:
– “McCain will be seen if the question is who should be commander in chief, John McCain will out distance his Democratic competitors.” [Journal Editorial Report 03/08/08]
– “I’m happy to see [Obama] go after [Clinton] on ethical behavior and because she is going to respond in kind. And it will get ugly and mean and there will be deep wounds.” [Journal Editorial Report 03/08/08]
– Obama “looked arrogant and harsh.” [Hannity & Colmes 03/10/08]
– Obama is “inexperienced” is “not fit to be commander in chief” and has “too thin a record to be considered a serious candidate for president.” [The O'Reilly Factor 03/12/08]
– Obama is an “inexperienced senator with very liberal views, who’s out of the mainstream of American politics.” [The O'Reilly Factor 03/12/08]
The more Fox News refuses to disclose Rove’s role in McCain’s campaign, the more the network establishes its credentials as the Republican Party’s mouthpiece.
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Karl “Hussein” Rove.
Putz.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:39 pmMy favorite Colbert quote, “facts have a liberal bias”.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:39 pmFox News doesn’t want people to know something.
Doesn’t surprise me.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:41 pmWow…what a sell out McCain is…
It’s OK that Rove created a rumor that he had a bastard child, because he’ll do anything, and say anything to win.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:41 pmComment by Rodham Gin — March 13, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
ginny?
March 13th, 2008 at 1:42 pmYeah, and Shrub’s record was exemplary before the (s)election of 2000…
Absolute.Complete.Shite.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:43 pmEh. Everyone already knows that FUX is nothing but the mouthpiece for the 4th Reich.
Perhaps Herr Karl is eagerly anticipating cramming his piggy bulk into a spiffy new brown shirt and shiny jackboots.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:43 pmRodham Gin, could you show us where KO has been advising Obama and the dollar amount sent by KO to Obama’s campaign. If you can, then we’ll discuss that. If not, you show your ignorance and your goosestepping right behind the turd blossom.
But you don’t even see all what you step in.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:44 pmWhat about Hillary Clinton’s implied endorsement of Geraldine Ferraro’s vile and racist comments about Barack Obama? Heck, she didn’t even ask Farraro to leave…
March 13th, 2008 at 1:46 pmWhat lack of morals does this show for McCain? Rove destroyed his 2000 campaign with lies but the Straight Talk Express will do anything to get into the white house.
We’ve seen that show already. Time for change we can believe in and a 71 year old white male republican that has lived inside the beltway for 20+ years is not it.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:47 pmMarch 13th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I wonder if Rove can keep McCains poll numbers as low as he has Georges with his endless partisanship and smear?
March 13th, 2008 at 1:49 pmWill MSNBC identify media whore Keith Olberman as a Omambi operative?
Comment by Rodham Gin — March 13, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
Dunno… is Olbermann financially invested in McInsane?
Like Rove? Care to answer THAT, Rotgut?
March 13th, 2008 at 1:52 pmObama is “inexperienced†is “and not fit to be commander in chief†and has “too thin a record to be considered a serious candidate for president.†[The O’Reilly Factor 03/12/08]
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By Rove’s yardstick, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, and even his buddy George W. Bush weren’t fit to be Commanders-in-Chief, either. Each one of them had less political experience than Obama when they first ran for President.
Just more empty spin…
March 13th, 2008 at 1:56 pmHow does Mike Wallace sleep at night?
March 13th, 2008 at 1:56 pmOlbermann is not a political advisor Gin.
Hey Gin, why did Laura Bush call Rove a necessary evil?
Maybe she thinks hes vile? Same letters. IELV Nice to see that light going on in your head huh Gin?
March 13th, 2008 at 1:58 pmAs much as I hate to pass up another chance to slam Faux News, not identifying Rove as a McCain backer pales next to putting the architect of the “permananet Republican majority” on the air as a political contributor to begin with. By putting any active political operative on your payroll you are pretty much conceding your status as a propaganda outlet. Even the typical Faux viewer can probably figure out that he isn’t remotely objective. They presumably just do not care.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:58 pmRove’s yardstick. That’s good. Rove is a hack, he’s the most repugnant part of republican.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:00 pmWhy isn’t that fat slob dispensing his advice from a prison cell. Traitor.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:00 pm– Obama is an “inexperienced senator with very liberal views, who’s out of the mainstream of American politics.†[The O’Reilly Factor 03/12/08]
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It always cracks me up when the extreme loony right considers themselves “mainstream”, and everyone to the left of them (most of the country) is considered “very liberal”.
But in a way, it’s kind of gratifying that the wingnuts are expending a lot of effort to trash Obama — it shows they’re scared.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:00 pmWill MSNBC identify media whore Keith Olberman as a Omambi operative?
Comment by Rodham Gin — March 13, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
What’s Omambi?
Oh, do you mean Umami, the so-called “fifth taste?” Cause I don’t think Keith Olbermann is a glutamate supporter…
March 13th, 2008 at 2:02 pmI agree paleolib. Rove can be forever tied to the worst president this country has ever seen, “The Math” that was so fantastically wrong, the illegal use of private emails for govt. business and so much more that not tying this ideological cancer to McCain by a fake news channel isn’t earth shattering.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:02 pmI think Omambi is a Japanese signee trying to break in with the Yanks this year. Keith is a huge baseball fan you know.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:04 pmNice to see the light finally go on about the Clintons. Who has been saying for years how vile they are?
Comment by Rodham Gin — March 13, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
Uh, wingnuts? The Clintons are “vile” because they tend to behave like Republicans when they’re under pressure. They’re “vile” on a scale that ranges from good people over to wingnut neocons, but they’re a heck of a long way from your end of the scale, cheapgin.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:06 pmNice (NOT) to see Usama Gin Rodham here sullying up the thread with her usual blather.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:07 pmI’d be glad to identify Rove.
He’s a low life, uneducated, vile, despicable, unprincipled, hack of a political assassin.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:09 pmI guess Rove has to do the math again for McSame, just like 2006.
I was for Edwards, but the MSM killed that.
I was undecided about Hillary and Obama, until Hillary started slamming Obama and praising McSame, that was the deciding factor for me.
Obama will win, he is running a very level headed, intelligent, gentleman’s campaign.
Hillar is running a Rovian Campaign and I do not approve.
Obama gets my support now….hope Edwards gets in a AG.
Bush/Cheney/Rove
March 13th, 2008 at 2:13 pmHague Trials ‘09
There is nothing necessary about Karl Rove. Nothing. If Republicans would use the truth instead of spineless hacks like Rove he wouldn’t be more than a used carsalesman.
My appologies for insulting all the used car salesmen.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:13 pm32 – and he’s one of YOURS, Ginny! Doesn’t that make you PROUD???
Idiot.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:13 pm“McCain will be seen if the question is who should be commander in chief, John McCain will out distance his Democratic competitors.â€
Unbeknownst to this cretin there are a great many other duties involved in being president than just being the great, omnipotent, czar of the world commander-in-chief.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:14 pmMaybe because he’s necessary and evil. What’s the mystery?
Comment by Rodham Gin — March 13, 2008 @ 2:10 pm
For once, Laura was half right. And Rove isn’t necessary.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:20 pmthis is good – Faux News and Pigboy in the same sinking boat – It’s a 2-fer!!!!
March 13th, 2008 at 2:22 pm“… it shows they’re scared.”
Comment by missmolly — March 13, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
True…
What’s that famous quote from Gandhi?
March 13th, 2008 at 2:22 pmFOX is not just Republican propaganda. It’s DLC Democrat propaganda, too. And Juan Williams is a propagandist make no mistake. When he talks about Republican issues he really sounds like one of them.
FOX is State Sponsored TV.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:22 pm“[T]he network establishes its credentials as the Republican Party’s mouthpiece.â€
If FAUX news has credentials, they are of their own making.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pmWhat’s that famous quote from Gandhi?
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — March 13, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
You may need to be a little more specific:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
March 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pmTRoS?:
“I think it would be a good idea.”
Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
March 13th, 2008 at 2:25 pmActually, this is a favorite:
March 13th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I think this one is very germane to a Karl Rove thread:
March 13th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Can ya HATE this pastie face fatass ANYMORE…..damn he is a AZZWIPE!
March 13th, 2008 at 2:29 pmPigboy & Fuchs Noise, a match made in Hell, but delivered here on Earth.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:30 pmThanks for the Ghandi quotes.
Truth is self sustained. Rove is just a stain.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:32 pmAny memorable GWB quotes?
March 13th, 2008 at 2:33 pm“Where are my F’ing sandals women?â€
As long as we’re quoting Ghandi.
“Diane Rodham Ginâ€
Comment by Rodham Gin — March 13, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
I don’t think he ever said that. It would be rather uncharacteristic coming from the man who said this:
March 13th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Any memorable GWB quotes?
Comment by hellinabucket — March 13, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
Check The Zoo regularly. We have a “Hail to the Chimp” category near the top of the page that is nothing but GWB quotes.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:35 pmFrom the looks of this photo, quasi-retirement is certainly not agreeing with puffturd KKKarl. He’s blowing up before our very eyes. I guess his forthcoming indictment which he expects before the end of the year is moving him toward food in a big way?
March 13th, 2008 at 2:37 pmRove is just a stain.
Comment by hellinabucket — March 13, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
Shouldn’t that be shitstain?
March 13th, 2008 at 2:37 pmtoaster – maybe this is why men fear women so? Without women, it’s true that men would not be.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:38 pmforgot about that website. thanks for the reminder gummitch.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:38 pmHere are some of Bush’s greatest hits. And ya gotta love that picture!
March 13th, 2008 at 2:38 pmhttp://bushwatch.com/english.htm
Hats off Mr. Evil. Even a $hitstain is too much of a compliment for the likes of this human devil. I can’t wait to see him in a jumpsuit sitting in prison.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:39 pmHere’s one of my faves, hellinabucket:
“I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture … and we are leading this fight by example.”
Quoted in “The Dark Art of Interrogation,” The Atlantic Monthly, October 2003
March 13th, 2008 at 2:40 pmFar AND balanced. Neat.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:41 pmWill MSNBC identify media whore Keith Olberman as a Omambi operative?
Why should they. Is Olberman on Obama’s team? Is Olberman an Obama consultant? Does Olberman advise Obama? I have even heard Olberman criticize Obama on occasion. So why should Olberman be identified as an Obama operative?
March 13th, 2008 at 2:41 pmRove is just a stain.
Comment by hellinabucket — March 13, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
Shouldn’t that be shitstain?
Comment by Mr. Evil — March 13, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
I wouldn’t limit him to just fecal matter. vomit, discharge and sweat are just some of the other exceptable forms of stains that resemble “The Math” man.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:41 pmCome on TP, be fair. If Fox had to identify all of the conflicts of interest of its contributors, there would be no space left on the screen for the essential scrolling banner informing us of impending communist/terrorist attacks and the whereabouts of missing white women.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:41 pmtoaster – maybe this is why men fear women so? Without women, it’s true that men would not be.
Comment by OsirisHusseinOsiris — March 13, 2008 @ 2:38 pm
I believe so…
Ok, one more Gandhi quote – this is perhaps my favorite:
March 13th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Comment by A Patriot Acting — March 13, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
Shrub said that. Damn. He’s got a lot of explaining to do if he actually meet the maker he believes in.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:43 pmthat’s meets.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:43 pm#
that’s meets.
Comment by hellinabucket — March 13, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
Hey, maybe tomorrow we will be able to edit our own posts!
March 13th, 2008 at 2:47 pmI don’t think even the bull queers in prison would touch Karl’s big white mushy butt. But if anyone ever deserved to be butt raped (and nobody does), it’s Karl Rove.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:47 pmIt always cracks me up when the extreme loony right considers themselves “mainstreamâ€, and everyone to the left of them (most of the country) is considered “very liberalâ€.
But in a way, it’s kind of gratifying that the wingnuts are expending a lot of effort to trash Obama — it shows they’re scared.
Comment by missmolly
I really wish I had bookmarked a survey I read a while ago. It asked people about their opinions on health care, social security, the economy, the war, etc. and a majority of the people polled came down on the side of Democratic views. So, that pretty much proved that it is Rove and the neoCONs who are out of the mainstream.
And you are quite right, missmolly, the right wing is terrified of Obama. Look at how hysterical the right wing trolls are becoming. I just hope that Obama survives long enough to become our next President. I worry every day about all the right wing whack jobs there are running around out there who would consider themselves a patriot if they assassinated Obama. They are as bad as the suicide bombers.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:48 pmIs it just me or does rover look like the kid that always got beat up and laughed at in high school???
March 13th, 2008 at 2:49 pmHow does Mike Wallace sleep at night?
Comment by Guido OBGYN Lover
Simple, he lacks a conscience as do most Republicans.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:49 pmMs Gin is trying to smear Gandhi?
wow. that’s pathetic in too many ways to count.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:50 pmHey, maybe tomorrow we will be able to edit our own posts!
Comment by Nature Rules — March 13, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
Yes! Now that is a great feature I’ve always wanted here. I hate when I type away, post and check and find out I left out an entire word that totally screws the context. And yes, nature does rule.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:50 pmMaybe because he’s necessary and evil. What’s the mystery?
Wow, this pathetic troll has finally uttered a truthful statement. She has admitted that Karl Rove is evil.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:51 pmRodham Atta Gin
it fits, alright.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:51 pmComment by Bilbo Hussein Baggins — March 13, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
Like I said earlier the “angry lone nut” is being constructed and programmed as we speak.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:52 pmThere are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
Comment by gummitch
Wow, he just described the Republican party.
March 13th, 2008 at 2:54 pm71 – That very information is contained in Michael Moore’s book, “Stupid White Men”…there’s a very well sourced and documented section detailing that Americans ARE – whether they admit/know it or not – truly liberal.
Good stuff.
~A
March 13th, 2008 at 2:57 pmI worry every day about all the right wing whack jobs there are running around out there who would consider themselves a patriot if they assassinated Obama. They are as bad as the suicide bombers.
Comment by Bilbo Hussein Baggins — March 13, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
From The Onion — Nation’s Presidential Assassins Still Undecided
March 13th, 2008 at 3:00 pm“Fox News Refuses To Identify Karl Rove As McCain Adviser” because it would blow his cover within the Clinton campaign.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:18 pmRove’s statement on O’Lielly saying that; “Obama is inexperienced, not fit to be commander-in-chief!”
March 13th, 2008 at 3:20 pmWas he trying to be funny, look at the boob that is Commander-in -Chief now?
Exactly what experience did Lil w bring to the table in ‘99-’00 that qualified him to do anything much less than be the countries Commander – in – Chief?
Come on trolls, let’s hear it from you, exactly what did Bush bring to the table that qualified him to do anything, except work in a circumcision ward, and only for tips!
Please tell me, before I drop dead of old age waiting!
qualified him to do anything, except work in a circumcision ward, and only for tips!
March 13th, 2008 at 3:25 pmBWAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAH!! ROFLMAO!!
Nice one Klem! Very Skeltonesque!
Mr. Straight Talk sold himself to the highest bigger. He got in bed again with the Bushies. And even a caveman blind in one eye knows that Tubby Mctreason Rove dusted off the playbook for McCain’s campaign.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:32 pmBilbo; I agree that Obama is being set-up for assassination. It was in the news the other week that people are no longer being screened for weapons at his appearances. This is a prescription for murder looking for a place to happen. I can not help but dread we may see another RFK-type slaying.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:34 pmHow are any republicans squaring themselves with the notion they are going to support a candidate that they thought was worse than Bush in 2000?
Worse than Bush. Let that soak in.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:37 pmMcMaverick is a 7-diamond republican, exclusively yours for only $4,300 per hour.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:41 pm“Fox News Refuses To Identify Karl Rove As McCain Adviser†because it would blow his cover within the Clinton campaign.
Comment by J — March 13, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
Huh?!?
Seems like identifying him as a McCain operative would make PERFECT cover for any imaginary role within the Clinton campaign.
Maybe I just don’t understand the concept of “blowing one’s cover”?
March 13th, 2008 at 3:47 pmI wasen’t going to post on this one at all…Had to close my eye’s and get past the picture of this evil bloated troll, rover make’s me ill to even look at..Think he should be in a prison celler somewhere and food put through a slot in the door so no one has to look at him…..Maybe it is time to put all the troll’s in the same cell with this sick sob…..He is their leader after all…Blessings
March 13th, 2008 at 3:48 pmComment by ralph the wonder llama — March 13, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Well, first off, it was just a joke… kind of.
She has been running her campaign exactly as Rove would have it. If he secretly has a role within her campaign, it would blow his cover to her campaign, because this divisiveness does play right into a win for McCain (if he does in fact have a role in the McCain campaign).
But, let’s face it, she is the closest thing the righties have to a real candidate at this point. Everyone knows that McCain is not one of theirs, but Clinton is as corporately owned as they come. McCain has mostly just been pandering as if he is, but she has merely been pandering as if she isn’t.
But like I said, it was just a joke… kind of.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:59 pmgood lord, ThinkPROGRESS…
WAY TO CATAPULT THE OBAMA BASHING PROPAGANDA…
YOU WON’T DO A STORY ON THE RACIST TONES OF
THE HILLARY CAMPAIGN, BUT YOU’LL GET YOUR OWN
PUNCHES IN THERE…
CRAP.
am i the only one who caught that? 4/5 of those examples above…
A new and improved ThinkProgress!… we’ll see!
March 13th, 2008 at 4:58 pmam i the only one who caught that? 4/5 of those examples above…
Comment by katy HUSSEIN katy — March 13, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
No, katy, but when one of their own left TP to campaign for Hillary, what can you expect? -I forget who exactly it was… Judd, I think, but I could be wrong.
March 13th, 2008 at 5:12 pmYeah, unfortunately, it was Judd:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/26/bye-bye-judd/
March 13th, 2008 at 5:17 pmmouthpiece? How about “blatant Republican propoganda machine”?
March 13th, 2008 at 8:02 pmRove looks just like posessed Linda Blair in “The Exorcist”.
March 14th, 2008 at 1:34 pmAs much as I hate to pass up another chance to slam Faux News, not identifying Rove as a McCain backer pales next to putting the architect of the “permananet Republican majority” on the air as a political contributor to begin with. By putting any active political operative on your payroll you are pretty much conceding your status as a propaganda outlet. Even the typical Faux viewer can probably figure out that hp zt4000 battery,hp dv9000 battery he isn’t remotely objective. They presumably just do not care.
October 15th, 2008 at 6:06 am