Karl Rove gets simple facts wrong in his WSJ column.
Karl Rove gets simple facts wrong in his WSJ column.
In his Wall Street Journal column today, former Bush political guru and current informal McCain adviser Karl Rove criticizes Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for using “his money advantage to launch the air war,” claiming that this “may not be as smart as it appears”:
Mr. Obama has used his money advantage to launch the air war. Starting June 20, Mr. Obama spent $4.3 million for 10 days of a televised, biographical ad covering 18 states. Mr. McCain countered on Monday with roughly $2.1 million for a week of ads in 11 states. Mr. Obama has now volleyed back, expanding his buy to 21 states for two additional weeks at a cost of $15 million – half for his original bio ad and half for a new ad on welfare reform.
But Rove’s analysis ignores the simple fact that it was actually Sen. John McCain who went on the air first. As the New York Post wrote on June 7th, McCain unveiled “the first major ad of the general-election campaign.” View the “launch of the air war” here.
I'm looking at all of these Robert and adding them up. I add up to a Republican Senate and Republican House. You may end up with a different math but you are entitled to your math and I'm entitled to THE math.
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The sad thing is, if you look at the way the Dem controlled Congress has often behaved, it might as well be Rep and Rove wasn’t too far off.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:55 amThe rover is becoming as irrelevant as much of the BushCo Bunch; the only problem is they are still criminals waiting to be prosecuted.
Maybe KKKarl can get a gig writing his Column for the Faux Sreet Journal from Leavenworth or the Hague. I bet he does a mean perp walk with that oudgy arse of his!
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:55 amIt all adds up: Mr. Rove left college a couple courses shy of earning his degree. What was one of the needed requirements he failed to tend to?
Math, of course.
So, really, we can’t hold the poor guy responsible for his ignorance; he comes by it naturally.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:56 amLook, you can’t really criticize Rove for getting simple facts wrong. If the facts contradict his message, something;s gotta go, and it ain’t gonna be his message.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:59 amtime for karl to
check his own numbers
and go on a diet.
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karl and rush.
diabetes is just waiting
around the corner for them.
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good luck.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 pmonoclea Says: The sad thing is, if you look at the way the Dem controlled Congress has often behaved, it might as well be Rep and Rove wasn’t too far off.
Actually, they don’t really control anything – that requires a veto-proof majority. They barely have more votes in the House, and ever since Lieberman went “Indie”, they have a one-vote majority when he’s on board, and a tie when he isn’t. Not much power to do anything except compromise most of the time…
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:01 pmHis brain is as mushy as his big, doughy face.
What a revolting specimen of the human race.
All fat, ugly, and full of shit.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:02 pmIt’s kind of cute the way you say “Karl Rove gets simple facts wrong in his WSJ column” — as if we are talking about a befuddled fool who just hasn’t done his homework properly.
No, we are talking about a man who calculates every move before he makes it, just to make sure the orchestra plays the tune as he conducts it. Getting “simple facts wrong” is more likely “Rove deliberately lies in order to make Obama look like an bullying aggressor with his campaign money.”
And we all knew that the “air war” would start about now anyway — why is Rove making a big deal out of it?
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:04 pmRove is entitled to a baseball bat shoved up his A hole…sideways!!!!
Your entitled to your math and I’m entitled to THE math…..F’en idoit…..no wonder this country is in such a mess….Presidents right hand man can’t do simple math.
The days are slowly closing in!!!
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:05 pmI can also find nothing on the page that identifies Rove as an advisor to the McCain campaign.
In the interest of full-disclosure, this should be a minimum requirement on the part of the WSJ editorial page if they are going to allow Rove to comment on the presidential race.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:06 pmRovian Universal Math Equation:
E = GOP/D
(Everything equals Republican Party over Democrats)
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:07 pmAin’t no dumb like Republican dumb.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:07 pmRove should take a hint from Scott McClellan. His recent atonement changed him from a sickly dough boy into a human being with blood flowing through his veins.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:09 pmunbelievable, we’re going to need way more than a veto proof majority to overcome all the blue dogs who reside with the repubs.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:09 pmunbelievable, I think Scott McClellan was redeemable because he is basically a caring, conscientious human being. Rove? Not so much and, therefore, I can’t think of anything which would lead Rove to admit, let alone atone, for what he has done and been about.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 pmisn’t that the Point? WSJ’s only purpose is to lie to the public.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:13 pmJust looking at Tubby McTreason’s face makes me wanna puke.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:14 pmAnother “Must Miss” in the WSJ Editorial page is the one by Feith defending the Invasion of Iraq using 9/11 9/11 9/11….
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:15 pmonoclea Says: unbelievable, we’re going to need way more than a veto proof majority to overcome all the blue dogs who reside with the repubs.
I tell everyone I know – start firing all the people in office “representing” us until we start to get people who will do their jobs. It’s the price of Democracy to be viligant. With the price of gas threatening to go even higher, as the Recession deepens, people might just be willing to start a Revolution.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:16 pmPatrioticLiberalChristian Says:
“…I can’t think of anything which would lead Rove to admit, let alone atone, for what he has done and been about.”
How about a little water boarding? It’s ok with the Repubs, really!
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:16 pmPatrioticLiberalChristian Says: unbelievable, I think Scott McClellan was redeemable because he is basically a caring, conscientious human being. Rove? Not so much and, therefore, I can’t think of anything which would lead Rove to admit, let alone atone, for what he has done and been about.
I don’t know, McClellan was quite a loyal Bushite for a pretty long time before he woke up… But I will give you the fact that Rove may not even be human in the first place.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:18 pmRobertSeattle Says:
“Another “Must Miss” in the WSJ Editorial page is the one by Feith defending the Invasion of Iraq using 9/11 9/11 9/11….”
Well there you go! That explains Guliani’s lack of 9/11 references on the China oil thread. Feith borrowed Gulliani’s “9/11’s” for the day.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:19 pmA Patriot Acting Says: How about a little water boarding? It’s ok with the Repubs, really!
There’s a really excellent article by Christopher Hitchens in Vanity Fair about being waterboarded (he actually experienced it so he could report on it). He said that it is definitely torture. As he described what he went through, it sounded like torture. Perhaps it is high time to let the Cons experience their own devices.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels – Nazi propoganda minister
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:22 pmA Patriot Acting, I am so against any form of torture or capital punishment that I wouldn’t want to see either used even with Rove. Now, I’d agree to sending him on an exploratory mission, with his neocon buddies, to Mars to see if asparagus can actually be grown there using the ice found and if life can be sustained thusly.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:28 pmRove should be ashamed that he is the only real reason there will be a Democrat in the White House in 2008. When he paired his pathological lack of principles with his notion of a “permanent Republican majority” he ended up with disgrace and Republican failures that will take years to fix.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:31 pmHe didn’t get his facts wrong, he simply lied, and he knew he was lying, it’s how KKKarl cooks the books, he always puts a little twist in, that bit of a dig, he’s republican which means he is scum, republicans are lying scum.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm“The Architect”
Yeah, right…
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 pmWith Rove as a WSJ commentator, you can now line your bird cage with this once-proud paper. Rove lies every time he opens his trap. He should be in jail.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:47 pmZooey Says:
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“The Architect”
Yeah, right…
– You mean Tracy5 right?
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:51 pmKKKarl,
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm‘You’re entitled to your opinion, but not your own facts’.
-Sen. Joe Biden
dbadass Says:
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You mean Tracy5 right?
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Um, no. Whatever she said. ;)
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:07 pmEither way you look at it the REICH is gonna cry like a baby because Obama has the cash that the REICH considers their`s, they just keep forgetting that we have a grassroots internet campaign where America wants change not another SHRUB term.The REICH believes that by all rights that they should have the W.H..KKKarl is a sore loser just like the rest of the REICH………
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 pmTanqueray makes another attempt at Republic humor…
they just don’t do humor well, they must not get the concept.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 pmDitch Mitch KY Says:
“With Rove as a WSJ commentator, you can now line your bird cage with this once-proud paper.”
I tried it. My parrot refused to comply. She said it would be redundant.
(dick-tap) Tanqueray and Larry Craig
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pmAgree with #7 & 17.
Why does TP continue to ruin our days with a photo of this traitor & liar? Unfortunately, we all know what he looks like and have suffered enough. Running the picture just extends his power. The only photo we want to see is one of him clad in orange, entering prison in leg/hand chains.
Here we try to run a BFZ (BushFreeZone) which includes Slick Dick, Rumy, Rover-boy & a few others. Magazine covers, book jackets, newspaper front pages have all gone into the shredder.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:27 pmSomeone ought to shoot that doughy bag of crap.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:34 pmWhat a horrific picture of pigface! He has like two feet of solid forehead, ekkk.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 pmYes, today’s WSJ — articles by Rove and Doug Feith (on why we went to war in Iraq). I skipped them simply by looking at the by-line. Seems to me they had more than seven years to convey their messages. Now that they have amply proven they deserve no credibility, it saves me the time from even reading the opening paragraph.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pmI see Tanky’s trying to make the best of a bad situation for his peeps. The GOP has had control of all three branches of government for most of this century thus far. What’s the result? Mired in two wars, both of them against third-rate opponents and taking longer than it took us to defeat the Nazis and Japan. Dismal economic record. Record debt, both public and private. Unprecedented assault on civli rights. Unprecedented politicization of the Justice Department. Unprecedented loss of respect around the world.
Tanky’s response? “So what? We’ll be back!”
Like most conservatives, Tanky’s hoping that they’ve screwed things up so badly that not even a competent Democrat can fix ‘em, and they’ll get to blame all of the results of their policies on Obama.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:17 pmIt must have been a ‘pre-emptive’ air war, per the boosh doctrine
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:22 pmTanqueray Says:When your stupid, ignorant, uneducated, drug addled and FAT opponent continues to defeat your intelligent, educated,clear thinking and THIN standard bearers how can you not see the humor in the situation?
When your party’s mantra is “The ends justify the means,” and there’s no end to its ends — including illegally politicizing What-Used-To-Be-The-Justice-Department,” then it becomes tricky for truth and honor to win.
However, as holds true in life, truth ultimately wins out, and even those who initially believed otherwise are forced to admit their preference of the light of truth to the darkness of evil.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:30 pmKarl Rover wouldn’t know truth if it slapped him in the face. What disgusting human, well if he is human.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 pmQuestion: Has Karl Rove gotten anything right since Aug. 2005?
It seems to me that he’s been as consistently wrong as Bill Kristol.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:19 pmTP – to me, “gets things wrong” implies that he made a mistake – as opposed to deliberately stating incorrect info which he knew to be incorrect/
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:04 pmRove is an Enemy Combatant, and should be summarily shot on sight. Right mr. boooosh?
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 pm