Yesterday, Karl Rove appeared on Fox News’s Hannity and Colmes to discuss the presidential election. During the segment, Sean Hannity mentioned that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) recently pointed to electoral maps made by Rove to show that she was the “stronger candidate.” Hannity joked, “Are you now an unpaid adviser for the Hillary campaign?” Watch it:
No, Sean, Rove is not an unpaid adviser to Clinton’s campaign. He is, however, an unpaid, informal adviser to Sen. John McCain’s campaign (R-AZ), a fact that you and your network still refuse to disclose.
Transcript:
HANNITY: Hey, Karl, by the way, I don’t know if anyone’s brought this to your attention yet. But you know you have a new best friend out there, and her name is Hillary Clinton.
And Hillary was quoted as saying the following, Just today I found some curious support for the position that she’s the stronger candidate against Senator McCain. Well, one of the TV networks released an analysis done by, of all people, Karl Rove saying I was the stronger candidate. Someone got ahold of the analysis, and there it is.’
Are you now an unpaid adviser for the Hillary campaign?
ROVE: No, no, no. Well, her husband said something, too, and it — you know, it’s — it was really — they’ve been using my name, but generally in vain. So I mean it’s — it was a little unusual to hear Senator Clinton to use my name –
HANNITY: Yes.
ROVE: — without a derogatory adjective in front of it.
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