… proclaims Karl Rove runner up as “rookie of the year” for their “Best of the Press” awards:
Runner-Up: Karl Rove as Fox commentator
After resigning from the Bush administration last summer, Rove has been dabbling in political commentary. He’s made dozens of appearances on Fox News, and he contributes to Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal on a fairly regular basis. As one of our participants wryly observed, “Everybody freaking loves him now. Go figure.”
I’m not quite sure what sense of “everybody” they’re using here; I don’t love Rove. It’s interesting that there’s nothing here about the merits of Rove’s commentary as opposed to its ubiquity. I would think that the runner-up rookie of the year would be someone knows for his or her insights not simply for showing up as a conservative hack.
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