NY TIMES: That Pundit on Fox News? An Upstart Named Rove

[L. Coyote]

Of course, no mention of why this criminal was FIRED!!

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That Pundit on Fox News? An Upstart Named Rove
JIM RUTENBERG and JACQUES STEINBERG - May 12, 2008 - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/us/politics/12rove.html?bl&ex=1210737600&en=949dc013156ba36c&ei=5087%0A


WASHINGTON — Late Thursday night, Karl Rove, the architect of the last two Republican presidential victories, was on his new television perch at Fox News, offering free advice to Senator Barack Obama as he closed in on the Democratic nomination.

Any move by Mr. Obama to declare victory before the last of the Democratic primaries in June, Mr. Rove said, would alienate Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s wing of the party. “That’s a mistake,” he said. “That just is rubbing the loser’s nose in it. And a lot of those supporters will remember it by November.”

In the Obama campaign war room in Chicago, where Mr. Rove’s talking head was just one of several across six television screens, his counsel was taken with a heavy dose of salt.

“Wouldn’t taking his advice be a little like getting health tips from a funeral home director?” said Mr. Obama’s press secretary, Bill Burton.

The bête noire of the Democrats has turned pundit .....

.... another step in the evolution of mainstream journalism, where opinion, “straight news” reporting and unmistakable spin increasingly mingle, especially on television. .......

[spanone]

1. this just shows the bias of fixed noise....a propaganda wing of the right...nothing more

[marylanddem]

2. From the New York Times? Talk about the pot and kettle

Didn't the NY Times just hire that TV neocon asshat Bill Kristol?

[L. Coyote]

3. OPEDNEWS: Nightmare for the Democrats: Rove - the Mischievous Mastermind

Nightmare for the Democrats: Rove - the Mischievous Mastermind
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_theseeke_080513_nightmare_for_the_de.htm


Like Puck, a character in William Shakespeare's "Midsummer's Night Dream", Karl Rove's ability to create mischief in the lives of Democrats is well documented. His entrance into politics began on a national scale with the re-election campaign of Senator Wallace F. Bennett in 1968. Since that time, he has been a force in determining the historical saga of the United States with an uncanny ability to play upon the anxieties, distrust and fears of voters.

Rove was born on December 25, 1950 and by the age of nine was already thinking about politics when he decided to support Richard Nixon. It began a journey that eventually led to his role in the White House during most of the George W. Bush's presidency. By the time he was eighteen, when he entered the University of Utah on a $1000 scholarship, joined the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and through the University's Hinckley Institute of Politics, was given an internship with the Utah Republican party. His work on the Bennett campaign would bring him to the attention of powerful Republicans. During that period, he disrupted a rally held by Democrat Alan J. Dixon, who was running for Treasurer of Illinois and eventually won, by stealing 1000 letterheads from the campaign headquarters and printing false invitations to "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing" and distributing them to rock concerts and homeless shelters. Although he later described it as a "prank", it was an indication of things to come as he became a consultant to future presidents.

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