Shuster Tweets Rove: "next time, try defending yourself 'like a man,' - mano y mano"

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http://twitter.com/Shuster1600

# @karlrove Also, next time, try defending yourself "like a man," - mano y mano as I've repeatedly invited you to do. 6pm eastrn tonight.about 23 hours ago from web
# @karlrove Thanks for your response to hypocrisy watch. You will definitely want to tune in tonight at 6pm for mine.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29754006/

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SHUSTER: Welcome back to 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Every night on this show, as we did earlier in this one, we feature a segment called Hypocrisy Watch. Our most frequent focus has been former Bush adviser Karl Rove. For example, Rove recently criticized the Obama administration for increasing the size of the federal debt, even though Rove and his Bush team colleagues turned record surpluses into record deficits.

Anyway, before each segment, I sent Karl a Twitter message, asking him to come on and defend himself. This weekend, I received the following Twitter direct response: “Re 1600. Wait until the book. You‘re in there. Signed Karl Rove.”

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SHUSTER: If he is completely honest about the CIA leak case, wouldn‘t the key information be obviously the conversation with Bob Novak? What role exactly did you play, Karl, in the effort to smear Joe Wilson and his wife? Joe Wilson being a key administration critic of how the war was sold.

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1. What is this?

Someone asking detailed, direct questions of an august personage from the previous adminsitration? Has Chip Reid of CBS been notified of the "tone" of Shuster's comments and twitters? This certainly doesn't look very respectful of the Office of Former White House Chief of Staff!