Karl Rove's sly deal with Fox »
Posted By Aidenag 4 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsFox News hosts routinely introduce Rove as a "former senior advisor to President Bush," "the architect," a "political wizard" and a "famed political consultant." But never has he been introduced as he should be -- as an informal advisor and maxed-out donor to John McCain's presidential campaign.
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jdhatl4 months, 2 weeks ago
don't trust that slimy weasel for a second. You better get those paper trails working, they will definitely do their best to steal this one too
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slate4 months, 2 weeks ago
LOL you better start sending out directions on how to actually use what ever kind of voting device to the idiots in your party, as well as your usual regisrtions to dead people.
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MRCOFFEECAKE4 months, 2 weeks ago
Nice start to a new election. "Idiots in "your party"..
How about true paper accountability?? How un-American!
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SwampFox-82nd4 months, 2 weeks ago
It cracks my narly arse to high heaven thinking you are an adult, LibsRFunny. What did you do while playing with your brain, go to college??? And you can tell Rove that too.
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lum-chate4 months, 2 weeks ago
I heard so many bad things about Rove but I didn't form an opinion on him until he became a Fox regular. Rove has better instincts in the political arena than most pundits. He has analyzed each primary effectively & gives the listener a birds eye view of why each primary has gone this way or that.
He seems neither for Clinton nor Obama which is more than I can say for the Obama cheerleaders on MSNBC. Whatever his past, he's a good listen. Very imoressive!
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MRCOFFEECAKE4 months, 2 weeks ago
There's no paranoia. There are very few people who understand politics who do not understand what a scumball he is and how he has damaged the integrity of a once proud conservative Republican party.
(seen the enrollment figures lately?)
Do you still really believe that Bush is a conservative?
What convinced you?..Bigger government?
Unbalanced budget? Rampant illegal immigration (during the most internally combustible period in American history)?
Poor economic policies and a falling dollar?
No efforts to lower fuel costs??
Those were my conservative values and they have been abandoned..
Karl Rove had nothing to do with it, right?
I'm just a paranoid liberal if I still hold those values, right?..
The only thing YOU have the right to call ME is a FORMER REPUBLICAN@!
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MRCOFFEECAKE4 months, 2 weeks ago
He needs McCain to win. The next President either opens Bush's secrets to the public or seals them forever..They have much at stake.
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Charlson4 months, 2 weeks ago
Nope, it's not his knowledge of politics but his tactics and character I don't like. And yes, Rove will have the opportunity to fling his manure but will it stick?
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ProudBlueTexan4 months, 2 weeks ago
From this story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080521/pl_nm/usa_p...
"A Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday showed Obama, an Illinois senator, opening an 8-point national lead on Republican John McCain as Americans grow more anxious about their economic prospects and the country's direction.
The number of Americans who believe the country is on the right track fell from 23 percent to an abysmal 16 percent, as uncertainty about the economy and rising gas prices fueled growing doubts about the future."
Obama '08
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MRCOFFEECAKE4 months, 2 weeks ago
Howard Dean is a guest as the head of the DNC..not a host.
Carville is a liberal commentator and he would be a better comparison.
(even though he's not responsible for screwing up our democracy for what could be decades)
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walden34 months, 2 weeks ago
Just further proof of the demise of the Media. What ever happened to journalism? Now we have two people with opposing viewpoints who just try to yell over one another, or we have people with stake in the matter telling us what to think or we have a horse race - she said he said kind of thing.
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DoseASpinoza4 months, 2 weeks ago
Rupert Murdoch was never mainstream media. He built his fortune on scandal rags and bought his way to legitimate outlets, then turned them into scandal rags and political operatives (like Faux News).
As for Rove, this should not surprise anyone. But it should be loudly disclosed as proof that McCain would be just a third term for Shrub. As if we could not figure that out from "Bomb, bomb, bomb, Bomb, bomb Iran."
Any mud he can sling at Obama or Clinton should be dismissed as McCain propaganda, because propaganda is all Rove can do. He's a one-trick pony and his trick is bitterness and dirty tricks.
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THOMNH624 months, 2 weeks ago
the only problem is that he is correct most of the time with is analysis weather you like him or not, besides I would like to see how much that spittinh sputtering Mathews and Bloberman have given to O bama, who they are clearly in the tank for
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aniokly4 months, 2 weeks ago
No, it will be a first, McCain term, because the Democrats put up some Leftist, who will re distribute your wealth no matter how little you make, to those who make nothing. He will destroy your healthcare system, and surrender you to third world dictators. Well, that is after he gets permission from his lovely wife Bruno.
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Beau78904 months, 2 weeks ago
aniokly:
Guess what? All of your predictions about what would happen if a "leftist" was elected have come true under BUSH.
"Redistribute your wealth no matter how little you make":
We have seen enormous increases in debt that people not even born yet will pay for, while giving hundreds of billions to war contractors. Almost $4 TRILLION.
"Destroy your healthcare system":
Healthcare costs have quadrupled over the past eight years, and middlemen--I mean insurance companies--are allowed to pick the healthiest individuals to cover, while reducing claims benefits to their customers.
"Surrender you to third world dictators":
We are rely on Chinese goods with no protection from poisons they contain; we've outsourced our jobs to third world countries; and we are more dependent than ever on Middle East oil. While many berate Obama for saying he'd talk to Hamas or Iran's Ahmadinejad, we've been begging to negotiate with North Korea.
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MRCOFFEECAKE4 months, 2 weeks ago
ani: Will you get a new (usable) brain from the leftist
under their surely socialist health care agenda???
Do you even realize that the only President in the history of this country that has steered our ship into an iceberg is George Bush, the man for whom you have relentlessly and inexplicably served as an apologist?
Stop the fear tactics..You sound like Joe McCarthy.
You sound like a fool. Only your handful of hateful pals here (and we all know who they are) will absorb your idiotic comments. You people have served as accomplices long enough.
Your act is old and your accomplishments have brought us to the brink of disaster. We know you won't smarten up, and you certainly won't help clean up your mess, so PLEASE, just shut the hell up..You've caused enough problems!
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ProudBlueTexan4 months, 2 weeks ago
IOW, both 'conservatives' (though 'conserving' what, I don't still know)
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antibrainwasher4 months, 2 weeks ago
Fox news and the Bush administration, its the same thing.
Unbelivable how these neocon facists came to power. The damage they've done, and the damage they continue to do.
Point of view journalism. Ad hominem attack. Destroy science and rationalism. Promote theocracy, creationism, and religious wars. 4300 dead young americans. 30,000 severly injured. Tony Snow, Carl Rove, Shotgun Dick, and the Chimpanzee.
These people are unprincipled relativists, they are the junction of neocon and evangelical theology.
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Poulenc4 months, 2 weeks ago
That Rove supports McCain is hardly news. Ditto that he's contributed to his campaign.
As loathsome as the (porcine) Mr. Rove is, it strikes me that "full disclosure" of his situation would in this instance be academic. What viewer of his Fox News hosting would rethink his or her opinion of Mr. Rove's "talking points" by such a revelation?
Fox is not exactly noted for the catholicism of its viewers--and those non-choir members tuning in wouldn't embrace Rove anyway.
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antibrainwasher4 months, 2 weeks ago
So the neocon bush administration and Fox australian billionaire Murdock is attacking General Electric and Microsoft NBC as they broadcast from the Rockefeller/GE building from New York, where accross the steet is the Wall Street Journal, now also owned by the News Corporations owner, Murdock, publisher of the Weekly Standard.
The fourth leg of democracy is done. GAME OVER.
The american democracy is bought and sold and gamed by the subversive 100% zionist owned and operated american media, both right and left, movies, magazines, newspapers, TV programming and news, radio, even this netscape/AOL/Time Warner.
The game is now American Capatilism. Its the new religion that evangelicals and neocons worship.
Oh well, what the f..., I give up, yes, I'm a beliver, God created the universe 4000 years ago. Praise the lord, and praise his only son, the half jew/half god. All praise the baby demi-god. Let the rapture begin, call in the air strikes.
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Poulenc4 months, 2 weeks ago
Uh, anti, you'd make your points with more authority/credibility if you dropped the antisemitism.
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MRCOFFEECAKE4 months, 2 weeks ago
I like this comment better than your one above@!!
But yes, the question is: Does anti hate Jewish people all over the world, religious Jews only, jews who live outside but support Israel, Israeli Jews, only Israel, or the Iraeli concept of Zionism??
Is there hate there, or dislike, or a different combo of the above??
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not2needy4 months, 2 weeks ago
Is this the Christian conservative that the cons are so very proud of? That is just about as good as it gets with them! Karl Rove is a weasel, an evil troll, and i am ashamed to admit that he is a citizen of this country.
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not2needy4 months, 2 weeks ago
Karl Rove made the comment that he knew the secret to winning the 2008 election, but that he wouldn't share it with anyone but the repug nominee. As long as Karl Rove is allowed to interfere or be a part of the political process in this country, we will NEVER have another fair election. The course has been set, and the democrats are just sitting back and letting it happen.
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Origin4 months, 2 weeks ago
This "man" is a weasel and deserves a gun shot to the face. His lies, fraud, and destructive politics has ruined this country, the republican party, conservatives amonst many other things.
Karl Rove is NOT important, relevant, and intelligent. He is a weasel, a louse and a piece of dung.
He needs to be in jail for lying about the Valerie Plame case.
His scumbag politics, along with Cheney's is facist in nature, anti human in approach and childish to say the least.
Drop dead rove.
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SwampFox-82nd4 months, 2 weeks ago
Cool Origin, would you believe that Carl Rove, before he was crowned all seer of the GOP, was in fact a bug whacker in Texas??? And a Democrat??? Now you know why he switched parties!!! He felt he was "stepped on" by Democrats...
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cushi4 months, 2 weeks ago
Put him in a quail suit and send him on a hunting trip with his good buddy and possible sperm donor, Dick!
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Poulenc4 months, 2 weeks ago
But what could the Dems do, Not2, to prevent Rove from enacting his "winning" strategy (see above)?
This is a real question.
Co-opt imagined Rove tactics--that is, take them for their own?
Do whatever smear-proofing they can? But, you know, once the horse is out of the barn....
I suppose the only remedy is, in best Boy Scout fashion, to be prepared....
..'cause Rovian smearfear is item #1 on the Repub's agenda.
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SwampFox-82nd4 months, 2 weeks ago
If any sane man or woman Republican is still with that group of terrorists, you my dear American are NOT SANE...NOR AMERICAN!!! There, GOP, now you may pull my plug from Propeller. The truth will not be unplugged. May I suggest a lobotomy???
Airborne, all the way
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SwampFox-82nd4 months, 2 weeks ago
N2N, you inspire my nasty-$^%& to be better: as a vet, as an American, as a citizen, as a human. If fellow members knew what you and my Brother, your husband, endured since the Vietnam War, there would not be one unbeliever on Propeller.
One day, be so kind as to share with these cool folk what it's like to witness "Hell, Redeaux." That's the very thing Senator McCain lost; all his Brothers and Sisters who ever served in this Continental American force against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, just on his behalf. Don't bother counting, we stopped counting in 1946.
Our country has been taken away from all of us -- Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians. Any idea how many?
AND, by less than an Army, whipped our a$$ off the table. Wake Up, Tune In, Change. Humanity deserves our best efforts to take-back what was taken away.
Peace, we voted for it, fought for it, deserve it -- our Constitution AND Bill of Rights.
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Tcaros4 months, 2 weeks ago
Karl (Hess) Rove is the particular Nazi bstard who hopes to destroy America.
Americans will vote out any Republican who supports Bush. We need to vote the Republicans out to save this country.
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