Newsweek is hiring Karl Rove to be a spokesperson for the “right” to balance Markos of Daily Kos. As the man who took Bush’s approval rating from 88% to 25%, I think he’s a perfect.
And nice to know they’ll have someone “civil” to balance out those foul-mouthed bloggers:
Eventually, I met with Rove. I arrived at his office a few minutes early, just in time to witness the Rove Treatment, which, like LBJ’s famous browbeating style, is becoming legend but is seldom reported. Rove’s assistant, Susan Ralston, said he’d be just a minute. She’s very nice, witty and polite. Over her shoulder was a small back room where a few young men were toiling away. I squeezed into a chair near the open door to Rove’s modest chamber, my back against his doorframe.
Inside, Rove was talking to an aide about some political stratagem in some state that had gone awry and a political operative who had displeased him. I paid it no mind and reviewed a jotted list of questions I hoped to ask. But after a moment, it was like ignoring a tornado flinging parked cars. “We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!” As a reporter, you get around—curse words, anger, passionate intensity are not notable events—but the ferocity, the bellicosity, the violent imputations were, well, shocking. This went on without a break for a minute or two. Then the aide slipped out looking a bit ashen, and Rove, his face ruddy from the exertions of the past few moments, looked at me and smiled a gentle, Clarence-the-Angel smile. “Come on in.”
What do you want, Newsweek hired Michael Gerson soon after he left the White House. Commitment to the truth doesn’t seem to be high on the agenda for their pundit qualifications.
(photo by bright strangely)
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Jane!
Welcome back to DC. Looks like you and Howie had fun in LA with the WGA writers…
was one of the bennys, a young male escort?
what bothers me most of all about the hiring of carl rove is that he gets to assume a position of authority, that people will actually defer to his opinion even though his opinion has been nothing but wrong
So now we know why they announced Kos, first. Smoothed the way for the real show.
EPU’d from last thread:
Biodun @ 34
Biodun @ 2
We did. Only thing missing — my stinky poodles, who desperately need grooming.
perris @ 4
My bold
That is his primary qualification doncha know? (See Little Billy Kristol as example the first)
Rove will also be contributing quail and sausages to nifty Newsweek staff shindigs…
Let’s have Rove’s wages garnished…
Newsweek staff (some of ‘em) will quail at the sausage-making process as committed by Rove (The Red-handed).
Just our lucky day!
At three on CSPAN 3 we have the Rove himself:
IN WASHINGTON
White House Politics
Karl Rove, Deputy White House Chief of Staff (2005-2007), discusses the upcoming elections during C-SPAN’s Distance Learning Class today. The class uses broadcast technology to bring together students from The University of Denver, Pace Univer-
sity and George Mason University.
link through CSPAN
What a safe choice, our Karl.
;>)
I just canceled my Newsweek subscription. I will not have Karl Rove in my home, even in a magazine.
Last night Kos seemed to be hinting his opposite would be a big deal. Oh my. Since Kos is an activist, does that make anything unethical Karl might do in this role ok?
Elliott @ 12
There are some things I WILL not do – I have my standards, and watching Rove is one of them. I absolutely detest him and he should be banned from TV for contaminating the airwaves.
Laura Doty:
LOL! And clever…
Newsweek already has Howard the Duck they didn’t really need KKKarl
Good lord. You’d think he’d be too toxic to touch with a barge pole.
Laura Doty @ 11
Heh.
And so is KKKarl now considered an “expert” in politics and elections? Career path in the US these days never ceases to amaze me.
Muddy Waters is turning around in his grave…
Rove “working” for Newspeak…hmmmm, that may work in Turdblossom’s legal favor.
Most Government attorney’s get real hesitant about going after folks in the 4th Estate.
And I betcha Turdblossom has “suddenly” had an ephiphany about support for a “Federal Shield Law”.
Why, he might even embrace the ACLU.
Turdblossom, a member of “some” standing in the liberal media.
Now up is truly down.
I guess KKKarl can be considered an expert in failed attempts at historical realignments…
msmolly @ 14
Sounds like a good move. I canceled Time after they gave Kristol a column.
Just another reason why in 20 years you will have to explain to teenagers that there used to be these magazines called Time and Newsweek.
I guess this’ll put an end to Rover’s gig teching the New Math at Regent University.
Quebecois @ 22
Pardon my obtuseness but what the hell does Muddy Waters have to do with KKKarl Rove?
darkblack @ 13
I have to look — this is the triple dog dare from Suzanne
SunnyNobility @ 15
I have a feeling that Markos won’t let him get away with much. Something about having truth on your side.
Damn, he’s like the undead, he won’t stay buried.
I’m rooting for Kos,
with a wooden stake,
in the studio.
darkblack @ 13
Is that with or without electroshock?
Just more evidence that the media is completely controlled by Liberals…
Elliott @ 29
I’ll never be able to go to the dentist again.
You’d think the counter balance to Rove would actually be Benedict Arnold.
-GSD
Hugh @ 26
“Read? What’s that? The satellite’s computer just downloads the info to my chip.”
Teenager, circa 2030
At first I misread the title – thought it read “News Hour Hires Rove.”
Whew!!!! That was close!
Yech….
How about a comedian counterpoint?
Liddy on the radio. Rove at Newsweek. Makes perfect sense. /s
the piece o’ shite will not last 6 months, (knocks on wood)
GSD @ 35
Have to disagree. Since Rove IS a modern day Benedict Arnold (betraying the country and all that), the counter-balance would be a Nathan Hale or Patrick Henry. IMNSVHO
From the top link:
So, Karl . . .
(1) Tell us what it’s like to be on the inside of a grand jury room, and make public your testimony as you gave it to Patrick Fitzgerald . . . five times.
(2) As a political professional, tired of being derided, tell us how much you, the Bush White House, the RNC, and your various professional political friends spent on polling around various White House policies each year since 2000. Then we can compare those numbers with what Newsweek, the WaPo, and the media spent. How sure are you that the conventional media outspent the rightwing Wurlizer on polls?
What will Newsweek do after Karl is indicted? Will it be a huge soapbox for Karl to protest his innocence?
I am frustrated and saddened by this. Once again big media joins with the protofascists.
Can KKKarl even write? He’s supposed to be churning out columns…
Ladies and gentlepeoples, another reason why I stopped paying for Newsweak over a decade ago.
Word is they are looking at bringing OJ Simpson on board to write a column about healing marital riffs too.
Good for Markos, but I ain’t bloodying my hands with that slag rag.
-GSD
Biodun @ 44
Ace reporter Jeff Gannon to the rescue. (sorry, that should read -ass reporter…)
Loo Hoo @ 30
From your lips to God’s ear.
dakine01 @ 39
Huzzah.
-GSD
Wow.
“For instance, there was Karl’s desire to have John cozy up to the conservative evangelicals, with whom DiIulio was having problems. DiIulio recalls Karl telling him to bury the hatchet “and start fighting the guys who are against us.” DiIulio says he responded: “I’m not taking any shit off of Jerry Falwell. The souls of my dead Italian grandparents are crying out to me, ‘That guy’s not on the side of the angels.’ ” Rove backed off, DiIulio recalls, and said, “Look, those guys don’t really matter to this president.”
dakine01 @ 39
I’m agreeing with your NSVHO, dakine
Mad Dogs @ 32
Why, it’s so safe you wouldn’t believe it.
Elliott @ 34
You know the drill
;>)
OT via the Daily Muck at TPM
Republicans acting hypocritically about sex? I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
Wow, first Time unleashes William Kristol on the reading public. Now Karl Rove will turn out an occasional column for Newsweek.
Craptastic?
According to the one article cited in the post, everyone was so afraid of Rove.
Markos is afraid of no one.
darkblack @ 51
and No One can hit a nerve like darkblack
SunnyNobility @ 47
From the article, it doesn’t sound as if Markos and Karl will be taking each other on in dueling columns. Instead, Newsweek has hired two columnists — one conservative and one progressive — who will write on whatever they want, with no dialogue required. It’s the publishing industry political quota system, and nothing more.
Actually, there is another possibility. It could also mean that everyone but you recognizes that you have screwed up royally.
We need to convince Elanor Clift to put Skinny and Sweet in Rove’s coffee. (Figurative Skinny and Sweet of course)
darkblack @ 51
Flossing never looked better.
KKKarl will be joining these august Newsweek columnists: Ellis Cose; George Will; Mark Hosenball; Jonathan Alter; Michael Hirsh; and Fareed Zakaria.
Keith hearts only one of these. Guess which one?
Inside the bowels, so to speak? Oh, dear…
The comments sections on Markos’ and Karl’s new columns will be . . . interesting.
I don’t go through them much, but I’ve never seen any of the columnists show up. If Markos wants to make a splash he’ll show up and mix it up.
What it’s like inside? Dark. Very, very dark.
Laura Doty @ 62
Dark. And dirty.
Personally, I think the Karl ‘n Kos Punditocalypse has the potential to knock Leary and Liddy right off the porch of the public consciousness…But that’s just me, a starry-eyed dreamer.
;>)
Biodun @ 59
Alter appears regularly on Countdown. But I don’t think he adds much, IMHO.
Bush is inflicting his lackeys upon America like a plague of locusts. I throw shit at the TV everytime that oily Gerson shows up to shill his shamoriffic shit.
Now Turdblossom is going to be lurking about too. I was hoping he’d be relegated to the halls of AEI and trolling restrooms at young college Republican events.
-GSD
dakine01 @ 28
I’ve always found KKKarl very effective at muddying the waters. Weird francophone humor. Sorry.
The lesson I thought I learned from 1994ff was that Rs always eventually shoot themselves by going to extremes. It just takes awhile for the public to figure it out.
I certainly misunderestimated how long it would take the public to figure out W after 9/11. Fear is a powerful motivator to turn people to authoritarians, and the Rs exploited it maximally.
Rudy’s success to date suggests that fear is still partly operative as a motivator for voters. However, the Rs keep going OTT even more. Tancredo’s TV ad is a recent example.
I am hoping that Rove’s Newsweek columns contribute to the OTTness.
Markos had a good point about this at his wee little web site:
“Newsweek actually got this right, for once. They balanced out a movement progressive with a movement conservative. In years past, Rove’s “balance” would’ve been Bob Shrum. Now, they’re apparently starting to realize the difference between a movement partisan and an establishment hack.”
The pendulum continues to pick up speed.
ATTACKKKKK!!!!
darkblack @ 64
whistling past…
Rove to anyone but the base:
Tune Out, No Turn (for you), Drop Dead.
Biodun @ 9
I think he will be hiring some “reporters” to “deliver the sausage” to himself
Quebecois @ 67
No need to apologize. I just didn’t get the connection.
And many of us here make obscure connections on things.
Elliott @ 70
…the Roveyard?
I wish Jonathan Alter would trim the little Charlie Brown tuft on his forehead. I always hear the Peanuts music when he talks.
-GSD
Also, WTF will KKKarl actually write about? I’m quite curious. Has anyone actually read anything he’s written? A column has to be coherent and argue some form of thesis, with consistent evidence and positions, and with concrete examples of events and ideas.
According CNN, the very liberal MSM, Commander Codpiece is thinking again (oh shit!)…opening military airspace to relieve the holiday air travel congestion.
Nothing could possibly go wrong there.
kdh22 @ 77
Hey, look on the bright side. That probably means the bombing of Iran will not occur during the holidays.
kdh22 @ 77
He wants to double bump fees too. The transportation secretary looks like she’s been shot at and missed and shit at and hit!
GSD @ 75
It might be that he’s appreciating whatever hair he has left after losing it all during chemo….
Biodun @ 76
pfft. So 20th century, my pal! Krl luvs hm sme blckbrry. ’s gr8.
w8 & C!
Biodun @ 76
My bold. Has anything you’ve ever read by a wingnut had such characteristics?
Biodun @ 76
My bold
Who says? Have you ever read some of the tripe coming from supposed columnists like Kristol or Joke Klein or Broderella etc? Making things up out of whole cloth seems to be the easiest way to become a columnist these days.
Tithonia @ 80
Offah.
I didn’t know that and was certainly not aware while making a cheap joke.
Please mop up after me.
Sorry.
-GSD
Rove: Following the “turds” back to their source.
Biodun @ 76
I know you are but what am I?
;>)
Biodun @ 76
It doesn’t matter if KKKarl can write. They can always use a ghost writer. Newsweek got him for the buzz. Looks like a smart move.
darkblack @ 86
Praise be to Darkblack! I shoulda known better than to be drinking and clicking on your links! Gotta clean the monitor….again.
OT..Ruh Roh
ARG: Huckabee And Romney In Dead Heat In Iowa
link
That would finish Mitt.
Such
fieldyfealty…F him and Newsweek. Boycott time on that. Gonna ask my brother to cancell his subscript.
Jane,
Looks like Karl Rove’s Karma account is accumulating quite a lot of, um, what’s the word? I’m sure there’s an appropriate Buddhist expression for it. Maybe whatever it is will come around and bite him on his [I forego the temptation to add a few choice adjectives!] derriere one of these days.
I wonder if there is a poor soul somewhere who has been worked over by both Rove and Addington? Surely that would qualify as cruel and unusual punishment, and a clear violation of the Geneva accords.
Bob in HI
Why the heck would the Presdizent announce to the world that military airspace in the northeast would be open to commercial aircraft. You would think that it would be information confined to air traffic controllers and the airlines themselves.
That seems rather boneheaded.
Steve-AR @ 89
And Romney has been running non-stop ads all year long. Huckabee has not aired an ad yet.
eCAHNomics @ 78
Always look on the bright side of life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo
dakine01 @ 83
My bad. Disclosure: I never read these people. Sometimes I skim, that’s all. Years ago I used to read Joe Klein. I stopped shortly after his anon fiction on the Big Dawg came out.
I read Frank Rich and (sometimes) MoDo, Howard Kurtz, and Alter.
This is why indictments, convictions, and impeachments count. Fitzpatrick failed, and Congress is failing as we type. Try and find a Democratic candidate who promises a war crimes tribunal, or even a truth & reconciliation commission. These are criminals, loose among us, and they gain credence with every bestowal of legitimacy.
Badwater @ 87
Read somewhere that Newsweek recently had to take a significant cut in its ad rate base. Need to pump up the circulation?
Alter and Anna Quindlen are my Newsweek faves –but where’s Quindlen? She’s not on the website. there is however a new online column from Patti Davis–I give her thumbs-up, too.
And tsk, tsk, tsk, such language from Rover. Just how’s that gonna work with the Revvvvvvvrrrrruuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnddddddddddddd Meacham?
Biodun @ 76
Mega doses of FUD? Perhaps he’ll have private “editorial” help.
LS @ 93
What else do you expect?
Steve-AR @ 89
The Republic electorate is strange. They previously selected a pretend Christian (Bush). Yet they appear to have a problem with Romney because of his type of Chritianity. As an accpetable type of Christian, Huckabee’s there to fill the vacuum. The likelyhood of governing successfully is not even a consideration.
It all seems pretty non-Christian.
Newsweek if getting Karl but is Karl getting an editor and a fact checker? Is Newsweek going to give Karl the Judy miller treatment?
Is Newsweek going to let KOZ nail Karl? Is the Newsweek editorial board going to stand up for the truth or let Karl Lie because its an opinion piece?
Has anybody ever looked into whether Karl actually ever fucked the guy like he’d never been fucked, and if so, how?
Prairie Sunshine @ 100
Not all of his friends and family can fly Air Force One doncha know? These people must get to their respective parties, and on time dammit! The koolaid is only gonna last for so long.
Veritas78 @ 97
Not to mention getting Sibel Edmonds a decent platform.
Librarian @ 103
A dull deer antler?
Librarian @ 103
LOL. Of course, the correx expression is: We will f*ck him over.
LS @ 93
And your question is ?????
Librarian @ 103
Yikes! Brutal!
No one really, really wants to know that.
The Christian Right wants none of their guys being blamed for an election they know they will lose. Huckabee is just going to half to wait another 4 years the Christian Right will apoligize for being wrong to support Rudy.
Librarian @ 103
He had other priorities.
;>)
Librarian @ 103
“never been fucked” is the telling phrase although IMAGINED he was fucked might be more accurate.
darkblack @ 111
You’re truly sick – and I love it !
Librarian @ 103
should really be investigated
Maybe Markos can ask Karl what ever became of his Leather Slave (for those who don’t know about Karl and his Slave go to dig through the Rude Pundit’s archives).
Twain @ 108
It’s almost like he is invitng an attack. With commercial aircraft in the military corridors, we would be hindered in a response. This is like calling the burglar to tell him you left the front door unlocked.
I think darkblack is the happiest about this whole announcement. “Oh, the material I’ll have to work with . . .”
Me, I’m buying stock in towels. We’re going to need them to wipe up the spills.
Biodun @ 76
Maybe libertylee has a purpose in the grand scheme of things afterall, ghosting for KKKarl, certainly has the intellect, the knowledge, and the words to a T (as in T-wit).
kdh22 @ 109
Karl Rove can go *uck himself!
Things Come Undone @ 110
If Huckabee wins or comes close to Mitt, money and fundie support will roll in. Pat Robertson will say The Jeebus visited him and said to support Huckabee. Huckabee has been surging with no money. Rudy’s plan of playing “rope-a-dope” with Mitt in IA and NH will blow up if Huckabee is strong going into South Carolina.
looseheadprop @ 116
I’m glad you said it instead of me…*g*. The other thing about it is that it is announced the day before everyone starts traveling. Gives “scrambling” a new meaning.
The Pentagon will open unused military airspace from Florida to Maine to create ‘‘a Thanksgiving express lane’’ for commercial airliners. Seems like a good move. We don’t want Prince Jeb to have a difficult time getting to Kennebunkport for the royal festivities, do we?
OT – John
BonerBoehner gets emotional on the floor again today.That guy (and I use the term loosely) needs an anti-depressant, a prefrontal lobotomy or a conscience…or all of the above.
Badwater @ 122
Exactly my thoughts, BadH2O.
LS @ 93
The version I saw was that it’s airspace they have reserved for future (or past?) use, but they aren’t using now.
kdh22 @ 123
You cannot have a conscience and be a Bush Republic. He’ll have to go with some combination of choice one and two.
kdh22 @ 123
Did he cry again? He either has to leave the Early Times alone or get some kind of help.
msmolly @ 14
Good decision. I don’t even want to know what kind of wingnut porography Karl Rve will produce.
Peterr @ 117
I plan to do all I can to support such a moral, honest, fair-minded and patriotic individual as Mr. Rove…Just as I do for his former employer, Peterr.
;>)
Karl can write about “the math”. Karl can write about how we are winning the war with Iraq. Karl can write about how *vomit* hot Bush is when he is wearing a leather Jacket.
Karl can write the never before revealed truth about how Condi and Laura forced him out of the White House because he spent more time with the president.
P J Evans @ 125
Oh how the mighty have fallen. The U.S. prez must now make himself relevant by this kind of foolishness. And the great unwashed will probably be greatful.
So catching up. And reading the last posts. Did anything good come out of the Senate Committee today?
How about a little conspiracy mixed with history?
When George H W Bush got help from his George Walker (and the CIA) when he started Zapata Oil back in the early 50s (1953?) he also had another investor, Eugene Meyer, owner of the Washington Post which, in turn, owns Newsweek.
G H W Bush US Senate info
If I remember correctly, it was this same Washington Post that lead the drive to out Nixon’s dirty laundry with Mr. Woodward on the job. Bush, at the time, was chairman of the Republican National Committee. One of Nixon’s threats was to reveal everything he knew about the Bay of Pigs and the whole Texas thing if Richard Helms didn’t lean on the FBI to curtail its investigation into the people involved in the Watergate break-in. The CIA does not take kindly to threats to its existence (see Dallas, 1963 and the same George H W Bush).
To tie this whole thing together, Bob Parry was the first journalist to expose the Iran-Contra goings on that were being run out of the vice president’s office. At the time, he worked for the AP. When he wouldn’t stop reporting on what was going on out of sight but under everyone’s noses, he was fired. He soon found work with Newsweek magazine. That job was short-lived as he would not leave the Iran-Contra crimes alone and he wasn’t too shy about implicating Bush in, not only Iran-Contra, but the illegal tampering with the 1980 election known as October Surprise.
The Bush family are old hands at committing federal felonies and walking away from them. It’s no surprise Newsweek would hire Rove.
Jane’s upstairs… And I’ve grabbed the zed…*g*
darkblack @ 129
Bonkers, I am still whistling past the Roveyard
Well, my Newsweek subscription is expiring and they’ve been bugging me to renew. I already had a long list of reasons not to, but this will top the list.
PS – WaPo owns Newsweek. Thus both subject to the same suckitude. E.g., Michael Gerson.
Jane Hamsher @ 7
Jane, I know a great “do it yourself” dog wash facility in the area. I’d even volunteer to do the washing. [Worked for many years in rescue, so MUCH experience with washing stinky dogs!!]
Elliott @ 135
Pick your moment, lest the moment pick you, Elliott.
;>)
Biodun @ 76
Whatever his writing skills, Rove’s GOPer connections are worth a bundle.
I look for Rove to orchestra a first class hatchet job on the loyal opposition, namely, Hillary, or even Ron Paul.
Peterr @ 42:
And Karl, tell us, “from the inside,” what happened to all those e-mails.
darkblack @ 138
lmao! thank you!
Elliott @ 141
so fitting
kdh22 @ 36
LOL!
If there is a god, he’ll get indicted for his part in the Siegel case and that will be the end of it.
Biodun @ 59
Don’t forget the dreaded Richard Wolffe.
Has anyone contacted KO and suggested Newsweek for tonight’s “Worst Person in the World”?
msmolly @ 14
Jesus, Newsweek? Quit that piece of crap in my freshman year of high school. Rove is a pig. A very tormented pig, is he.
redx @ 91
Send a copy of the cancellation letter to Warren Buffett @ Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha. Berkshire owns a big chunk of WaPo stock. He stood by Katherine Graham when husband Phil died and she had to take over WaPo.
Apparently Buffett hasn’t been asked to tutor Katherine’s son Donald, who now runs the Post [and has run it and Newsweek into the ground].
I sent Buffett my WaPo cancellation letter as a little “info” on his “investment” and will now do likewise with my cancellation of Newsweek. He generally likes to stay out of the affairs of the companies he invests in, but I think a little “here’s why I’m not buying your product” might at least be read.
Just another gig Karl is going to have to give up after the 5 million white house emails are turned over by the NSA to the Congressional Investigatory Committee looking into the judicial attorney firings scandal.
Another Bush White House Lie: The E-mails
Glad it wasn’t Ann Coultergeist, seen enough of her smearings, at least Karl is a known divisive reicht-wingnut.
Congrats karl, enjoy it while it lasts…until the indictments and trials begin for obstruction of justice, conspiracy to defraud elections, not to mention illegal warrentless wiretapping, treason in outing covert CIA operations during a time of war, organizing the illegal ‘iraq war’ invasion and occupation, torture and war crimes and manipulating intelligence based on lies.
Gad!
That’s why I don’t see how we can let men continue to run things!
They are so Viagra fueled these days that they don’t even know what they are doing.
Forget about Newsweak, Time, NYT, WaPo and all traditional media. They are no longer guardians of the nation, honest brokers of the 4th Estate. They have sold their soul for profit, priviledge and access. Stories that should be covered aren’t. Important stories that are covered are buried deep inside the publication. It’s time to find a means by which writers and investigative reporters stories reach the general public. During WWII an underground press was born in Nazi occuppied countries. Handbills on walls provided people with the facts that was denied them by a censored and corrupted press. The traditional MSM in the States doesn’t need the government to tell them what and what not to print. They have become masters at self censorship. It’s time writers such as Jane Hamsher, Digby, Greg Palast, Joshua Micah Marshall et al have a wider audience beyond the blogs.
You say, “Commitment to the truth doesn’t seem to be high on the agenda for their pundit qualifications.” and I go DAH! Newsweek is owned by the media conglomerate neo-cons at the Washington Post.
It is all about the show… which Daily Kos brought us. I always thought Kos was a Republican at heart. Certainly the damage he has done by putting forth conservative candidates that are nearly impossible to remove will insure that the status quo continues for some time.
At least at Newsweek we KNOW who butters his bread.
Re: the pic –
Rove’s portrait is supposed to be inside the bowl, not on the seat.