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Kristol shreds Karl Rove’s super PAC over anti-Hillary Benghazi attack ad
Conservative Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol is lashing out at Karl Rove and his American Crossroads super PAC for using last year’s attacks in Benghazi to attack former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 presidential race. During a Fox News panel segment on Sunday, Kristol complained that…
Disclosing donors hurts political attack ads, but keeping them secret hurts worse: study
Supporters of the DISCLOSE Act now have empirical evidence to back up their claims, thanks to a study published April in American Politics Research. “Despite the rise of anonymity in political advertising, there has been little empirical work examining the effects of disclosure of donors on the persuasiveness of campaign…
Tea Party group pushes back against Rove’s ‘big spending’ super PAC
Competing war chests could lead to well-financed and bitter Republican primaries in next year’s congressional campaigns A leading Tea Party group has launched a new fund to oppose “big spending” candidates from both parties, in a move that comes just days after a push by moderate Republicans against unelectable right-wingers.…
Karl Rove launches initiative to keep tea party candidates out of elections
The organizers of American Crossroads hope to bring electoral victory to the Republican Party by defeating unelectable tea party candidates in GOP primary races. The new super PAC, called the Conservative Victory Project, will be run by American Crossroads president Steven Law and is supported by former Bush political adviser…
Rove’s super PAC promised IRS it would spend ‘limited’ money on election
By Kim Barker, ProPublica In a confidential 2010 filing, Crossroads GPS u2014 the dark money group that spent more than $70 million from anonymous donors on the 2012 election u2014 told the Internal Revenue Service that its efforts would focus on public education, research and shaping legislation and policy. The…
Rove group American Crossroads makes $10 million ad buys for Romney
A group that supports Republican candidate Mitt Romney launched a $10-million series of advertisements Tuesday, mainly in battleground states, knocking President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats. American Crossroads, a non-profit group known as a superPAC, made an $8.3-million buy for ads that feature small business owners blasting Obama’s “bad decisions”…
Rove group jokes Obama official who had seizure was drunk
A conservative super PAC founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove was forced to apologize on Monday after the group suggested U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson was drunk when he had a series of car wrecks that were later determined to be caused by seizures. A statement by the Los Angeles…
Cultists Of No Personality
Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove and his merry band of propagandists at Crossroads are going after our “celebrity” President again, just like the GOP did in 2008. Nothing new under the sun, except for the $300 million in Obama-bashing they plan to do in the next six months. A new ad…
Colbert: Raw Story ‘twisted my words with misleading articles’
Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert called out Raw Story Thursday for reporting that he had explained how money could be laundered to Karl Rove’s American Crossroads SuperPAC. Unlike American Crossroads, Rove’s Crossroads GPS is a 501c4 organization that does not have to disclose its donors. Crossroads GPS can then transfer donations…
Rove group buys ads to haunt Obama’s jobs tour
Crossroads America, the conservative super PAC run by former Bush strategist Karl Rove, has decided upon a new media strategy: following President Obama wherever he goes. As the president travels the country in support of his jobs plan, the group will release ads bracketing his appearances in local media markets.…
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