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Woodward scolds Rove for fixing elections with Soviet-style ‘Politburo’
Author Bob Woodward on Sunday blasted Republican strategist Karl Rove for creating a super PAC that acts as a Soviet-style “Politburo” with the de facto power to decide Republican primaries. During a panel segment on Fox News Sunday, Rove insisted that he had founded the Conservative Victory Project super PAC…
Fox News CEO issues orders to keep Rove off the air
Fox News Channel (FNC) is trying to reinvent itself in the wake of the 2012 election, and, according to New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman, phase one of the network’s makeover plan has already gone into effect. Chief of programming Bill Shine, acting on orders from network head Roger Ailes, has…
Bill Moyers: Rove is ‘the undisputed maestro of the politics of plutocracy’
On his Friday show, Bill Moyers examined the resurgence of Karl Rove, who went from being damaged goods during George W. Bush’s presidency to an unparalleled bagman for the Republican party. “Bush’s Brain has become Boss Rove, virtuoso of what BusinessWeek calls ‘partisan money management,’” Moyers said, before calling him…
Gingrich rips Rove for joking about murdering Akin
Former Republican presidential candidate New Gingrich lashed out Karl Rove on Sunday over the suggestion that Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) could be murdered to prevent Republicans from losing the Senate race in Missouri. During a Thursday fundraiser for his conservative super PAC, Rove had joked that Republicans should find a…
Phyllis Schlafly calls for Rove resignation over Akin ‘murder’ remarks
Anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly has taken to her blog at the website of the Eagle Forum — the anti-LGBT organization that she founded in 1972 — to call for the resignation of Republican political operative Karl Rove over remarks he made about U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO). Thursday morning…
Maddow mocks Karl Rove for bizarre non-sequitur about Obama’s lawyer
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night expressed how entertained she was by Karl Rove’s recent appearance on Fox News. Last week, Obama’s campaign lawyer filed a compliant with the Federal Elections Commission over Rove’s organization, Crossroads GPS. He claimed the organization was unlawfully hiding its donors from the public…
Rove group hits Warren for being too pro-Wall Street
The Massachusetts Senate candidate Wall Street most fears is now the target of a new advertisement that attacks her for being too pro-Wall Street. Welcome to backwards day. The ad, released by former Bush strategist Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS group, suggests that Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren was somehow responsible for…
Bush v. Perry
Digby is skeptical about Karl Rove all of a sudden singing "Kumbaya", going on Fox News and denouncing the Christian right, saying we're not a "Christian nation", because we're a nation that has Jews, Muslims, and non-believers (and others, I'll add). Digby's take is that Rove is being a pure…
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