Posted on 05/11/2008 7:35:12 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
The Pundit Analyzing Obama? Some TV Upstart Named Rove By JIM RUTENBERG and JACQUES STEINBERG
WASHINGTON — Late Thursday night, Karl Rove, “the architect” of the last two Republican presidential victories, was on his new television perch at Fox News, offering free advice to Senator Barack Obama as he closed in on the Democratic nomination.
Any move by Mr. Obama to declare victory before the last of the Democratic primaries in June, Mr. Rove said, would alienate Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s wing of the party. “That’s a mistake,” he said. “That just is rubbing the loser’s nose in it. And a lot of those supporters will remember it by November.”
In the Obama campaign war room in Chicago, where Mr. Rove’s talking head was just one of several across six television screens, his counsel was taken with a heavy dose of salt.
“Wouldn’t taking his advice be a little like getting health tips from a funeral home director?” said Mr. Obama’s press secretary, Bill Burton.
The bête noire of the Democrats has turned pundit, and his old nemeses — along with those who used to cover him in the news media — do not always know what to make of it.
One year ago, when he was still a deputy White House chief of staff in the Bush administration, Mr. Rove was more likely than not ducking news organizations.
Now, he has joined them, as an analyst for Fox News and a contributor to Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal. A book is in the offing, too. (Still no word on a radio show, but there was an NPR appearance late last week.)
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Clinton's team will harass Obama - UNTIL he accepts her as his VP. He needs to resist ...
Rove gives political advice to OsamaObama. What a frackin’ ego.
No worry. Obama thinks he knows better. What a frackin’ ego.
Oh get a grip! Rove can give political advice if he wants to .. he’s not a part of the Obama or Clinton campaigns - but he has run a couple successful ones and that gives him standing to comment on some other campaigns.
Rove’s ego has nothing to do with it .. too bad you can’t seem to figure that out.
NO one in politics can be successful in politics without what you refer to as a “frackin’ ego”.....fact of human life.
That doesn't even make any sense, what does being a funeral director and its the relationship to health parallel the advice of one political advisor's suggestion to the opposite party?
Good grief, what a jerk Rove is, bye bye Rove.
Why is he a jerk? For doing political analysis on TV? There are few people who are as qualified as he, and he is actually very clinical in his analysis. No bias shows - he is pretty fair.
“After one editor dealt with him,” Mr. Meacham said, “the editor called me and said, ‘This just complicated my world view. I may like Karl Rove.’ ”
So, they are biased for hiring Rove, but not for having an editor who hated him before he met him.
“the Washington Post columnist David S. Broder complained about what he saw as a worrisome trend. “One day they are calling journalists to write favorably about their prominent political patrons,” Mr. Broder said, “and the next minute they are sitting at the table with journalists and indistinguishable from the journalists.”
This is why the MSM is losing it. They are elitists who think we are frigging idiots.
Anyone who sits and watches Rove and Begala and Stephanopolis knows they aren’t journalists.
What he should be complaining about are partisans who pretend they are, like Moyers and Matthews.
The left is the enemy whtin. Rove can say whatever he wants but as a conservative I can also say that Rove by his commnets or actions etc. is not a conservative.
Even worse, he’s boring.
Exactly. I like Rove. He’s extremely smart, geekish even but very sharp. Who could forget his early comment on Hillary...”tenacious but fatally flawed candidate”.
Bumper-sticker material. I enjoy watching him on Fox.
Love The Rove.
“Bumper-sticker material. I enjoy watching him on Fox.”
Apparently you and I are not alone. Hannity last week said that Rove is very well liked by the Fox Audience.
Rove is terrific as a commentator. He’s got an impish sense of humor that plays very well. Loved it when he used his “high-tech” whiteboard to illustrate his points.
Rove was the best of the so called experts/pundits on Fox in the last election.
“Rove is terrific as a commentator. He’s got an impish sense of humor that plays very well. Loved it when he used his “high-tech” whiteboard to illustrate his points.”
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