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 Karl Rove’s Newsweek GigPosted on Nov 15, 2007
It’s really only a matter of time, after a member of the current administration steps down, before he or she re-emerges on the political and/or cultural scene. Take Karl Rove, for example, who, not to be relegated to some contrived yet lucrative “consulting” position (not yet, at any rate), will write about the upcoming elections for Newsweek.
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By cann4ing, November 17, 2007 at 7:07 pm #
When is Congress going to seek enforcement of its subpoenas of this democracy-destroying criminal?
Report thisBy QuyTran, November 17, 2007 at 6:52 pm #
I’ll throw all Newsweek Mgazines I kept in trash bin
Report thisand never read this kind of garbage !
By Alice Nuffer, November 17, 2007 at 5:44 pm #
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I used to read Newsweek until I saw they hired Rove.
Report thisI sent a letter stating I would never pick up their magazine again. I did the same thing when Time named Bush man of the year. Havn’t touched it since!
The man is the lowest of the low, he dwells in the depths of hell which is where he belongs. He has ruined more lives and helped destroy this country. The only one proud of him is Lee Atwater and look what happened to that sleaze!!
By John Borowski, November 17, 2007 at 3:35 pm #
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Lend me your ears dearest people so you can hear so much better. Karl Rove has joined the British right wing talk shows. I sure it will be an iteration of all the right wing talk shows. He is going to brainwash the masses that god wants the riches’ asses padded and yours not. Then he will brainwash the nots to believe it.
Report thisBy Diana, November 17, 2007 at 3:05 pm #
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It’s frightening enough that a flat-out criminal propagandist is getting his very own national platform. What’s worse, this new platform will serve to legitimize him in a way that being in government never could. How long before the man’s filthy lies will be quoted all over the media as coming from ‘Newsweek columnist and former administration official, karl rove’?
Watch for the exclusive rove’ll give newsweek when he finds some horror committed by the democratic nominee for president (eating live babies? cavorting with animals?) just weeks before the election.
Report thisBy cann4ing, November 17, 2007 at 1:25 pm #
rowdy, asking whether Newsweek or Time is more progressive is like asking whether Cheney or Rumsfeld is more progressive. They’re both corporate propaganda rags.
Report thisBy Gregg Mitchell, November 17, 2007 at 11:32 am #
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I have just cancelled my subscription to Newsweek. Karl Rove is a criminal not a commentator.
Report thisBy DennisD, November 17, 2007 at 10:58 am #
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We want to give readers a feel for what its like to be on the inside, says Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham.
Jon - if you mean a prison cell - you’ve got it right. Why this clown is still walking the streets is a mystery to me.
Report thisBy GW=MCHammered, November 17, 2007 at 3:32 am #
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Why isn’t Яove in jail?
The American people for Bu$hCo’s delusions. Any flavor of media-pushed GOP or DEM is so far beyond “no longer acceptable” it’s ridiculous. We don’t want your Sleaze Nation!
Report thisBy rowdy, November 17, 2007 at 2:00 am #
for at least 20 years i subscribed to both time and newsweek. after 9/11 i saw the turn and no longer had any use for either publication. newsweek was still the more progressive of the two, so it was the last to be axed. it will be nice to see their subscription sales fall because of this.
Report thisBy Hammo, November 16, 2007 at 9:15 pm #
Once again we see the dark nexus of the news media and the Bush-Cheney administration.
It seems that nowadays, when we can read, see or hear real journalism in the mainstream media, it is an exception, rather than the norm.
Related info on this in the article ...
“Society of Professional Journalists Award to Judith Miller Helps Cover-Up?”
American Chronicle
October 27, 2005
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=3287
Report thisBy cann4ing, November 16, 2007 at 7:25 pm #
Kudos to Jeanine Maloff and waxman for cancelling their subscriptions. I can’t do that because I have never seen fit to purchase the corporate propaganda rag known as Newsweek. Perhaps people can broaden from subscription cancellation to a campaign that encourages everyone to boycott newsweek.
Report thisBy William Hambaugh, November 16, 2007 at 7:01 pm #
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I have subscribed to Newsweek for years now. They say their readers are “sophisticated enough” to do whatever. Well, maybe this ain’t sophisticated at all but I agree with Waxman. I have dropped Newsweek from my weekly / monthly subscriptions coming to my mailbox. Any media publication that will hire a low rent lier that outed one of our undercover agents and led the charge to politicize our department of justice and is responsible for an ex-Governor going to prison for 8 f-ing years for nothing, is just as low rent has Rove. In my opinion Newsweek just placed themselves in the same league as the “Globe” one sees in the supermarket on racks proclaiming things such as “Tuna gives birth to human infant”. Newsweek is just a entertainment rag now. Good riddence.
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By QuyTran, November 16, 2007 at 6:34 pm #
Are Karl Rove and OJ Simpson in the same category ?
Report thisBy Jeanine Molloff, November 16, 2007 at 5:57 pm #
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JUST CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION TODAY. ROVE IS NEVER ACCEPTABLE. ENOUGH SAID.
Report thisBy mary, November 16, 2007 at 5:22 pm #
Karl Rove will use this forum to distroy Sen Clinton if she is the Dem candidate. This man is a master at manipulation and lies. For every Democratic Progressive/Liberal who cancels, there will be 2 nutwingers drueling over every word this sheep herder has to say. It’s sickening. Rove should be in jail for outing a CIA Agent and lieing about it to a Fed Grand Jury! It will be generations before these cozy DC/Media sheep will be weeded out, and it might be too late.
Report thisBy Louise, November 16, 2007 at 5:22 pm #
Just when you think it cant get any worse.
Looking for all the world like an underdone sausage wrapped in cellophane, up from the ashes springs that Karl guy!
As has already been pointed out, at least [thank goodness] we wont have to listen to him. Karl’s speaking ability demonstrates with precision accuracy why he never ran for office. Hard to get people to vote for you when you put them to sleep.
Personally I think the man has been given far more credit than he deserves. If he has any genius at all, it’s in being able to smell out a corruptible politician from the next state. Which must be why, way back when he realized he wasn’t electable he switched parties and became a republican.
Karl did not invent political corruption and lying for political gain and stealing elections. Karl just went to work helping those who would. Then schooled them in his particular brand of general rot. Very successfully I might add.
The fact that he’s writing for a magazine may be an indication of the thoroughly corrupted RNC, and the republican candidates, eagerness to distance themselves from him. Like we don’t know it takes more than one to commit the perfect political crime.
Or maybe he’s hoping he’ll develop a “fan” base. That could come in handy if the Justice Department ever comes looking for him.
Report thisBy farmertx, November 16, 2007 at 3:48 pm #
Newsweeks’ claim that it will be up to its readers to determine if Rove is simply an apologist makes one wonder if we are to suspect their other writer’s of having an agenda other than telling the truth?
Report thisExpecting anything remotely like the truth from Pigpen is akin to thinking that Shrub has a clue.
Maybe they can snag OJ to write about getting along with your wife and solving business disputes.
By lawlessone, November 16, 2007 at 3:37 pm #
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Unbelievable! I understand Editorial Pages and welcome them, but is Newsweek planning to now feature a Liar’s Page in the publication? Why is Newsweek planning to fund for someone like totally discredited (and should have been indicted) Karl Rove giving him a (used to be) respectable forum in which to do his dissembling? Is the publication going to relabel itself Foxweek?
Unfortunately, this is more proof positive that journalism no longer has any likelihood of being the instrument that might save our democracy.
Report thisBy Frostedflakes, November 16, 2007 at 3:32 pm #
This is utterly ridiculous!! How can you place, for lack of better phrasing, a man who is personally credited with creating the national divide, based on fear, intolerance, and “dirty politics”, in a position to comment on anything other than how he has managed to escape jail time. This just further illustrates the collusion of the media in the dire straits for which we are headed. No more M.C. Rove.
Report thisBy cAPS lOCK oN, November 16, 2007 at 3:06 pm #
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I called the Newsweek 800# and demanded they cancel my subscription immediately. A war criminal and traitor (Valerie Plame)....this is the best they can do for a’conservative’ voice? Krauthamer not shrill enough.
The Newsweek editors are either craven or sick. And they are definitely a part of the problem.
Report thisBy Verne Arnold, November 16, 2007 at 1:00 pm #
#113930 by waxman on 11/16 at 5:56 am
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JUST CANCELLED MY SUBSCRIPTION TO NEWSWEEK…NUFF SAID
But, haven’t you just eliminated valuable information from the enemy? Information is key, gold, if it comes from the horses mouth!
Report thisBy ocjim, November 16, 2007 at 11:18 am #
Is that where disgraceful, Machiavellian propagandists go, to a major magazine publisher to spread the venom?
Report thisBy waxman, November 16, 2007 at 10:56 am #
JUST CANCELLED MY SUBSCRIPTION TO NEWSWEEK…‘NUFF SAID…
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