Fox News Finally Identifies Karl Rove As McCain Adviser

ThinkProgress noted today that Fox News has finally identified Karl Rove as an informal adviser to the McCain Campaign, almost four months after hiring him as an on-air political analyst.

Rove first appeared on Fox as an "FNC political contributor" on Super Tuesday (February 5), and it took the network 118 days to acknowledge his affiliation with McCain, according to ThinkProgress' "Rove Watch Clock."

The mention slipped out during an interview with Rove on Hannity & Colmes, when Colmes asked him a question about Obama (see video below):

"Look, Karl, I know you're supporting McCain. But how do you know -- and I know you've helped informally advise McCain -- but how do you know that he's a weak general election candidate?"

Last month, Amanda Terkel and Matt Corley remarked in Salon that Rove was regularly introduced on Fox as a "former senior advisor to President Bush," "the architect," a "political wizard" and a "famed political consultant" — but his connection to McCain was never disclosed.

Comments

[Cybesq]

Oops, that was meant as a reply to Unbias View below.

[Cybesq]

Yeah, sort of like the pettiness of finding out that Clinton didn't give flowers to someone on secretary day which led to a 53 Million dollar investigation to prove semen stains fabric.

Listen to right wing radio for five minutes. It's all inane soundbites and endless pettiness but those people elected GW Bush TWICE.

[UnbiasView]

Honestly, this is scary that there are jobs for people over at think progress that sit on every word from their enemy network to try and play gotcha.

Is there anyone that actually does this job on HuffPost? If so, have you had suicidal thoughts over the pettyness of your job and life?

[rivrgrrl]

Are you kidding?!

People are (rightly so) making a lot of money in the cottage industry of exposing the lies, distortions, spin and propaganda of the riech wing neeoCONS.

Get used to it. Plenty more ahead as the Dems open up the investigations.