Karl Rove Census Ad (VIDEO): Former Bush Aide Urges Americans To Fill Out Their Forms

Recent author and former Bush adviser Karl Rove has teamed up with the Census Bureau to film a new public service announcement urging people fill out their 2010 Census form.

Rove told the Washington Post that he agreed to appear in the commercial, "because the Census settles apportionment of Congress and the current distrust of Washington should not discourage people from being counted."

The appearance of Rove, a conservative darling, in an ad to promote Census participation comes on the heels of recent publicized anti-census outrage from lawmakers such as Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Ron Paul (R-Texas). But lately, some Republicans have been changing their tune, responding to concern that boycotting the census could result in fewer GOP-leaning districts in Congress and state legislatures after redistricting.

Last week, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) wrote a post for the conservative blog RedState entitled "Returning the Census is Our Constitutional Duty", in which he argued that "blatant misinformation" about the census from conservatives will "hand Nancy Pelosi more congressional seats."

Take a look at some of the craziest Census conspiracies floating around.

Watch the ad:

Comments

[plaidsportcoat]

02:07 PM on 04/07/2010

eat poopy and cack off

[Sean Larabee]

01:28 PM on 04/07/2010

Unfortunately once the paranoid misinformation is out there the damage is done.

and I am LMAO!!

[b1rd67]

11:23 AM on 04/07/2010

Don't believe him teabaggers... he's part of the conspiracy. If you fill out your census form they will come take your guns away, force your kids into gay interracial marriages, give your house to illegal aliens and then make you pay for their helath care! Be afraid, be very afriad!

[Truth2Power10]

12:13 PM on 04/07/2010

That's right. If you are a conservative, it is your patriotic duty NOT to complete your census form and to ignore the doorbell when the census worker comes a knockin'.

[BitterReality]

11:10 AM on 04/07/2010

The current state of the GOP is beautifully illustrated here. Karl Rove has to make public service announcements to counter the lunacy from the fringe of his own party! LOL!!!

[farmilyman]

10:47 AM on 04/07/2010

Is he trying to undermine rising GOP star Michele Bachman?? He should be ashamed of himself.

[jws2346]

09:16 AM on 04/07/2010

Eekers. It looks like the Pillsbury Dough boi found the kitchen too hot. I wish he'd just go crawl back under his rock.

[uglygnome]

08:54 AM on 04/07/2010

Rove wants me to fill out my census? Forget it.

[libertyluvrz]

07:25 AM on 04/07/2010

Here's hoping all the silly repubs *don't* fill out the form. That way they will be under represented when it comes to Congressional representation.

[nypapajoe]

05:50 AM on 04/07/2010

This guy just needs to go away!

[keepemhonest]

02:13 AM on 04/07/2010

Why now? Why didn't the GOPers say something when Bachmann was spewing her paranoia? Why now?

[Geoffreys]

10:34 AM on 04/07/2010

Because that was 2009 and the paranoia and fear mongering was useful to whip up their base. Now its inconvenient and therefore a flip flop is required.

[Tommygun264]

12:58 AM on 04/07/2010

Good news, Comrades - the Republicans and baggers are falling for the Rovebot and filling out their census forms. Our Communist/Socialist/Marxist/Maoist/Fascist liberal plan is working! Soon we can launch the black helicopters and begin rounding them all up for indoctrination and mandatory same-sex marriage at our secret FEMA camps. Let's just hope they don't catch onto our scheme and refuse to fill out their census forms, thereby foiling our plans. Let's celebrate! Government funded gay French abortions for everybody! Yipee!

[keepemhonest]

02:13 AM on 04/07/2010

cool.

[dxz]

12:38 AM on 04/07/2010

Did you notice he's not wearing his usual tie? Is he being forced to read the statements? Something is amiss here. uuummmm!

[Sam418]

10:16 PM on 04/06/2010

Too little, too late, chubby. I worked the Census in 2000. Enjoyed it and made some extra dough. Everyone seemed to treat it as the civic-minded thing to do. I didn't even consider doing it this time because of all the crap stirred up by Bachman, Beck and the other twits. Thanks.

[liberalbaptistrev]

07:30 PM on 04/06/2010

See

Karl Rove and His Mama: A Psychodynamic Look At Karl Rove's Politics (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

http://liberalbaptistrev.wordpress.com/

[bratcat]

06:15 PM on 04/06/2010

give me one example, in the 200+ years of the Census where there have been serious violations of Americans' personal liberties because of data gather specifiically for the Census. I'll wait...

[Sam418]

10:17 PM on 04/06/2010

Stop thinking logically. The Right can't comprehend that sort of thing.