Rachel Maddow: Karl Rove Ad Against Obama Is 'Bullpucky' (VIDEO)

Rachel Maddow took Karl Rove to task on her Tuesday show for what she called a deeply misleading ad that Rove's PAC is running against President Obama.

Maddow said that, now that Rove and his group, American Crossroads, are attempting to spend $240 million to defeat Obama, it might as well be "clear and settled" that he is Obama's most formidable opponent. She pointed to an ad that is currently airing as an example of what Rove's campaign will look like.

The ad shows Obama in 2009, saying that "the last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a recession." This is followed by several reporters in 2011 saying that the president is doing just that.

Maddow focused on one of these reporters, CNN's Brianna Keilar, who is quoted as saying, "the president proposes tax increases." She went back to the original CNN footage, which showed Keilar saying that Obama was proposing tax increases on the wealthy and on corporations and financiers. To Maddow, this contrasted mightily with the message of the Rove ad, which was aimed at ordinary people. She said the ad had been "cut and pasted like it's refrigerator poetry."

Maddow called the ad "bullpucky" (her favorite G-rated term for something she thinks is stretching the truth). She went further, calling it "genius" and "the best bullpucky money can buy" and "gold plated campaign bullpucky." She concluded by saying that, if she were Keilar, "I might sue them over using me like that."

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Comments

[Lightyear]

10:35 PM on 10/10/2011

Karl Rove is a very corrupt, evil strategist who continually breaks the rules. He deserves no honor or accolades only to be shunned and ignored.

[kimota]

11:30 PM on 10/06/2011

While I agree with the substance of Maddow's commentary, it's not as if we didn't know that Obama's justifications for caving in on extending the Bush tax cuts weren't going to be spliced into hundreds of attack ads during the 2012 cycle. But who am I to question the genius of his advisors and speech writers?

[mw21]

07:03 PM on 10/06/2011

Wikipedia: "On August 10, 1973, in the midst of the Watergate scandal, the Post broke the story in article titled "GOP Party Probes Official as Teacher of Tricks"... "Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean, who was implicated in the Watergate break-in and became the star witness for the prosecution, has been quoted as saying "based on my review of the files, it appears the Watergate prosecutors were interested in Rove's activities in 1972, but because they had bigger fish to fry they did not aggressively investigate him."

Training ground fro Republican operatives.

[mw21]

06:58 PM on 10/06/2011

Wikipedia: "In the fall of 1970, Rove used a false identity to enter the campaign office of Democrat Alan J. Dixon, who was running for Treasurer of Illinois. He stole 1000 sheets of paper with campaign letterhead, printed fake campaign rally fliers promising "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing", and distributed them at rock concerts and homeless shelters, with the effect of disrupting Dixon's rally."

The training ground for Republican operatives.

[creoleguy32]

11:19 AM on 10/06/2011

Who cares Maddow? Anything to not talk about real issues like the fact that Obama took more money from Wall St and the nuclear industry than any other President in history. Yeah, being that Maddow is paid directly from the Fed Reserve along with MSNBC being run by JP Morgan and GE, which both have people that sits up in Obama's cabinet, I guess you cant bite the hand that feeds you

[mw21]

06:49 PM on 10/06/2011

Once again the trolls' only answers seem to be, "I know I am but what are you?"

Very 3rd grade.

[serialcoma]

09:15 AM on 10/06/2011

Karl Rove - a bottom feeder preying on the willfully ignorant.

[thundermummy]

12:44 AM on 10/06/2011

Shredded pork.

[BillyBobBones]

10:44 PM on 10/05/2011

So unions raising $75-100million and donating the monies to Obamma is ok. She is a fraud and a hypocrite. Do I need to mention donations from Solyndra, Goldman Sachs and list goes on and on that donated to Obamma. Eliminate all corporate and union campaign contribtions and limit it to limited contributions from individuals capped at $50,000.

[mflorian]

12:29 AM on 10/06/2011

Unions represent the interests of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Corporations represent only the CEOs and shareholders. It's the same amount of money for a vastly different amount of voices.

[JAT3]

03:30 AM on 10/06/2011

The question is why do you support the 2% of wealth owners, corps, wallst, banks that don't support you?

When they:
-overcharge you with fees
-willing to foreclose you and when its clearly their fault its a very long process to rectify
-make it extreme hard to get a loan even with good credit, no late payments
-won't invest in America vs overseas
-won't hire, create jobs vs low wage workers overseas
-want less regulations and oversight so they can charge whatever, whenever
-don't wont a EPA to protect everyone's air, water, food and environment
-record profits by upper mgmt, CEO, shareholders...but the worker sees lil growth wages/bonuses
-rich tax cuts don't create jobs or pay towards the deficit, but the avg person has to on their significantly smaller checks.

YOUR WACK!

[serialcoma]

09:16 AM on 10/06/2011

Fanned.

[Q45]

11:04 AM on 10/06/2011

F&F excellent post.

[SouthJewishWman]

08:40 PM on 10/05/2011

When I see the right wing supporters, Rove, Grover Norquist, Mark Levine, Breitbart, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Murdoch, Roger Ailes, etc. I just want to throw up. Just look at this list of hate mongers. Not one of them offers any solutions to any real issues. They just are the party of anti and no. Support democracy and freedom - vote Democratic.

[skjn62]

12:21 AM on 10/06/2011

You forgot the Koch Bros.

[serialcoma]

09:16 AM on 10/06/2011

fanned.

[Rockwell]

07:21 PM on 10/05/2011

You can't shred Crisco. She must have smeared him.

[kibibi]

07:11 PM on 10/05/2011

why isn't this man in JAIL????????????

[sticky29]

07:33 PM on 10/05/2011

You need to break laws for that.

[kibibi]

08:17 PM on 10/05/2011

REALLY, outing a CIA agent doesn't apply? but I guess you're ok with that cause you watch Fake News and have a hard time with FACTS

[serialcoma]

09:17 AM on 10/06/2011

Your knowledge of the law and Rove's criminal activities is either sorely lacking or you just don't care....

[SpookyAnnya]

06:49 PM on 10/05/2011

The GOP is full of Bullpucky

[JTyroler]

06:02 PM on 10/05/2011

Karl Rove was very close to being a felon for his involvement with the Valerie Plame affair. Now, because of Citizens United, he's collecting hundreds of millions of dollars from 3 or 4 billionaires to try to sway the 2012 presidential election. Is Citizens United going to be involved with the GOP primaries? Will they (should be he, since it's basically give money to Karl to attack people) go after Rick Perry or Mitt Romney because they don't like each other?

[SouthJewishWman]

08:32 PM on 10/05/2011

Smart badge for you.

[JTyroler]

09:10 PM on 10/05/2011

Thank you!

[Smithn]

06:01 PM on 10/05/2011

I wish we could clone the amazing research engine known as Rachel Maddow!

[carolina919]

07:52 PM on 10/05/2011

Well, maybe we can't clone....but we can certainly emulate....and all of us could certainly use her as an inspiration to dig a little deeper, think a little harder and make sure we get the facts.....But, I know where you're coming from....we need a lot more like Rachel Maddow in every sphere.....

[Smithn]

10:15 PM on 10/05/2011

Fanned & badged! Thanks for the insightful elaboration.

[LMPE]

05:55 PM on 10/05/2011

Karl Rove IS bullpucky!