Karl Rove at Newsweek?
Newsweek magazine hiring Karl Rove to be a political commentator illustrates everything that is wrong with the corporate media system. Here is a guy whose scorched earth politics have left the nation reeling with ill effects and crippling divisions and he is rewarded with a prominent mouthpiece for his vitriol by one of the nation's most widely circulated newsweeklies? Newsweek might as well give a column on the subject of humanitarian living to Charles Manson.
Karl Rove has done more damage to our nation than all but a handful of individuals over the last 50 years. Rove's Big Lies and underhanded tactics come from the same playbook as those of Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon's hatchet man, Donald Segretti. Rove either should be in a prison cell next to his good buddy Jack Abramoff, or at least face the grilling of a congressional committee instead of ducking subpoenas like a mafia don. And now millions of readers will hear his take on the world in the pages of Newsweek? Come on, Evan Thomas, can't you do anything to stop this ill-considered hire? Rove didn't even wait the customary six months or a year after leaving public office, like Newt Gingrich or Tom DeLay, to begin his new career as yet another right-wing pundit with a national mouthpiece.
Karl Rove has denigrated and damaged (possibly permanently) democracy in America.
He engineered election victories based on irrational fears and fascistic tactics.
To win elections at all costs he divided the citizenry and fomented the worst tendencies in American culture: racism, jingoism, neo-McCarthism, and a weird American hybrid of European fascism.
Rove worked closely with Abramoff and DeLay on dozens of corrupt kickback schemes involving Congressional payouts in exchange for K-street campaign cash.
He did everything he could to destroy the United States Congress as a co-equal branch of government with the executive.
Rove was the hidden manipulator behind the politicization of all of the federal bureaus and agencies including the Justice Department.
He was Bush's enforcer behind the expansion of executive power grabbing for the White House powers that General Pervez Musharraf would envy.
Rove dragged the country through the mud, demoralized its people, and helped make the United States more hated in the rest of the world than at any other time in its history.
He manipulated the Washington press corps (not a difficult task) with leaks and floating attacks on political enemies, such as Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame.
He "danced" on stage as "M.C. Rove" with his bro, the "journalist" David Gregory, flailing his arms like a twisted rag doll, (which might be Rove's greatest crime of all -- you can see the wretched spectacle on YouTube).
Rove has shown inherent contempt for the United States House of Representatives, (the governing institution most beholden to its citizens), which tells you a lot about his views of democracy to which Newsweek readers will be subjected.
Rove was caught red-handed telling the American people Big Lie after Big Lie about some of the most important problems facing us, including global warming and the occupation of Iraq.
He ushered in new forms of bigotry directed at gays and lesbians, and through codes, directed at African Americans.
He divided blacks and whites, rich and poor, gays and straights, the religious and the secular, the young and the old, the native born and the immigrants, all in pursuit of power and profit for a narrow ruling corporate elite.
And for all of these horrific political misdeeds and authoritarian actions Newsweek magazine offers up a mouthpiece and platform for Karl Rove to continue spewing his venom and crippling the nation's ability to come together to solve our problems? Why?
Why has Newsweek decided to give this man a platform rewarding his retrograde and failed views? Could it be because both Karl Rove and Newsweek magazine serve the same corporate masters and wealthy ruling elites?
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These b*stards turned us into a banana republic in less than six years! This SO needed to be said. Thank you.
The obvious reason that Newsweek has hired Karl and Kos is to increase their readership. Neither of them is an accomplished writer or capable of in-depth analysis. I doubt that either has ever had a course in journalism ethics. Rove is one of the most cunning, scheming political operative in history, and the youthful, inexperienced Kos' expertise is in using language he learned in the Army to attack those who disagree with him. Newsweek's readership will go up, and its owners will make more money, as will Karl and Kos. But the country will continue to descend to ever lower levels of incivility. Soon only those whose vocabulary is limited to the ten or twenty vulgar terms most frequently seen in comments to Huffington Post and the Daily Kos will be heard across the land.
I'm going to let my Newsweek subscription run out, then get a REAL news magazine, the Economist.
"Karl Rove has denigrated and damaged (possibly permanently) democracy in America.
He engineered election victories based on irrational fears and fascistic tactics."
Well, he gets my vote for next President. He has done all this and more without anyone stopping him, think what he could do as President. He could make Georgie boy look like a useless ass, but then some allready see him like that.
Really, just one less worthless rag of a magazine to read. Subscription cancelled.
Excellent post. No Time (Kristol) and no Newsweek (Rove)! If we could get a hold on the computers, Rove would be in prison: it's all still there on the hard drive...
I’m the most left person I know and I don’t care if writes for Newsweek. Kos himself sanctioned the idea:
"Newsweek actually got this right, for once. They balanced out a movement progressive with a movement conservative. In years past, Rove’s “balance” would’ve been Bob Shrum. Now, they’re apparently starting to realize the difference between a movement partisan and an establishment hack."
I’d rather Rove spew his wisdom in the public sphere for all to see and judge on its merits. It’s better than filling the ear of the president with poison on a daily basis.
I'd certainly rather read Rove than read Malkin or Coulter or Hannity.
I think what we will all discover is that Rove is simply not a very good writer.
Seriously, this is weird. And this post pretty much sums it up: why? Or, as the Weekend Update SNL people might say, "Really?" It's just absurd, and I thought I liked Newsweek, you know, overall anyway. It's like a parallel reality version of Newsweek, a parallel reality some of us have wanted to avoid. Weird.
Newsweek is teaching FAUX the meaning of "FAIR AND BALAMCED."
Let's cancel all subs to Newsweek the moment Rove's words disgrace its pages --
They just don't know when to quit.
What can we do when the rulers decide to be evil. I respect those with wealth who work for the betterment of mankind but, how can anyone stand the likes of Carl Rove and his ilk who, work tirelessly for those born to great wealth at the absolute painful and many times fatal demise of those who struggle from their birth to survive. Rove is exactly the kind of man the Nazis would have promoted to relocation leader of state undiserables. It is cruel to say what I have said above but, many thousands if not millions have died and will die because of Rove and his friends. Certainly, tens of millions of Americans will die prematurely because of Rove and his followers desire to give government sponsered health care to themselves and their friends and let, the rest of us taxpayers who pay for Roves health care, die. What we have here is a new holocaust. A holocaust against the poor and middle class.
There's nothing left to say -- Joe, you have addressed it all.
MSM is a joke, a farce, a corrupt screen for nasty and manipulative ideology.
One wonders what the NEWSWEEK writers and reporters will do when faced with Rove's presence in their midst?
THANK YOU! I wish the crooks and liars in this country would stop being rewarded (and punished instead). The corporate world is teaching our children by example to become the next generation of crooks and liars.
I also gave up on TIME mag. and will never touch a Newsweek again. I refuse to support any company that would pay money to Kristol, Coulter, Rove, etal.
Everybody should cancel their subscriptions to Newsweek if Rove's venom is inside its pages. He should be in prison for crimes against humanityt and contempt of Congress.
What does this tell us about the owners/publishers of Newsweek.
Watch for the coming layoffs, I predict a vast majority of American's aren't going to subscribe to ANY publication with Karl Rove on the masthead.
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