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Karl Rove stories: 145 news summaries

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Rove Legacy Tails McCain's New Top Dog

Schmidt takes the reins

Aug 1, 08 3:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Steve Schmidt is the new captain of the McCain campaign ship, which an ex-operative compares to the "Pirates of the Caribbean." Known as a taskmasker and carrying the seemingly oxymoronic reputation of a moderate Karl Rove protégé, Steve Schmidt isn't showing his hand just yet. The New ... More »

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John McCain • Karl Rove • Arnold Schwarzenegger • social conservatives • centrism • negative campaigning • Steve Schmidt

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McCain Strays Off Message, But Which Message?

Candidate ad libs as staffers attempt to strategize

Jul 31, 08 1:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain relishes interacting with voters and sparring with the press, a style that's helped earn him his "maverick" reputation even as it ties his advisers and staff in knots. The campaign as a whole is turning to Karl Rove-style tactics, but the candidate's unpredictable behavior is making it... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Karl Rove • branding • negative campaigning • attack ad • Steve Schmidt

AP Bureau Chief Considered Job With McCain

It's the 2nd accusation
of cozying up to
right wing for Fournier

Jul 30, 08 1:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ron Fournier’s objectivity is being questioned yet again, as Politico reports that the AP’s Washington bureau chief was offered a senior position in the McCain campaign before returning to the wire service in March 2007. Fournier’s political leanings have been a hot topic lately, since a 2004... More »

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John McCain • Karl Rove • Associated Press • McCain 2008 • media bias • Ron Fournier

OPINION

 Ben Stein:
 Time for
 Mac to
 Call Rove

Candidate running 'absolute most pathetic campaign I have ever seen'

Jul 28, 08 7:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservative stalwart Ben Stein thought Bob Dole's quest for the White House set the bar low, but says John McCain is “running the absolute most pathetic campaign I have ever seen in my whole life.” But there’s an answer ("Anyone? Anyone?")—talk to Karl Rove,... More »

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John McCain • Karl Rove • Ben Stein • campaign staff • Election 2008 • campaign tactics

OPINION

The Democratic Party: Is Civil War Brewing?

Maybe there's not enough room for both elites and blue collars

Jul 24, 08 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats are undoubtedly ascendant in the US, Joel Kotkin writes in the American, but the demographic shift that made it so may undermine the party in the near future. That’s because the working-class party of FDR is now chock-full of elites—two constituencies with different values. The richer Dems... More »

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climate change • Barack Obama • Karl Rove • Democrats • Democratic Party • carbon emissions

Virginia Is Not for Gilmore Lovers

Despite GOP strength, broke ex-gov's Senate bid a 'laughingstock'

Jul 24, 08 12:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jim Gilmore may be a former governor, RNC chair, and presidential candidate running for Senate in a historically red state, but the Virginian has become Campaign 2008’s “laughingstock,” Politico reports. Virginia is regularly ranked first among Senate seats likely to flip this November, as Gilmore trails hugely... More »

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Karl Rove • RNC • Senate • Virginia • campaign fundraising • Mark Warner • Jim Gilmore

 Bush Pays Respects to Snow 

President hails late former spokesman's 'record of accomplishment'

Jul 17, 08 12:05 PM CDT
(AP) - President Bush fondly remembered Tony Snow today, telling mourners at his funeral that the conservative commentator-turned-White House press secretary "amassed a rare record of accomplishment." "He knew the job of a reporter was vigorous. He understood the profession and always treated it with respect," Bush said... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • Tony Snow • White House • Andrew Card • funeral • George W. Bush

Wire Service's Objectivity Under Scrutiny

AP staffer's 'breezy' email to Rove
opens can of worms

Jul 15, 08 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Deep in a House report on the circumstances of Pat Tillman's death is a juicy detail that has the chattering classes in a lather: the text of a 2004 email in which an AP reporter tells Karl Rove to “keep up the fight.” Coming on the heels of... More »

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Karl Rove • Pat Tillman • Associated Press • Ron Fournier

 Lawmakers Make Much of Karl Rove's Empty Seat 

Rove defies subpoena, gets snarky 'chair treatment'

Jul 11, 08 6:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Rove ignored a subpoena ordering him to appear before a House committee probing alleged abuses of power in the Justice Department yesterday—and the committee didn't let that get in their way. Lawmakers printed a name card for Rove, pointed a mike at an empty chair, fetched a cool... More »

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Department of Justice • Karl Rove • House Judiciary Committee • Don Siegelman • subpoena • US attorney firings

OPINION

Rove: Obama Copying My Strategy, With Nod to Nixon

Taking pages from Bush-Cheney playbook may help, but flip-flops hurt credibility

Jul 10, 08 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - For all Barack Obama's shots at the Bush Administration, the Democrat's campaign "has cribbed an awful lot from the Bush-Cheney playbooks," their author writes in the Wall Street Journal. Karl Rove sees his own winning strategies at work, from Obama's “army of persuasion,” to Internet efforts,... More »

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Barack Obama • Karl Rove • Richard Nixon • flip flop • George W. Bush

HRC to FNC: Howard Wolfson Joins Fox News

Hillary adviser will counter Rove with regular commentary

Jul 8, 08 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Howard Wolfson, a top strategist for HIllary Clinton's campaign and one of her most visible television surrogates, has found a new employer, and it's not Barack Obama. Wolfson will become a contributor to the Fox News Channel, appearing on multiple programs. His move to Fox echoes a general feeling among... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Karl Rove • Fox News • Talking Heads • Democratic Party • News Corp • Howard Wolfson • punditry

Competing Ambitions Split Camp McCain

Once again, his campaign is riven by squabbling factions

Jul 8, 08 7:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain inspires an uncommon degree of loyalty among the advisers and strategists who've served on his campaigns. But they are less charitable toward each other, writes Adam Nagourney in the New York Times. McCain's 2008 campaign is riven by longstanding feuds and conflicting spheres of influence—a problem compounded... More »

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John McCain • Karl Rove • Rick Davis • Republican Party • Steve Schmidt • Mike Murphy

OPINION

Look Who's Running for a Third Term—
for Karl Rove

 Krugman: Clark affair shows master's hand

Jul 4, 08 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - This week's firefight over what Wesley Clark did or didn't say about John McCain's war record doesn't just remind us that most campaign brouhahas these days are about things that didn't even happen, writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times. It also reveals the long arm of Karl Rove.... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Karl Rove • Wesley Clark • Election 2008

OPINION

Dowd to GOP: The Elitism Crap Won't Work

Rove's attempts to paint Obama as snooty a 'hypocritical comedy'

Jun 25, 08 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Republicans have been unrelenting in their attempts to paint Barack Obama as an elitist—pretty rich stuff, writes Times columnist Maureen Dowd, coming from a party led by a Connecticut-born "Richie Rich" whose daddy has bailed out his snide self time and again. The cosseted conservatives' "hypocritical... More »

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Barack Obama • Karl Rove • Republican Party • Election 2008 • elitism

 Rove Canned in Church: Book 

Bush gave 'brain' the boot during Sunday service

Jun 10, 08 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - After riding to prominence on prophesies of a permanent Republican majority, Karl Rove ultimately learned of his White House excommunication in church, a new book reveals. President Bush gave his longtime adviser his pink slip in the pews, telling Rove last summer, “there’s too much heat on you.... More »

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Karl Rove • church • Ed Rollins • George W. Bush • firing

OPINION

Separation of Powers? Leave Prez's BlackBerry Out of It

Scrutiny on email deprives executive of key communications tool—though not Congress

Jun 9, 08 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The 44th president will almost certainly kick off his term by quitting email cold turkey, Jamie Sneider writes in the Weekly Standard. With executive-branch communication subject to public-disclosure law, President Bush hasn't send a single message, the former White House aide says—a coping mechanism that "fails to strike... More »

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Dick Cheney • Karl Rove • Monica Goodling • email • BlackBerry • executive privilege • Executive Branch • Presidential Records Act

OPINION

Dems' Prints All Over McClellan's 'Bitter Retort'

Leak account has Novak wondering who really wrote book

Jun 2, 08 1:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scott McClellan's treatment of the Valerie Plame leak case has a key player wondering who really guided the former press secretary’s pen. "His robotic performances from the White House podium seemed only to disgorge what he had been told, and What Happened has the similar feel of someone... More »

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Valerie Plame • Joseph Wilson • Karl Rove • Robert Novak • Scott McClellan • George W. Bush • Richard Armitage

McClellan Blasts Bush for Not Firing Rove

Role in Plamegate was enough to can him, ex-Bushie says

Jun 1, 08 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush should have fired aide Karl Rove over the Plamegate affair, Scott McClellan said today. Publicizing his Washington tell-all book, McClellan also blasted Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Dick Cheney's ex-chief of staff, for denying they had leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame's name, the AP reports. "We... More »

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Bush administration • Valerie Plame • Karl Rove • Lewis Scooter Libby • Scott McClellan • George W. Bush • press secretary

OPINION

 Rove: Obama's Stretching Truth 

Illinois senator "instinctively resorts to parsing, evasions, and misdirection"

May 29, 08 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama is a man who "instinctively resorts to parsing, evasions, and misdirection" writes Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal. Take the Rev. Jeremiah Wright episode—in 62 days, Obama offered eight different characterizations of the controversial preacher ranging from "an old uncle" to someone who... More »

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Barack Obama • Karl Rove • Election 2008 • Rev. Jeremiah Wright • flag lapel pin

Rove Brushes Off McClellan Claims on Plame Deception

Says he didn't mislead anyway

May 28, 08 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the political world abuzz over the harsh tone of Scott McClellan’s new memoir about the "culture of deception''  in the Bush White House, Karl Rove is defending himself against one of the former spokesman’s most damning claims—that Rove and Scooter Libby colluded in a Valerie... More »

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CIA • Valerie Plame • Karl Rove • Lewis Scooter Libby • Scott McClellan

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