Karl Rove to join Fox News Channel…
ICN hears that Karl Rove will join Fox News Channel as a contributor and will likely be used throughout Super Tuesday coverage…
January 31, 2008
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The libs will run away with this.
Comment by Aaron — January 31, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
Don’t go dropping bombs like that on us, somebody go get my smelling salts.
I can’t think of anything less newsworthy.
Comment by RC — January 31, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
Uh-oh look for rumors of Steve Capus having a black baby.
Comment by Steve — January 31, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
Mr. Rove may be in good company with Fox News’ contributor to their dial testing - John Cleese!
Comment by TV Colleague — January 31, 2008 @ 4:49 pm
Yeah, but Fox isn’t a right wing news organization. He’s being hired as an objective observer who will be fair and balanced.
Comment by Cory!! Strode — January 31, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
^
What about Carville and Begala on CNN?
Comment by Lurker — January 31, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
Carville and Begala have been banned from CNN’s election coverage until a Democratic nominee has been decided due to their close connections with the Clintons.
Comment by blogthat — January 31, 2008 @ 4:57 pm
I was really saying the hiring of the two on CNN but I also don’t see a problem with him being a contributor on Super Tuesday.
He isn’t close to any of the candidates like Caville and Begala are to the Clintons.
Comment by Lurker — January 31, 2008 @ 5:03 pm
Do you really think there WASN’T a bidding war between all the networks to get him? FNC probably just shelled out the most scratch… it’s a big name, from a big person, and he’ll pull in an audience.
Comment by ImNotBlue — January 31, 2008 @ 5:12 pm
Rove’s blunt honest style will draw a crowd. Someone at FOX is smart.
Comment by Scrapiron — January 31, 2008 @ 5:15 pm
Karl you’ve done a good job the last 8 years. We need you to try and keep hilly and and the impeached president, disbarred lawyer(for lying)honest. Its good to have you aboard. Thanks
Comment by bobo — January 31, 2008 @ 5:17 pm
Carville was just one with Wolfe talking about tonights debate
Comment by Wenchie — January 31, 2008 @ 5:34 pm
This doesnt thrill me….Too much baggage…way too much baggage
Comment by Wenchie — January 31, 2008 @ 5:35 pm
I think Karl Rove is a good “get” for FNC.. but do agree with the “baggage” comment too.
Comment by Terance — January 31, 2008 @ 5:54 pm
As long as he doesn’t dance..
Comment by Mazz — January 31, 2008 @ 6:04 pm
Keep your friends close … your enemies closer >>
Welcome aboard Karl! I look forward to your analysis.
Comment by Larry Lemke — January 31, 2008 @ 6:16 pm
Can you imagine the lib reaction when Rush has a show on Fox? Can you say 10 million viewers a night?
Comment by thegreatwhitesouth — January 31, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
Spud - do you know if this is a full-time gig or it’s just for “Super Tuesday?” Just curious.
Comment by FishOil — January 31, 2008 @ 6:59 pm
Honestly, any network would probably love him, but the horrible issue of baggage just overlays this entire thing. No matter who you ask, this honestly doesn’t help with the whole “pro-Buah” Fox News view of many, including myself. Still, it’ll be interesting to see.
Comment by Chris — January 31, 2008 @ 7:13 pm
Terance & Wenchie: Baggage?
Oh yes, David Schuster said he would be indicted!
Comment by Ira — January 31, 2008 @ 7:41 pm
I don’t think ‘any network’ wants Rove. Fox News is the network of the Bush White House and they just trade staff back and forth (e.g. Tony Snow).
@thegreatwhitesouth: I wish Fox News would pick up Rush as a full-time host. It would be the nail in the coffin of their ‘fair and balanced’ pretext. Unfortunately Rush has the face/body for radio. Plus working in TV might put a crimp in his ability to score his ‘medicine’.
Comment by JDH — January 31, 2008 @ 7:55 pm
Ira, come on. Just go to google and type in “karl rove scandal” and refresh yourself! Oh and just for fun then try, “karl rove jack abramoff.”
Comment by Terance — January 31, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
Ira… A person doesnt need to be indicted to have baggage ….You do know that, right?
Comment by Wenchie — January 31, 2008 @ 7:58 pm
“Can you imagine the lib reaction when Rush has a show on Fox? Can you say 10 million viewers a night?”
His syndicated TV show, which did so poorly that most TV stations carrying it banished it to after midnight so it wouldn’t drag down their ratings. And that was when he had between 20 - 25 million listeners.
Now, he’s down to 13.5 million (and eroding), and the show will be available to fewer viewers, and he’ll get 4 to 5 times the viewers he had before?
Really?
As for “other networks were probably bidding for him”, I doubt he spoke to any other network, so they didn’t know he was on the table.
Comment by Cory!! Strode — January 31, 2008 @ 8:20 pm
Hey Spud, according to Keith Olbermann you stoled the information from Drudge.
Comment by RigoG — January 31, 2008 @ 8:46 pm
spud got a plug tonight on countdown lol
Comment by don — January 31, 2008 @ 8:46 pm
Those people here who’re using /even this/ to bash FOX… Did they bash ABC when it hired George Stephonopolis? Or when CNN hired James Carville? Or when CNBC hired Mary Matalin? What is the very definition of hypocracy, if not this? What is the meaning of dishonesty, if not this? What means disingenuous, but this?
Comment by Haile Welde — January 31, 2008 @ 9:59 pm
I think fox news being the voice of the administrastion
you can debate that if you like it or not and i think fox news channel has now got despret so they can get more controversal ratings out of anything news corp can get ahold of
i just think the head boss of news corp is hanging by a thread hoping the republicans get in next year so they can continue their high success
that is not a “liberal” point of view its just the way i see it watching fox news think about it will fox news really defend a democratic president if one gets in next year hmm
Comment by don — January 31, 2008 @ 10:36 pm
Don…truth is Fox got its feet under then when Clinton was Pres..
Whether there is a Repub or Dem in the WH there will be enough news and fodder to keep people tuning in…
Comment by Wenchie — January 31, 2008 @ 10:40 pm
As for “other networks were probably bidding for him”, I doubt he spoke to any other network, so they didn’t know he was on the table.
Comment by Cory!! Strode — January 31, 2008 @ 8:20 pm
Why, Cory!!. Why do you doubt that? Any network would be happy to have him, being that he is such a controversial figure, with so much baggage. Don’t forget, someone who his hated by a lot of people, can get just as many eyeballs (if not more) watching, as someone who is well liked.
The goal of all television is to make money… having Rove on, will draw in the ratings, increase ad revenue, and thusly… make money. And until I see some evidence that he would “only talk to FOX,” I can’t give much credence to that theory.
Comment by ImNotBlue — January 31, 2008 @ 11:15 pm
I missed it. What exactly did Olbermann say?
Update: Ok, I saw it. RigoG has his facts mixed up. Olbermann didn’t say I stole it from Drudge. He said Drudge stole it from me.
Comment by Spud — January 31, 2008 @ 11:37 pm
“Why, Cory!!. Why do you doubt that?”
Because of the long friendship and relationship between Rove and Roger Ailes. Notice I didn’t say I know, I said “I doubt”. A conjecture based on past relationships both business and political, although I was shocked when his book didn’t go with HarperCollins.
Kind of like how Ollie North was given a show on Fox, and I seriously doubt any other network was calling him up, asking him to put together a series for them.
As for Former Clinton people…I think giving George S the old David Brinkley show was a stupid move and made it so I didn’t watch the show any more. And Carville and Begala on Crossfire = good idea, I don’t care for them doing other shows…in fact, if you look through the archives here, I was HAPPY when they were pulled and relabled on CNN.
Comment by Cory!! Strode — January 31, 2008 @ 11:40 pm
I wonder if Karl Rove and Rick Santorum will share a dressing room. They’ll both feel right at home, I’m sure.
Comment by Jeri — January 31, 2008 @ 11:49 pm
CNN hired Glenn Beck. MSNBC has a bunch of conservatives. The major networks are moderate to right. All the networks except Fox News have a corporate bias. Fox News is the only one that tied a rope to the Bush administration, and now that rope has turned into a noose. Fox News viewership has been declining just like Bush’s poll numbers.
As for Rove, he has proven to have the same level of foresight as the other Fox pundits. Remember his predictions about 2006. He’s having the same prescience about 2008. Yeah, good luck with that.
Comment by JDH — January 31, 2008 @ 11:55 pm
I got the words mixed up. I stand corrected.
Comment by RigoG — February 1, 2008 @ 12:03 am
Jeez, now that’s a good way to shake that “republican propaganda” collar…go and hire the top republican spin doctor. The only way that could even remotely be fair and balanced is if they hired Hugo Chavez to analyze exit polls.
Comment by sivart — February 1, 2008 @ 1:22 am
Gee, I didn’t even know that Rove had left Faux news and now he’s coming back.
Comment by The Old Man — February 1, 2008 @ 1:55 am
I agree, it doesn’t thrill me. But Fox does have every right to invite anybody they want to on their air to analyze the news. I just hope for the sake of fairness that they also invite a democratic Fox News contributor with the same pithy, in your face style of Rove to counter him. Otherwise its unfair.
Comment by Paco — February 1, 2008 @ 7:17 am
After so many years as the official mouthpiece of the barking loony riech, it’ll be interesting to see if FUX Noise can transition to being the voice of (a small, beaten) opposition. Or is Murdoch’s (and mAnn Coulter’s) support for Hillary signaling a shift in their position? One day, FUXheads are supposed to wake up and just forget 15 years of slander on the Clintons as if it never happened? “EurAsia has always been at war with Oceana”.
Rove’s contract should be month to month, he won’t be available once the War Crimes Trials start, defendant #6.
Comment by CV — February 1, 2008 @ 9:15 am
Rove is a strategist, not a reporter.
This fits perfectly in with their guise of actually being a news channel and not one big editorial.
Comment by Matt — February 1, 2008 @ 9:34 am
Cool..considering he the shepherd that ran the GOP over the cliff…what a wise decision by FOX.
Comment by Richard — February 1, 2008 @ 10:25 am
Karl Rove helped Philip Zelikow put together the 911 Cover Up Commission Report. That is just the most recent revelation. Add that to his already extremely long wrap sheet. If there were justice in America, he would be in prison.
Comment by ROBinDALLAS — February 1, 2008 @ 10:30 am
Finally the other shoe drops and the circle is squared. Anyone for a rousing chorus of “The Circle of Life” (sung by the Jackals, of course)?
Comment by kargoyle — February 1, 2008 @ 10:42 am
I remember when a couple of Repulicans had sex scandals and fair and balanced listed them as Democrats. They were called up on it, and never did a retraction. Fair and Balanced Liars and running dogs.
Comment by blueken — February 1, 2008 @ 10:58 am
Karl rove? BWHA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Yeah like i need to hear anything from that partisan shill.
All he’s going to say is hillary has high negatives for ten hours and go home. Who needs his POV?
Comment by Bootleghaircut — February 1, 2008 @ 11:04 am
I hope Rove’s sneaking, conniving bulbous head explodes while he’s live on the air, causing Brit Hume to vomit into Sean Hannity’s lap. There would finally be a reason to watch Faux Noise Channel.
Comment by scot — February 1, 2008 @ 11:08 am
Just another lowlife going to be on Fox,anyone who watches Fox has to be sick with all of the nuts on Fox and they call being rightwing fair and balanced.I wouldn’t lower myself to watch such a s—-y channel
Comment by Clyde — February 1, 2008 @ 11:17 am
Olby would never claim someone “stole” from Drudge. He’s still pissed about Drudge exposing the spiked Newsweek story, which kind of proved Mary Ham’s claim that Clinton used to get a pass for his lies.
As for Begala and Carville, their job when they admitted working for the Clintons was to go around telling everyone Monica was a delusional stalker. Why should anyone lend them any credibility now?
Comment by Jim — February 1, 2008 @ 11:34 am
What’s the big deal, they used to mouth his dishonest press releases as truth before, now they will just let him do it in person.
Either way the reich wing lie machine rolls on.
Comment by clif — February 1, 2008 @ 12:33 pm
Karl Rove is a great man. GW is a great president. Libs will never understand that. This world is far better place after these last seven years. And now , its time for my enema.
Comment by KittyKatMan — February 1, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
Good, disreputable place for him. I suspect he has fed them a lot of their content anyhow.
Comment by Sara B. — February 1, 2008 @ 1:23 pm
More re-writing of history and Bushy boy’s legacy in which this Country Disassembler is very well tied to. Rove’s only goal in the media right now is to spin, spin, spin, the past 7 years. Only no-one’s listening this time Chicken-Little.
Comment by Roving Reporter — February 1, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
Carville, Begala, Rove, Coulter, O’Reilly, Limbaugh; all the same ilk.
You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
Comment by dahreese — February 1, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
Will there be an actual exchange of vows between Rove and Fox, or will they continue to live in sin?
Comment by John — February 1, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
Karl Rove and Fox News are a perfect pair with one thing in common. They both hate America. I am sure the rest of the 25% of our population that are America Haters as well are overjoyed. You all defintitely deserve each other.
Comment by John — February 1, 2008 @ 2:57 pm
Rove and Carville have two things in common: They worked to see Gore lose in 2000, and they worked to see Kerry lose in 2004. Carville does whatever his fellow freak-and-wife Mary Matalin tells him; Carville differs from Rove in that Carville took money from the Democratic Party while he was working for the defeat of Gore and Kerry.
Comment by Mr. Justice — February 1, 2008 @ 5:26 pm
I hope this is true. I can’t wait to hear Rove’s predictions about how many GOP Congressmen will be going down in flames in November. Or maybe he’ll share his secret numbers that show the GOP regaing the House and Senate in a glorious sweep for the Bush Monarchy.
Rove hasn’t been outside the WH bubble for every long and probably doesn’t realize how toxic his presence would be.
Comment by Pompano Pete — February 1, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
I love when the blue blogs link to ICN… so entertaining!
Facts don’t matter. Actual TV knowledge, or logic, doesn’t matter. All that matters is ideology… and if it’s not the same as those blue blogs, it’s wrong, evil, and you should probably go ahead and die.
I often wonder, are the “exchange-bloggers” really multiple people… or just one person, thinking they’re making a difference. If you read the comments, they’re all essentially the same, all hit the same points, and all from people we’ll never hear from again. I’m pretty sure, given an hour, I could bang out the same 50 or so “RAGGLE-FRAGGLE REPUBLICANS BAD” frothing that these guys ‘appear’ to do.
Heehee… keep it up, guys. Your crazy amuses me.
Comment by ImNotBlue — February 1, 2008 @ 7:54 pm
I love when the Chickenhawk blogs link to ICN… so entertaining!
Facts don’t matter. Actual TV knowledge, or logic, doesn’t matter. All that matters is ideology, and that from Faux News (of “weapons of mass destruction” fame) … and if it’s not the same as those Chickenhawk blogs, it’s wrong, evil, and you should probably go ahead and die. And go to Hades, of course, since these cowards are self-identified born-again Bible-believin’ Christians.
I often wonder, are the “exchange-bloggers” really multiple people… or just one person, thinking they’re making a difference. If you read the comments, they’re all essentially the same, all hit the same points, and all from people we’ll never hear from again. I’m pretty sure, given an hour, I could bang out the same 50 or so “RAGGLE-FRAGGLE GODLESS LIBRULS BAD” frothing that these guys ‘appear’ to do. Anything to avoid confronting “thinking”.
Heehee… keep it up, Chickenhawks. Your crazy amuses me. Also your moral cretinism and cowardice.
Comment by Mr. Justice — February 1, 2008 @ 9:02 pm
Wow. Big surprise. Fox News adds another partisan that supports their views, but not the facts.
If they actually added a true journalist not interested in political agendas? Now THAT would be news….and progress!
Comment by Molly — February 1, 2008 @ 9:57 pm
Ooooh, clever, Mr. Justice.
Too bad I’m a regular at this blog… I haven’t been linked to this thread from anywhere. Oh also, I’m Jewish… not really a fan of bible thumping.
But anyway, and you may not have noticed this (because you’ve been told to blog here, and haven’t actually found this place on your own, just following the directions of your blog-masters) this isn’t a political blog. It’s a blog about cable news. So your political “RAH-RAH-RAH” isn’t really welcomed.
Now it’s obvious that your hatred of all people who disagree with you is pretty strong, but next time, try to do a little thinking on your own. Oh, and try knowing a little something about what you’re posting before you post. Those assumptions can really make you sound like an ass.
Comment by ImNotBlue — February 1, 2008 @ 9:59 pm
No Duh! Saw this coming a mile away…
Comment by Dave — February 1, 2008 @ 11:45 pm
Jail this man, Karl Rove.
Comment by Bob Dobbs — February 2, 2008 @ 1:23 am
Fox can have all the low-life pigs they want on their “News” channel, doesn’t mean a damn thing to me. Rove was repulsive when he hooked up with the idiot bush in Texas, he was repulsive in our White House, and he is repulsive now. The man is uneducated and he is not at all the “brain” he was hyped as during the bush regime (it was not “bush’s brain” that won elections - it was cheating and stealing votes and redistricting that dit it) And, the bush presidency will be seen as a disgrace - for the rest of eternity. Do you think any legitimate Univ or other venue would want the bush library? You must be kidding. Let’s get on without paying attention to cheating,lying pigs like Rove. PEACE
Comment by thomas — February 2, 2008 @ 11:18 am
The Minster of Propaganda is rightly enthroned in the Ministry of Propaganda now.
Color me shocked.
-GSD
Comment by GSD — February 4, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
The Great White South! Great name. Is that named after the Southern Flag? You know, the last flag that flew over the Independent South—-the white flag of surrender to the North!
History’s losers on parade.
-GSD
Comment by GSD — February 4, 2008 @ 12:24 pm
are you kidding me? Fox was probably the only one to want him. and as far as Fox being a “news” channel — you should look at our definitions of “journalism” and actually do some analysis yourselves before you make any more pigheaded comments on subjects you know nothing about.
Comment by john — February 4, 2008 @ 7:08 pm
So Carl “The Architect” Rove had joined Fox Noise as a “Paid Contributor”… right.
No doubt he and the GOP will be working long into the night at the “Fair and Balanced” network, cranking it up to FULL SMEAR this important election season.
Comment by David — February 28, 2008 @ 4:05 pm