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Karl Rove: Bamboozling the Public Again
http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.html (SNIP)
If, on the other hand, Obama wins the nomination (or even the VP spot), Rove's prospects brighten considerably. Largely unvetted by the media, the self-described agent of change carries considerable baggage from his stint as a state legislator, particularly his long-running relationship with Chicago slumlord Tony Rezko, who's about to go on trial for multiple felony counts of fraud. So far, the mainstream press has paid lip service to the connection and instead portrayed Obama as a fresh new face in American politics. The author of the Time magazine article, Jay Newton-Small, offered the following explanation to account for the bizarre love affair G.O.P. voters say they're having with an African American senator on the other side of the aisle. "It seems a lot of Republicans took to heart Obama's statement in his rousing speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that 'there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America.'"
Is he kidding? The conservative publication National Journal claims Obama's voting record is the most liberal in Washington, eve moreso than Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Although not everyone agrees with the assessment, it's nevertheless hard to picture the voting pattern that Mr. Small implies here: Nixon - Reagan - Bush - Dole - Bush - Obama. Remarkably, journalists across the media spectrum have provided this very spin on reality, just as they continue to disparage Clinton as a has-been in her own party. Last year, at the same time she commanded a huge lead in the national polls, political analysts and professional strategists hired by CNN and other broadcast networks began hammering across the notion that "the voters don't like her". The adjectives "unlikable", "divisive" and "polarizing" are repeated over and over in the same manner as terms like "biological warfare" and "weapons of mass destruction" were branded on the American conscience in the lead-up to the Iraq War. In both cases, the terminology traces back to right-wing ideologues, especially those who keep the studio seats warm at Fox News. "There is no candidate on record, a front-runner for a party's nomination, who has entered the primary season with negatives as high as she has," Rove told Reuters last August. The G.O.P.'s senior election strategist recently joined Fox an a part-time news analyst.
{b}Obama himself recites Rove's "high negatives" comment in press interviews whenever discussing Clinton. His often bitter criticism of the former First Lady and other "Washington insiders", who he says want to "boil and stew all the hope out of him", represents a staple of his core political message. His campaign slogan of "I'm a uniter, not a divider" is also reminiscent of the Bush 2000 campaign, which Rove managed. According to Marisa Guthrie of BC Beat, Obama campaign speechwriter Ben Rhodes is the brother of David Rhodes, a Fox News VP. The latter Rhodes has been with the network since its inception in 1996. You may recall that on election night in November 2000, it was Fox that called Florida for Bush, even though the other networks declared Gore the winner, citing the exit polls. How Fox knew the polls were wrong in advance of the vote tabulation has never been explained.
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BC BEAT = Broadcastingcable.com
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/blog/1380000138/post/370021637.htmlFeb. 11, 2008
Since then, a thaw seems to have set in. Obama has appeared on Fox News several times since the madrassa flap. And while he declined an invitation to debate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) on Feb. 11, his demur probably had more to do with strategy than partisanship.
As it turns out Fox News and the Obama campaign are bound by blood.
David Rhodes, Fox News' vice president of news, is the older brother of Ben Rhodes, one of the speechwriters responsible for Obama's orotund oratory.
David, 34, who has been with Fox News since its 1996 inception, is responsible for the network's news coverage. But while some will no doubt look for evidence of punches pulled—or redoubled, as it were—in Fox's Obama coverage, David says brother Ben is discreet.
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