Karl Rove Hired As Newsweek Contributor To ‘Balance’ Markos

[donsu]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/15/karl-rove-newsweek/


Earlier this week, Newsweek announced that it is hiring DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas as a contributor for the 2008 presidential campaign, offering occasional opinion pieces. Markos said, “Newsweek is ‘balancing’ me out with someone that should make heads on our side explode.”

Now we know who. Newsweek has announced it is hiring Karl Rove to become a Newsweek contributor. From a Newsweek press release:

“Newsweek has a long tradition of asking practitioners and opinion-makers to offer our readers the benefits of their experience in occasional opinion essays,” said Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham. “Whether one agrees or disagrees with Karl, there is no arguing that he has been a critical player in the political world with insights and experiences that we think will give our readers something unique.”
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we could use Newsweek as toilet paper

[thereismore]

1. I'll cancel my subscription. nt

[Dinger]

3. Me Too

I've never done that before. Do they give you a refund?

[Bandit]

12. I will as well, if they wish to give substance to a TRAITOR

He knowingly and willingly outed a COVERT CIA Agent and classified her as "FAIR GAME" He is a TRAITOR to the USA and deserves time in Prison, not in a National News Magazine..

[mod mom]

2. Tweety had Blackwell on as a pundit recently. These guys deserve justice and a long jail

sentence. I guess it's ok if the Dems wait until * is gone so they can't be pardoned. This is another reason we need a Dem POPULIST president so these crooks don't get "Marc Rich-ed" .

[liberal N proud]

9. Blackwell has a new plan of attack as well...

I posted this last night... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3722522&mesg_id=3722522


Ken Blackwell to Chair National Conservative Activism Effort
Everyone remember Kenny Blackwell? Ohio Secretary of State overseeing the 2004 election farce in Ohio?



The Coalition for a Conservative Majority is a results driven grassroots action and information organization, the first such conservative organization worthy of the name. We will not be content to organize fund-raising databases or provide perches for figure-head leadership. Instead, CCM will: IDENTIFY, RECRUIT, TRAIN, INSPIRE, ACTIVATE, and MOBILIZE conservatives to take specific action on policy issues and political causes across the country.

CCM will organize in all 50 states and on the Internet to lay down a physical and virtual infrastructure. It will coordinate and direct grassroots action - phone and e-mail campaigns, letters to the editor and to elected officials, meeting requests for Members of Congress, grass- and net-roots information sessions, virtual policy conferences, blogs, and media call-in campaigns.


http://www.ccmajority.org/home/coalition-for-a-conservative-majority

[mod mom]

11. Thanks for posting this. I still don't understand why Conyers never called him or the Noes

to testify under oath. Noe is in jail where Balcwell and Noe's wife-Bernadette-also belong.

[C_U_L8R]

4. This "balanced" notion is utter BS

It supposes that the other side of the truth has some validity..
the other side of right deserves consideration,
the other side of good journalism commands equal time.
baloney is baloney no matter how you slice it.

[WGS]

13. I think the idea

here is to provide the information and let people make up their own minds on which points are valid, sounds fair to me.

[sam sarrha]

5. this is a VAST improvement.. i'd expect them to have 3 carl roves and no counter opinion

[watercolors]

6. Canceled mine last month

just in time, we are trying to cut back on useless expensives, and they are adding up to our surprise! With three grandsons in college we are trying to send each a little spending money each month. Now it goes to a better cause.

[rocktivity]

7. At least Markos IS an experienced writer whose credibility is still intact

Rove's "insights and experiences" are treasonus and criminal in nature. Cue the ghost writer!

:headbang:
rocknation

[momto3]

8. Time to cancel my subscription. eom

[adadem]

10. me, too

don't want one penny more of my money going to that scumbag. Bad enough our tax dollars paid his salary.

[donsu]

14. kicking back to pg. 1

nt