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On Fox News Sunday, Rove and Wallace failed to note Obama has answered questions about Farrakhan

Summary: On Fox News Sunday, Karl Rove asserted of Sen. Barack Obama facing questions about the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan: "Now, having ties to Louis Farrakhan and his anti-Semitic comments, that's -- that's -- you know, people have a reason -- that's a reasonable question: Do you agree with him? Do you renounce him? Do you reject him?" In fact, Obama has denied that his campaign has "ties to" Farrakhan and has answered the questions posed by Rove, having repeatedly denounced Farrakhan's anti-Semitic statements.
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Posted by heru

First of all, Rove should be in federal prison. If the candidates must renounce every supporter who has said hateful things, I have a list of white racists on the McCain Express a mile long for McCain to start denouncing right now. Let's see Michael Savage is a good place to start....

Posted by Clevenative in reply to heru

Don’t be so anxious to lock him up. He’s on track to being instrumental in BRINGING DOWN Faux News – just like he has done to The Republican Party. Leave him enough rope to hang himself – unless it turns out to be just an asphyxiophilia fetish for him – then we’ll have to work on  getting him to prison where he’ll have plenty of time to clean up his act while he’s busy picking up the soap. The sad part is, either way it works out, the guy will still be happy with himself.

Posted by Clevenative

This is soooo funny when we have almost the exact same scenerio with Hagee's anti-catholic remarks and his "ties" to McCain. NOT EVEN MENTIONED!

At least Obama HAS denounced Farrakhan while McCain refuses to break his "ties" with Hagee.

I can't believe they had the balls to even bring this issue up. Then they LIE about it. How can ANYONE with half a brain possibly look at Fox News as a legitimate news source?

Posted by badsign_983914 in reply to Clevenative

Actually the discussio did turn to Hagee's anti-Catholics statements with the next comment. Amazing how Media Matters chose to end the transcript when it did. I thought they were supposed to be a watchdog, not perpetuate negative sterotypes about Fox News. They are engaged in exactly the same type of selective editting that they acuse the right wing about.

Posted by nerzog in reply to Clevenative

I think we all know that McCain cannot afford to alienate the evangelical pinheads who consider Hagee to be God's mouthpiece. His only chance in November is if the knuckledragging GOP base turns out heavily for him, and the marginal Democrats who are racists at heart stay home. The Republicans can't win on the issues; their only chance is to play to the lowest common denominators.... fear, bigotry and ignorance.

Posted by wzwriter in reply to Clevenative

How can ANYONE with half a brain possibly look at Fox News as a legitimate news source?

Proof positive that the dittoheads and neo-cons have less than half a brain.  :-)

But even worse, there was a conservative woman who used to participate on another web board that I frequent - she called herself a "CCR" - Conservative, Christian, and Republican.  And she used to say that she considered Faux News to be to LIBERAL - she preferred getting her "information" from places line NewsMax, CNS, and World Nut Daily....

Posted by mary59

Rove:

I grew so corrupt that I was sent

By Bush/Cheney thugs to make them president.

I always voted at my party's call,

And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

Chorus.

He never thought of thinking for himself at all.

Rove:

I thought so little, they rewarded me

By making me the Ruler of the presidency!

Chorus.

He thought so little, they rewarded he

By making him the Ruler of the presidency!

Rove:

Now wing-nuts all, whoever you may be,

If you want to rise to the top of the tree,

If your soul isn't fettered to the Golden Rule

You're certain to become a hack, a crook and a tool.

Chorus.

You're certain to become a hack, a crook and a tool.

Rove:

Just lie like a thug with a head full of rocks

You'll be certain to be hired as a pundit by Fox.

Chorus.

Just lie like a thug with a head full of rocks

You'll be certain to be hired as a pundit by Fox.

Posted by steeve

What can be made of this?  The Farrakhan card is just as stupid and pathetic as the Hussein card.  How can Rove possibly denounce one and push the other?

It's clear that Rove is and always has been a moron.  As Somerby said, "it isn’t hard to be a genius if the press is prepared to accept every BS thing your guy says."

Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to steeve

I know I'm sick, but I was hanging around home this afternoon and flipped by Fox periodically to check out their Sunday circus. It's just amazing to see Karl Rove on there, getting loads of "Welcome to the Fox Team!" shout-outs. Fox seems to be ditching even the flimsy appearance  of being anything but a GOP outlet they used to try.

I even checked out a bit of Hannity's America. He's also completely ignoring the McCain/Hagee topic while spending a good chunk of his show painting Barack Obama as a radical separatist.

It's a little unnerving to think there are people watching this station for anything but laughs.

 

Posted by Clevenative in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders

COL: For us it is just laughs, but for their target audience it is like going to church – a place you can go to hear what you need to hear to help make you feel better about yourself despite your sins, be told how to live your life as a good Republican, how your “religion” holds the most “values” for the good of mankind, and how anyone who is not a believer is evil and deserving of scorn and hate.

I wish I was exaggerating here – but that’s the way it is.

Posted by jrshoes1

Rove and Wallace and the other scumbags from Fox are some how evading going to jail for lying to the world daily..  There must be a law somewhere that will put them all away and spare us the dribble that spews form their lips.

Posted by badsign_983914 in reply to jrshoes1

As opposed to the lies spread by the New York Times, Washington Post, and LA Times? The New York Times has actually had to fire reporters for stories that were proven to be complete fabrications. Remember Dan Rather and the George Bush National Guard story? Just because Fox is biased doesn't mean everyone else isn't. Their bias is just okay because they agree with you.

Posted by fawltylogic in reply to badsign_983914

So... you say NY Times and CBS fired people for their alleged bias... doesn't that actually disprove your accusation that they are biased? Do you have any examples of Fox News firing staff for bias?

You need to work on your logic skills.

Posted by princeofwheels

Is Brit Hume a twit or what? Does he ever LISTEN to anyone? All he does is spout the ConLine. As Williams told him, "you missed the whole story...". How do you miss the whole story when you are a journalist? OOPS, I forot, he is a prompter reader on Fox. Sorry Brit, continue.

Karl, keep this job. It will keep the 25% of your followers glued to the TV and off the streets.                           Karl, you are the reason Fox was created. You deserve your own show. YOU, Karl Rove, deserve more. But, being known a genius, I think you have found your limitation...talking on Fox, a goal of every Finafin in the world.

Posted by IRONY 101 in reply to princeofwheels

Indeed, the comforting thought is that while that approximately 30% of the Republican base remain hard core right wingers the rest of the Republican Party is in a state of flux. Rove is preaching to the hard core right wing choir. And as you point out the purpose of FOX News is to keep that hard core base in the fold and fired up. As for the rest of the Republican Party, if they are openly challenging the likes of media personalities such as Rush Limbaugh then how much influence does Karl Rove have? Not much I would imagine.

Posted by princeofwheels in reply to IRONY 101

Exploding Conservatives Heads will soon cover the headlines of the news coverage. They cannot believe that their "word" is no longer accepted by the norm.  Personally, I think that the mental wards will soon fill with this 30% and they will expect everyone to foot their bill. Now that is irony!!

Limbaugh and Rove in the same padded cell. They can talk about the glory years. But who will be listening..neither ever have listened.

Posted by IRONY 101 in reply to princeofwheels

As an example, a right wing relative of mine commented a couple of months ago about Ron Paul's staunch anti-war position, something to the effect of "Where did thay dig up this guy?" I was compelled to point out to her that at the time a majority of Americans believed that the Iraq war was a mistake and wanted us out of Iraq...and therefore her pro-war stance was what was actually out of the mainstream, and not Ron Paul's position. Since then, however, I understand that anti-war sentiment may be softening. Nevertheless, it's true what you say that right wingers are experiencing shock that their views are not the dominant ones anymore. My theory is that many of these right wing people live in homogenized communities and the information they receive is simply echo chamber stuff.

Posted by princeofwheels in reply to IRONY 101

Mr. Rove will be appearing at the Univ. of Pittsburgh this evening. The head of the Republan party around here was all over the airwaves claiming that his talk/question answer session is sold-out as his events usually are.. It sure is, the students ate up all 500 hundred tickets. Betcha Obama can't do that ;).

The grand part of this is that the professor "helped" chose the students questions...AND, THEY ARE POSTED ON  YOU TUBE, right now. And tomorrow, the Republans will claim it was a gotcha session. Are they sure it is not the President who is coming to Pitt? But what is the difference, Rove/Bush, Bush/Rove. Bove/Rush, Ruve/Bosh...it is one in the same.

Posted by Clevenative in reply to princeofwheels

Let me know if you find out they played "Hail To The Chief" when he walked into the room? :)

Posted by Marker

Can't wait to see the thumping these clowns will take in November. Rove is a typical repug, ugly, short, insecure, half a man, just like Limbaugh. I know alot of repugs and they pretty much fall in the same category. It's why they hate Hollywood, all the beautiful people and they're not one of them and never will be.

Posted by wolfbato

Ex-Gov sent to jail + False Charges = Rove in prison

CIA Covert agent + Rove the Traitor = Rove in prison

Can't wait to see this scum-bag "frog marched" into Fed Prison.

Posted by donaldmaddog5642

This is the "logic" used by Da Mediah on this: "There are car-jackings in New Orleans. Donald Waits (me) lives in New Orleans. Donald Waits supports car-jackings." My little old head is just EXPLODING! The twits (I love that word) in the Media have all repeatedly reported Obama's comments about Farrakhan's idiotic stance. He has been quoted as "consistently denounceing" Farrakhan's views and "rejected" said "Minister's" views. What is so difficult to grasp? Once again, what a person says is not taken as enough. "Donald Waits said that he thinks car-jacking is disgusting, horrible, and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law!" "But. you know Britt (Rove, Sean, Tucker, etc.) Waits didn't say he "rejected" car-jacking, did he? So what's Waits hiding behind? Is there a possibility that Waits secretly condones car-jacking? More after the break..."

Posted by IRONY 101 in reply to donaldmaddog5642

Well, the fact that most likely you are secretly a Muslim, Donald, may explain why you are soft on car jacking...I don't know how exactly, but I'm sure there must be a correlation. BTW, when was the last time you actually killed a carjacker, huh?

Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to IRONY 101

I would reserve judgement.... until Donald tells us what his middle name is (suspiciously not mentioned in his post), and explains that name to us.
There are a lot of things they don't admit. See the latest news exposing hte wrongs at   Representative Press's Channel Guide #1

Posted by dazedandconfused26

I think Faux is just counting on the idea that the morons who watch their station wouldn't watch the Dem debate or just about any of those other "liberal" news stations.

Posted by August Heat

Fox is not interested in the truth.  This is the same outfit that overwhemingly supported the Bush Administration in all its blunders.  They consistently had the terror alert elevated whenever it would help Bush's agenda or policy for the war.  According to Fox, the war was going great until the liberal media put its negative spin on things (sarcasm).  Also, one of their bobble heads became the press secretary for the United States of America.  So no, Karl Rove's acceptance by Fux Noise is not surprising.  He's only preaching to the choir.  Too bad his song is outdated and needs new lyrics. 

Posted by August Heat

Fox is not interested in the truth.  This is the same outfit that overwhemingly supported the Bush Administration in all its blunders.  They consistently had the terror alert elevated whenever it would help Bush's agenda or policy for the war.  According to Fox, the war was going great until the liberal media put its negative spin on things (sarcasm).  Also, one of their bobble heads became the press secretary for the United States of America.  So no, Karl Rove's acceptance by Fux Noise is not surprising.  He's only preaching to the choir.  Too bad his song is outdated and needs new lyrics. 

Posted by August Heat

Fox is not interested in the truth.  This is the same outfit that overwhemingly supported the Bush Administration in all its blunders.  They consistently had the terror alert elevated whenever it would help Bush's agenda or policy for the war.  According to Fox, the war was going great until the liberal media put its negative spin on things (sarcasm).  Also, one of their bobble heads became the press secretary for the United States of America.  So no, Karl Rove's acceptance by Fux Noise is not surprising.  He's only preaching to the choir.  Too bad his song is outdated and needs new lyrics. 

Posted by August Heat

Fox is not interested in the truth.  This is the same outfit that overwhemingly supported the Bush Administration in all its blunders.  They consistently had the terror alert elevated whenever it would help Bush's agenda or policy for the war.  According to Fox, the war was going great until the liberal media put its negative spin on things (sarcasm).  Also, one of their bobble heads became the press secretary for the United States of America.  So no, Karl Rove's acceptance by Fux Noise is not surprising.  He's only preaching to the choir.  Too bad his song is outdated and needs new lyrics. 

Posted by billie789

WTF? Turd Blossom's out on work release?!?

Posted by public takeover

I can't wait to see the shit-eating grins on Kristol, Rove and Wallace (and Williams, too, for that matter) when they finally get so buried under the naked filth they themselves have been spewing and tolerating at Fox News and the Republican Party.

"They can't fool all the people all the time."

The people have caught on to Fox, and the only fools are the pundits on that network.

Rove should have taken his own words more seriously before he signed up to be a paid professional propagandist, "It can backfire when you take things too far."

Well, they've gone too far and it is backfiring.

Posted by wzwriter

Fox News contributor and former White House senior political adviser Karl Rove...

Gee, Rupert Murdoch seems to have no trouble giving air time to criminals - Oliver North, Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, and now KKKarl Rove....

Rove , Wallace,and Kristol, a trio of neocon nut jobs. How can anyone believe that these clowns can be objective.This is just another example of "fair and balanced" false news channel.