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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
Posted Sunday March 2, 2008 7:08:59 PM EST / Flag this comment
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 Sunday March 2, 2008 7:26:53 PM EST / Flag this comment
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 Sunday March 2, 2008 7:16:01 PM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by badsign_983914 in reply to Clevenative
Posted Monday March 3, 2008 11:11:52 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by nerzog in reply to Clevenative
Posted Monday March 3, 2008 12:28:17 PM EST / Flag this comment
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 Tuesday March 4, 2008 11:32:58 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by mary59
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 Sunday March 2, 2008 8:31:04 PM EST / Flag this comment
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 Sunday March 2, 2008 10:31:41 PM EST / Flag this comment
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 Sunday March 2, 2008 11:56:08 PM EST / Flag this comment
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 Monday March 3, 2008 8:19:20 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by jrshoes1
Posted Sunday March 2, 2008 11:39:06 PM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by badsign_983914 in reply to jrshoes1
Posted Monday March 3, 2008 12:45:10 PM EST / Flag this comment
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 Monday March 3, 2008 1:26:59 PM EST / Flag this comment
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 Monday March 3, 2008 8:20:21 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by IRONY 101 in reply to princeofwheels
Posted Monday March 3, 2008 9:10:53 AM EST / Flag this comment
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 Monday March 3, 2008 9:56:18 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by IRONY 101 in reply to princeofwheels
Posted Monday March 3, 2008 10:46:18 AM EST / Flag this comment
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 Monday March 3, 2008 2:48:01 PM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by Clevenative in reply to princeofwheels
Posted Monday March 3, 2008 4:04:41 PM EST / Flag this comment
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 Monday March 3, 2008 9:04:51 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by wolfbato
CIA Covert agent + Rove the Traitor = Rove in prison
Can't wait to see this scum-bag "frog marched" into Fed Prison.
Posted Monday March 3, 2008 10:55:48 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by donaldmaddog5642
Posted Monday March 3, 2008 11:14:58 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by IRONY 101 in reply to donaldmaddog5642
Posted Monday March 3, 2008 11:23:52 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to IRONY 101
Posted Monday March 3, 2008 11:49:43 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by representativepress
Posted Monday March 3, 2008 12:15:06 PM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by dazedandconfused26
Posted Monday March 3, 2008 12:27:24 PM EST / Flag this comment
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 Monday March 3, 2008 2:06:32 PM EST / Flag this comment
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 Monday March 3, 2008 2:06:45 PM EST / Flag this comment
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 Monday March 3, 2008 2:06:53 PM EST / Flag this comment
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 Monday March 3, 2008 2:07:27 PM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by billie789
Posted Monday March 3, 2008 2:15:15 PM EST / Flag this comment
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 Monday March 3, 2008 3:48:37 PM EST / Flag this comment
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....
Posted Tuesday March 4, 2008 11:36:02 AM EST / Flag this comment
Posted by hurricaneyankee52983
Posted Wednesday March 5, 2008 1:26:27 AM EST / Flag this comment