Newsweek's new byline: Karl Rove

That is great!

Classic...

MC Rove should be in prison, not Newsweek. Maybe they can get OJ to write some sports columns. Markos loses credibility in this deal IMO because he's being 'balanced' with a known professional liar (Rove).

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Karl Rove is scum:

Aug. 20, 2007 | On Fox News Sunday morning, Karl Rove played the victim. He told host Chris Wallace that in the wake of his resignation as White House deputy chief of staff, his enemies were on the hunt. Rove compared himself to a legendary monster whom the ancient Anglo-Saxon hero Beowulf sought to slay. "I mean, I'm a myth, and they're ... You know, I'm Grendel ... They're after me."

But Rove, who pursued his Democratic foes with a relentless repertoire of dirty tricks, smears and outright lies, won't win many sympathizers by depicting himself as unfairly maligned. He is likely to be remembered above all for his own expertise at demonization, specifically for his ability to paint his political opponents as unreliable partners in the "war on terror" -- as traitors to the United States. A master propagandist, he portrayed his rivals as fellow travelers with Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and Saddam Hussein. Like Cain, from whom Grendel was said to be descended, Rove was more interested in fratricide than in the welfare of his people.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/08/20/rove/

The following are quotes from Adolf Hitler, Rove's role model. Interesting how many of these tenets made their way into Rove's playbook:

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

Great liars are also great magicians.

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

A conservative among all those libs at Newsweek? Guess there just weren't enough left-wingers in the countr to keep the magazine afloat.

A conservative among all those libs at Newsweek? Guess there just weren't enough left-wingers in the countr to keep the magazine afloat.

Posted by: Jericho | November 15, 2007 9:22 PM

Rove isn't a conservative, he's the anti-Christ. BTW, Jer, watch out for that vast, left-wing conspiracy.

I am going to cancel my subscription to Newsweek since they hired Karl Rove. Seriously. Rove was the "architect" of so much hate, death, debt and waste. I would not care to answer or respond to his opinion--ever. How would I know what was a fact or a lie in his writings?

Ya gotta love Newsweek...We're pandering ever lower! Our new motto! Another reason not to waste 10 seconds of my time on that rag.

Karl Rove is a great American and his column will be inspirational and always informative.
Forget the Daily Kos guy he's on something his posts are anti-conservative and pure new age psychobabble. He is a socialist/communist and a secular humanist who gins up hatred for President Bush and the Judeo-Christian heritage of America.
Kos is anti-American as most of the liberal Democrats are too.
Vivian I'm sure Newsweek won't miss your subscription. Jerry White, Springfield, IL

Here is Vivian, one of the Loony Lefters:

I am going to cancel my subscription to Newsweek since they hired Karl Rove. Seriously. Rove was the "architect" of so much hate, death, debt and waste. I would not care to answer or respond to his opinion--ever. How would I know what was a fact or a lie in his writings?

Posted by: Vivian | November 15, 2007 10:23 PM

Yet, we have the usual maniacal drivel from the likes of dt and weinerbrain, venom and hatred spewing at normal Loony Left levels, and Vivian says Rove was about hate?
Sorry, Viv, but most of the hate in the world comes directly from the Left.

And, then Newsweek hires the Daily Kook? Give me a break. This NIU grad is the master of hate, lies, deception, and complete and utter BS. What a crock!

John D and Jerry White--out looking for the 10 step program: Those Who Love And Champion The Liars And Killers Too Much And Don't Know How To Let Go. Sorry for your illness boys.
I suspect many others will not want to buy Newsweek.

"I am going to cancel my subscription to Newsweek since they hired Karl Rove. ... How would I know what was a fact or a lie in his writings?

Posted by: Vivian | November 15, 2007 10:23 PM"

Vivian, obviously you're free to do whatever you want with your subscription. Might I suggest that one way you could know what's fact and what's lie in his writings is to read them and think about them for yourself.

I don't miss Ann Coulter's column weekly -- I use it as an exercise in parsing out what's an actual fact and what's just empty wording. Of that which is given as fact by her, then it's possible to further figure out what's TRUE fact and what's FICTIONAL fact. One week, I remember, I whittled down the 500-or-so words she wrote to about 18 that were not ranting rhetoric, skewed "sort-of-quasi-factual" stuff that was yanked from its context and embellished with her own unique wit, some RNC talking point that had NEVER had a basis in fact, or outright hate talk about wishing some group or other would die horribly. I don't know what I'd do without her! Perhaps Rove could perform the same benefit for you.

Op109-- No thanks. I can't see Rove as a "benefit" to me in any way. One good thing, though, is that if Rove electronically submits his columns to Newsweek they might get "lost", and he could claim that he didn't know what server they went to, or how to produce them again. Or, they could get mixed up with RNC business online.

If Rove did say on Fox News, "You know, I'm Grendel"-- that is telling. As dt already posted here-- there is a line in Beowulf that states Grendel descended from Cain-- the first murderer.