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Rove: Don’t Blame Bush For The Housing Mess

Chris Jones — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:42:50 +0000

“The Architect” Karl Rove lays out the ugly truth about the housing crisis and how it came to be in his latest column for the WSJ. Don’t buy into the left-wing narrative that “Bush economic policies” are to blame for our lot in life.

To the contrary, it was Bush and the republicans who spent years trying to push through legislation that would have brought Fannie and Freddie under control. Unfortunately, the legislation was always blocked courtesy of the democrats led by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.

Code Pink Protester Tries To ‘Arrest’ Karl Rove

Chris Jones — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:23:23 +0000

I was just thinking the other day that I haven’t seen the Code Pinkos off their meds in a while, but they made a strong and ridiculous comeback on Tuesday.

Former Bush aide Karl Rove (The Devil) was on a panel in San Francisco discussing the mortgage crisis, when all of a sudden one of the broads from Code Pink appears on stage and attempts to handcuff Rove. She screamed that she was making a “citizen’s arrest” of Karl for ‘”treason.”

Security appeared seconds later and dragged the woman from the stage and booted her out along with five other Pinkos in the audience.

Karl Rove Launches Website

Chris Jones — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:29:44 +0000

Karl Rove has finally launched a website. You can find his columns, Fox News appearances, election coverage, and even book him for an appearance.

Chris Wallace Strikes Back At Fox News Critics

Chris Jones — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:35:03 +0000

Chris Wallace

It was a wonderful thing to read about Chris Wallace calling out MSNBC and the media in general for their blatant bias. Wallace made the remarks as part of a panel discussing media bias at the Television Critics Association in Los Angeles. The panel included Chris Wallace, Karl Rove, Howard Wolfson, and Fox VP John Moody.

The panel took questions from a large group of journalists who predictably went after Karl Rove right from the jump.

Does having Karl Rove as a commentator, given the whole testifying debacle, undermine the credibility of Fox News?

John Moody: “Mr. Rove is a certified authority on the electoral process, on politics. His track record speaks for itself. His current difference of opinion with Congress is between him and Congress.”

A while later, Rove clarified:
“It is not between me and Congress. I have not asserted any personal privilege. It’s between the White House and Congress.”

The media went on to question Rove’s credibility and ask what his role was in the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.

Then Chris Wallace chimed in,

“I’m struck by what I think is a double standard in the questions that particularly Karl is being asked here,” Wallace said. “I don’t understand why it is that if Congress and the White House are having a fight over executive power, that should any way constrain an independent news organization’s decision about whom to have on its payroll. I question whether if it were a conservative Congress that had subpoenaed James Carville, let’s say, whether you’d be asking CNN why they’re [employing] James Carville.”

Shouts and jeers erupted from some journalists who yelled that they would question it.

“You would,” responded Wallace. “I wonder.”

He then went further,

“The fact is,” Wallace said, “that NBC News just hired [Republican strategist] Mike Murphy, who, with all respect to Karl, has a much closer relationship with John McCain than Karl does. I’ll be curious to see whether you ask NBC about the fact that they’ve hired Mike Murphy and whether that’s a wise hiring of an interesting Republican analyst or whether that somehow compromises the journalistic integrity of MSNBC.”

The best part was when someone asked Wallace about Fox rival MSNBC.

“I think that MSNBC, in its coverage of this campaign, went so far over the line in terms of being in the tank to Barack Obama that it lost a lot of credibility,” said the host of “Fox News Sunday.” “For all the criticism we sometimes get about allowing our politics to infuse our journalism, the fact is that there is something of a firewall on Fox.

“You have the straight news reporters anchoring the election coverage week after week. [On MSNBC] you’ve got someone like Keith Olbermann who was delivering 10-minute screeds against President Bush — telling him to shut the hell up — telling Hillary Clinton to get out of the campaign. Which I think is fine. If he wants to say those things, let him say it. It’s an interesting show. I sometimes watch it myself.”

Then Wallace cited what he saw as the problem: Olbermann anchors the coverage “as a so-called objective anchor.” Wallace noted that Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity don’t anchor the election coverage, the conventions or Election Night on Fox News.

“Our feeling is opinion makers should deliver their opinions, and the journalists should cover the news,” Wallace said.

Thank God somebody said it, because it needed to be said. MSNBC’s coverage of the primaries was an absolute disgrace. Wallace was wrong to say MSNBC “lost a lot” of credibility, because they actually lost “all” credibility. There is nothing even remotely objective about the way that network covers politics. It’s one thing for bloggers to yell about blatant media bias, but it tends to have real impact when someone like Wallace speaks the truth in a venue like that.

-Chris Jones

(hat tip to johnny$)

Rove Refuses To Testify, Democrats Cry

Chris Jones — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:44:06 +0000

It was hard to keep from laughing this morning when a placard with Karl Rove’s name sat in front of an empty chair where the former Presidential aide was supposed to testify. Democrats have tried unsuccessfully to tie Karl Rove to some kind of scandal for the last seven years.

They tried to blame him for the Valerie Plame leak case, the attorney firings, and most recently the Don Siegelman case. For Democrats to suggest that Karl Rove engineered Siegelman’s bribery charge and subsequent conviction just to get him out of the way politically is absurd in the extreme.

It really speaks to the irrational paranoia that exists in the Democratic party. It’s not possible that Alabama just had a corrupt Governor, it had to be part of the legendary “vast right-wing conspiracy.”

So there’s a certain amount of perverse pleasure in watching Rove give Congress the middle digit instead of participating in an election year dog and pony show.

Red faced Democrats stomped their feet and threatened to have Rove arrested if he did not appear, but still his chair remained empty.

The only testimony Democrats received today from Karl Rove was in the form of a letter from his attorney. The letter reminded the Judiciary committee that threatening Mr. Rove won’t clear up the situation any faster. The letter also noted that Rove has a letter from the Justice Department declaring him “constitutionally immune from compelled congressional testimony.” Which roughly translated means the only thing Rove is compelled to give Congress is the middle digit.

The Democrats haven’t said how they plan to get around that little inconvenient fact, which makes all their threats and chest thumping ring all the more hollow.

The President decided long ago that Rove didn’t have to testify, citing executive privilege. The Justice Department agreed, which is how Rove got that letter.

You’d think by now the Democrats would’ve learned that once “The Decider” decides something, it’s decided. Seeing Karl Rove taken away in leg irons is the ultimate fantasy for Democrats, but unfortunately for them it’s going to have to remain just that—a fantasy.

House Dems Promise To “Arrest” Rove If He Refuses To Testify

Chris Jones — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:14:05 +0000

You can always count on some good comic relief from the Democratically controlled Congress. The House Judiciary committee is planning to arrest Karl Rove if he refuses to testify about his role in the faux U.S. Attorney firing scandal.

This according to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) who made the hilarious claim in an interview on The Obama Network MSNBC.

Asked by MSNBC host Dan Abrams if the committee would go far as having Rove arrested, Wasserman said it would.

“Well, if that’s what it takes,” she said. “I mean we really cannot allow the co-equal branch of government, the legislative branch, to be trampled upon by the executive branch. The founding fathers established three branches of government. We are a co-equal branch, and this is an administration that essentially has ignored and disrespected the role of the legislative branch for far too long.”

We’ve seen Kabuki theater from the Democrats before, but this is gonna be good!

House Panel Subpeonas Rove

Chris Jones — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:08:46 +0000

Via AFP:

A US House of Representatives committee on Thursday subpoenaed President George W. Bush’s former political guru Karl Rove to testify in a fierce political row over the firing of federal prosecutors.

The move was the latest bid by the Democratic-led Congress to probe the furor over claims the prosecutors were dismissed for political reasons, which contributed to the resignation of attorney general Alberto Gonzales last year.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers said he had no option but to issue the subpoena, after exhaustive negotiations with Rove’s lawyer.

“It is unfortunate that Mr Rove has failed to cooperate with our requests,” Conyers said in a statement.

“Although he does not seem the least bit hesitant to discuss these issues weekly on cable television and in the print news media.”

The Democrats have been on a witch hunt ever sense they took the majority in Congress. This U.S. attorney probe is just one of many endless investigations that will end with millions of dollars wasted and no crimes discovered.

Of course, the Dems will still insist that Rove was guilty of something but they unfortunately were just never able to prove it.

Video: Karl Rove Does Bill Clinton Impression On O’Reilly Factor

Chris Jones — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:22:20 +0000

He really does sound just like him!

Karl Rove: “The Horns and Tail are Retractable”

Chris Jones — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:18:56 +0000

It’s nice to see a room full of good Americans willing to shout back at the nutty anti-war thugs who don’t like differing viewpoints to be heard. “The horns and tail are retractable” was a good line as well.

-Chris Jones

Karl Rove Calls CBS “National Enquirer Of Network News”

Chris Jones — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:33:23 +0000

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