Posted on 11/15/2007 3:15:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Less than three months after he left his post as the White House’s deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove has agreed to become a Newsweek contributor and will pen opinion pieces for the magazine and its Web site.
Rove will turn out several columns on the 2008 campaign up until inauguration day, according to the Washington Post.
In a statement, Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham said: “Newsweek has a long tradition of asking practitioners and opinion-makers to offer our readers the benefits of their experience in occasional opinion essays.
“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.”
Rove has not been a friend of the press in the past. Last year he suggested that journalists frequently criticized political figures because “they want to draw attention away from the corrosive role their coverage has played focusing attention on process and not substance.”
He also charged that the press has an “obsessive reliance” on polls.
And as for media criticism, he told Rush Limbaugh: “If you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you’ve got a pretty sorry existence.”
Newsweek will also give regular space to Markos Moulitsas, the far-left founder of the Web site Daily Kos.
Said Meacham: “I’m fully prepared for both the right-wing and left-wing blogosphere to be outraged, which means we’re doing our job.”
Seen how thin this rag has gotten? Not worth five cents a copy.
I always liked U.S. News & World Report, back in the good old days when they were semi-conservative (at least compared to the others).
Must have offered him lots of $$$$’s.
Rove is a fool
Haven't read Newsweak in decades.
But then David Gurgle became their main spokeseunic.
So now, with Rove accepting the gig at noozweak, the little bitch from the KOS gets the same legitamacy and stature as Rove.
Are you kidding? I can’t wait! LOL
I don’t think Karl is all that conservative; and they will never have a real conservative to balance(LOL)if they can help. Lib rags just don’t do that.
“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.”
A rough translation: Circulation and subscriptions have fallen so hard that we had to sell the furniture just to make the pay roll. If we don’t offer something that interests a paying customer the editor will have to prostitute himself...again.
Not if he's got the gig set up to where they won't edit him...he'll be preaching to the left's choir for a change.
There was no difference bvetween Rove and the Libs on the subject of Illegal Immigration. He’s all for it, and so are they. Why would they not love him? He’s one of their own who got to the highest unelected job in the U.S.
newsweek?
they tired of losing readership?
-at one time he was the hero of the conservatives...NOW you won’t find a conservative who will bother to buy a copy to read his columns.
Looks like Rove will be the “token” conservative.
I somehow wound up getting a coplimentary trial subscription to this rag. It goes straight into the trash every week. I feel like I need to disinfect my mailbox now.
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