{"id":6008,"date":"2011-12-24T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T18:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6008"},"modified":"2011-12-24T10:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T18:19:34","slug":"fox-news-christmas-present-to-karl-rove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6008","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas Karl Rove, From Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of the holiday season, Fox News has given a Christmas gift to former George W. Bush political strategist, and current Fox employee, Karl Rove. The gift was a generous one that is worth tens of thousands of dollars, and it is exactly what Rove asked Santa Claus for: Free Advertising.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RM8JTo9Ztgc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rove&#8217;s latest attack ad bashing President Obama has received free air time on a variety of Fox News programs including Hannity, The Five and others. And the ad was not merely shown in the context of a news report, it received high praise from Fox pundits and presenters. Also, in most cases Fox never bothered to mention that the ad, which was produced by the <a href=\"http:\/\/americancrossroadswatch.org\/index.php?q=node\/1\" target=\"_blank\">American Crossroads<\/a> PAC, was in fact Rove&#8217;s vehicle for raising millions of dollars from secret corporate donors.<\/p>\n<p>This is blatant electioneering by Fox on behalf of the Republican Party. They should be required by law to report it as an in-kind contribution. It is additional evidence (as if any were necessary) that Fox&#8217;s claim to be <em>&#8220;fair and balanced&#8221;<\/em> is transparently dishonest. Can anyone imagine Fox giving the same sort of treatment to this ad by Priorities USA, a rival Democratic PAC (that coincidentally features Fox&#8217;s own Karl Rove)?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oz1aLR05eb8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;ll be the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of the holiday season, Fox News has given a Christmas gift to former George W. Bush political strategist, and current Fox employee, Karl Rove. The gift was a generous one that is worth tens of thousands of dollars, and it is exactly what Rove asked Santa Claus for: Free Advertising. Rove&#8217;s latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[33,45],"class_list":["post-6008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-karl-rove"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1yU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":778,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=778","url_meta":{"origin":6008,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Hiring Karl Rove?","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/31\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In a classic case of role reversal, Fox News is reportedly hiring George Bush's former brain, Karl Rove. 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Although there will be a transcription of the proceedings, it will not be released until\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":840,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=840","url_meta":{"origin":6008,"position":4},"title":"Karl Rove&#8217;s Blogger Smackdown","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/21\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Karl Rove may have been Bush's Brain, but the nimrods at NewsBlusters are the ones who seem to be in need of gray matter reinforcements. NB's Matthew Sheffield did an interview with Rove that is downright hilarious. 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