Rove Advising McCain: Like it’s a Surprise?
ThinkProgress has a post up today about the Rove Electoral Map Meme, Faux News, and John McCain. Evidently Chris Wallace trotted out the same electoral maps that Hillary Clinton must be using to convince superdelegates to vote for her1 and asked John McCain about them.
Well, of COURSE Rove is advising McCain. Is that a surprise? In case anyone thinks so, please listen to as much as you can stand of Karl Rove’s speech a week ago extolling the virtues of McCain and how wonderfully strategic his campaign moves were. It’s about 15 minutes in — McCain leads it off. The most interesting part of this talk is to hear how hard he was on Barack Obama compared to his kid-glove handling of Hillary Clinton. Listening to it rather than watching gives another insight..vocal inflections matter.
The fact that Rove is advising McCain shouldn’t surprise anyone at all. What should be surprising, however, is that even one person would believe his punditry on Faux News to be fair or balanced. Let’s not forget about his Newsweek gig, too.
It’s a free country, sort of, so if Rove wants to advise McCain, he should. However, he shouldn’t get paid by a news network to campaign for McCain and he certainly shouldn’t be commenting on ANY aspect of the Democratic primary race on network TV. But he will. Because this is a free country and all, and Herr Rove is still the master of all.
1 As recently as this morning on Meet the Press, Ed Rendell painstakingly spun the electoral vote meme, saying that “the superdelegates have to look long and hard at making her the nominee” if she wins the states with the largest number of electoral votes.
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