Media repeated Rove's assessment of 2008 election without noting he was wrong in 2006 |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 5:12 pm |
| Tags: abc, cbs, good morning america, nbc, the early show, the new york times, the washington post, today show, wall street journal, 2008 elections, government elections, media, propaganda noise machine |
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In an August 13 commentary on his recent interview with Karl Rove, during which Rove announced he would resign his position as White House deputy chief of staff effective August 31, Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot uncritically quoted Rove's predictions that President Bush "will move back up in the polls" and that "'Iraq will be in a better place' as the surge continues." Gigot also reported Rove's assertion that the Democrats will nominate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) -- "a tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate" -- as their 2008 presidential nominee and that Republicans have "a very good chance" of winning the White House in 2008. But Gigot and several others who subsequently reported these claims did not mention Rove's flawed assessment before the 2006 midterm election, when he told the media that "the math" indicated that Republicans would "keep" their majorities in the U.S. House and Senate. In his Wall [ Full article ] |
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