Media Gushes Over Rove...overlooks...damage he has wrought on America’s political system

[ProSense]

Media Gushes Over Rove: ‘Superstar,’ ‘Boy Genius,’ ‘The Mastermind Behind Everything’

As soon as Karl Rove’s departure from the White House was announced this morning, there was no shortage of talking heads to appear on TV to lavish praise on him. On Fox News, former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card called Rove “a superstar,” CBS White House Correspondent Bill Plante described him as “the mastermind behind everything,” and on MSNBC, Chris Matthews declared “generally, where there’s brains, there’s Rove.”

While Rove is undoubtedly a skilled campaign tactician, the hyperbolic image of him as a political genius overlooks his record of bungled political predictions, a series of policy failures and the damage he has wrought on America’s political system.

ThinkProgress has put together a highlights reel of the breathless adoration for Rove. Watch it:

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1. & the whole world throws up in their mouths.....

[Cobalt-60]

2. He's a rat's ass

The only move he knows is low blow.
Apply one to him first and he'll disappear.

[BeFree]

3. Damn Liberal media

To be serious: it's really The Illegitimate press.

Now illegitimate is a strong term, I know, but the bastards who are gang raping the truth are worthy.

[SteppingRazor]

4. I would even argue against him being a skilled campaign tactician.

He was involved in two quasi-successful presidential campaigns, the results of both of them extremely controversial. Other than that, his only wins have come in the extremely conservative-friendly states of Texas and Alabama. What's the big deal?

[Cha]

5. Mediawhores GUSH over

bullhorn bushit, "mission accomplished", anything rove does..didn't he promise them untold forturnes in 2000?

We need a new and improved "media".

Edit~ Recommended~ Tell me again why bush is a four letter word and his numbers are in the toilet?

[Bitwit1234]

6. Don't you mean damage on the United States.

Everything this turd has touched since he was old enough to engage in politics has turned to crap.

[Punkingal]

7. What a disgusting display....

I wonder what they would be saying if he were being frog marched out of the White House as he should be? Poor Karl?

[CatWoman]

8. i listened to one such report on NPR during my drive home

I literally wanted to ram my car into something :grr:

[bdamomma]

9. yea, what's more disgusting is that * shed a tear for carl

enough to make me do this :puke: