Fox News is revealing their true agenda by congratulating Karl Rove for smearing Hillary Clinton by claiming that she has brain damage.
Video of Fox News praising Rove:
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Eric Bolling said on The Five, “I think he’s an evil genius. I love Karl…Look, he planted a seed, and now the left and the right are watering it like crazy, and guess what? It’s starting to sprout, and you have to ask the question. Is she capable? Is she okay? What’s with the lens on that left eyeglass after her head bump? Bolling went on to claim that Rove was actually wrong, because President Clinton said she was injured for 6 months, not three.
However, former President Clinton never said that his wife was injured for six months.
Video of former President Clinton:
Clinton said, “They went to all this trouble to say that she staged what was a terrible concussion that required six months of really serious work to get over. It’s something that she never lowballed with the American people, never tried to pretend it didn’t happen.”
Remember, Karl Rove and Fox News are claiming that former Sec. of State Clinton was hospitalized for three months. Former President Clinton said that she had to work for six months to recover. That doesn’t mean that she was hospitalized, incapacitated, or not capable of doing her job.
The only seed that is growing is the seed of new conspiracy theory that has sprouted up on Fox News and talk radio. Rove has been widely mocked to the point where he had to try to walk back his comments by claiming that he never said that Hillary Clinton has brain damage.
I’ll bet the Koch brothers and the other right wing billionaires don’t think Rove is such a genius after he wasted $300 million of their money on a completely losing effort in 2012. Rove got a 1.3% return on the billionaires’ investment in 2012. That means that only 1% of the money got the supported candidate elected, or the opposed candidate defeated. To put it another way, 99% of the money that Rove spent lost. Those aren’t exactly genius results.
Fox News’ willingness to give ol’ Turd Blossom a hearty pat on the back shows what the pretend news organization is all about. Fox News is shifting gears away from President Obama and is becoming more and more about stopping Hillary Clinton. Fox is trying to push the brain damage conspiracy under the disguise of news.
This is a three part fail. Karl Rove isn’t a genius. Fox News isn’t news, and Hillary Clinton does not have brain damage.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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