It may be ten years too late, but someone in the mainstream media has finally called out Karl Rove for a lie.
Video courtesy of Think Progress:
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Karl Rove spent more than two minutes echoing the NRA’s false talking points, when he was called out by ABC’s Terry Moran.
Transcript:
MORAN: Karl — stop scaring people, you’re scaring people with this Orwellian sense, that black helicopters and the government if we register guns are going to confiscate Americans’ guns. That kind of paranoia fuels…
ROVE: Will all due respect, it’s not paranoia.
MORAN: Who is going to confiscate all of the guns in America?
ROVE: People have a fear of this. Why do it? Why do you need it? …
MORAN: Lots of things are registered in the United States of America, because their dangerous.
ROVE: And other things are constitutionally protected.
MORAN: No, we don’t. The result of this is that all the votes that have been taken since Newtown have weakened gun control in America. Some of those votes the Senate took last week to prevent the Justice Department for example from taking a look at gun shop owner inventory to make sure there haven’t been thefts. Voted down.
After getting George W. Bush into the White House, Rove dreamed of created a “permanent Republican majority.” The mainstream media spent years fawning over Karl Rove.
Rove’s reputation was built on the supposed genius of getting George W. Bush into the White House, but once he and W. were in power the truth was revealed. By 2004, the “Boy Genius” was out of ideas. Rove revealed himself to be a one trick pony who was all used up.
Karl Rove was able to use his reputation with the right to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for his group American Crossroads, and he spent nearly $105 million of right wing billionaire money for a 1% success rate in the 2012 election.
It is nice to see someone in the mainstream media call out Karl Rove face to face, but where was this type of questioning in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq? The media may be finally starting to get a clue that not challenging people like Karl Rove is bad for business, but it is impossible to escape the sense that this is a case of too little, too late.
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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