Karl Rove vs. Fox News
By Matt Negrin, November 6, 2012
Forget Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The most exciting matchup of the night was between Karl Rove and his employer, Fox News.
A little after 11 p.m., Fox News and every other news outlet called the presidential race for Obama. Rove, the mastermind of George W. Bush's campaign and now a political commentator on Fox, didn't buy it.
Why? According to Rove, who appeared to be going through extreme denial
that Mitt Romney had lost, there were too many outstanding votes in Ohio
to give the state to Obama, tipping the race in his favor.
No one else at Fox took his side. And to prove him wrong, Megyn Kelly walked down the hall in a live action shot to the "decision desk" that called the race and interviewed the men in charge.
Their response was essentially that while some counties haven't reported
all the Romney votes yet, there are too many votes unreported in
Democratic territory like Cleveland that it wouldn't matter.
"There just aren't enough Republican votes left for Mitt Romney to get there," said decision maker Chris Stirewalt.
Rove was apparently listening in. The jolly Fox host Bret Baier tried to describe Rove's reaction - the GOP strategist was writing things down, and pointing at Fox personality Bill Hemmer.
They cut to commercial. Then they came back and Rove was as defensive as ever. While the crowd in Chicago cheered and danced on the split screen, there was Rove, saying that all the votes in Ohio's Hamilton County needed to be cast. The projection, he said, was a "very early call."
Charles Krauthammer came on to talk about it. Then they cut back to the
screaming crowd in Chicago. And it was Kelly who turned the page.
"They are not listening to Karl," she said. "They don't care what Karl said."
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2 comments:
I think Krauthammer wrote Karl a prescription during the commercial break.
More about Rove:
"Republican strategist Karl Rove's very bad night"
http://news.yahoo.com/republican-strategist-karl-roves-very-bad-night-002109469.html
... Conservative activist Richard Viguerie said in a statement Wednesday that "in any logical universe," Rove "would never be hired to run or consult on a national campaign again and no one would give a dime to their ineffective Super PACs, such as American Crossroads." ...
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