Roving Reporter [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
Former Bush administration political advisor Karl Rove [3] has signed on as a columnist for Newsweek magazine, with his first column titled "How to Beat Hillary (Next) November [4]." Charles Kaiser notes the irony in Rove's decision to join the mainstream media: "In public, Rove is one of dozens of conservatives who assiduously bash the press. Last summer, channeling Agnew [5], Rove told Rush Limbaugh [6] that 'the people I see criticizing [Bush] are sort of elite effete snobs.' But at the same time, Rove was constantly massaging big-time Washington journalists over long lunches at the Hay Adams Hotel."