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POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jun 2, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- President Bush broke his promise to the country by refusing to fire aide Karl Rove for leaking a CIA agent's identity, said Scott McClellan, the president's chief spokesman for almost three years. "I think the president should have stood by his word an.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Aug 13, 2007 @ 8:11am neoform

CNN -- Karl Rove, President Bush's senior political adviser, will voluntarily step down from his White House post at the end of the month, senior administration officials said Monday. "Obviously it's a big loss to us, said deputy White House press secretary Dana.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

FOX News -- A rowdy protest broke out at the American University in Washington, D.C., Tuesday night after White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove delivered a speech on campus, local media reported. More than a dozen students began throwing things at Rove and h.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 7:49pm neoform

Alter Net -- Despite Karl Rove's portrayal of the U.S. Attorney scandal as something for Congress to "play around with," Bush officials will likely end up paying for their lying and ethical mistakes. Top White House aide Karl Rove continues to portray the U.S. Atto.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 8:07am neoform

Washington Post -- Vice President Cheney is going out of his way to make it clear that he doesn't think he has anything to apologize for. In an unprecedented display of public verbosity from the typically taciturn vice president, Cheney spoke for the second time in three.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Aug 15, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

CNN -- Karl Rove, perhaps the most powerful White House aide in recent history, called it quits Monday, provoking some to declare a symbolic end to the presidency of George W. Bush. Known as "Bush's brain" by critics and "the architect" by Bush himself, Rove ann.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Aug 13, 2007 @ 4:44pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- Rove, who masterminded president Bush's political campaigns in 2000 and 2004, has been under fire since 2003. Witness to history "I'm grateful to have been witness to history," an emotional Rove said on Monday as he appeared side by side with Bush.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Jul 5, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

Washington Post -- In late 2002, Alex Gage sold his share of a well-established polling firm and set about convincing Karl Rove that he had the answer to ensuring President Bush's reelection. His pitch was simple: Take corporate America's love affair with learning everyt.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Apr 1, 2007 @ 11:07am neoform

Yahoo News -- Presidential adviser by day, rapper by night: Karl Rove rocked the house in his hip-hop debut on an evening of rare levity for an administration under fire. The balding, bespectacled Rove was given a standing ovation at an annual broadcast journalists'.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Sat Mar 31, 2007 @ 9:00pm neoform

Alter Net -- An old CBS newscast reveals a predilection for tricks... and more hair... At the end of this 1972 Dan Rather newscast on the Nixon Republican machine, we see a young Karl Rove talking about bringing the youth into the GOP fold. As many have pointed.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 1:38am neoform

USA Today -- White House political strategist Karl Rove inquired about a replacement plan for U.S. attorneys in January 2005, raising questions about who initiated the plan and when. Rove's inquiry came a month earlier than the White House and Attorney General Albe.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Sat Nov 11, 2006 @ 11:38pm neoform

Financial Times -- When President George W. Bush lobbed a barb at Karl Rove, his chief political strategist, at his press conference, “I was obviously working harder on this campaign than he was,” there were notable “oohs” from the audience at the public slapdown... Read More