Fox News contributor Karl Rove awkwardly tried to evade his history of failing to disclose his financial and political interests in the 2014 Senate races he repeatedly discussed on Fox News Sunday, calling himself a pundit, “not a journalist.”

On the May 17 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday during a discussion of ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos' charitable giving to The Clinton Foundation, host Chris Wallace said that he had “taken some criticism this week,” for hosting Karl Rove on his show in 2014 to discuss Senate races he was involved in. Rove responded that he “would talk about” his involvement in Senate races, but then attempted to evade the criticism of his lack of disclosure by saying that he is “not a journalist.”

WALLACE: I've taken some criticism this week because we have you on the show in 2014 and you were talking about Senate races, and you're involved in Senate races.

ROVE: And I made those, I would talk about that. In fact, full disclosure, I've contributed to the Bush presidential library. There is no foundation engaged in supporting his lifestyle, but I've given to the Bush presidential library. But I'm not a journalist, I'm a pundit, I'm a commentator, I'm someone with an opinion.

Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume pushed back on Rove's excuse that he is “not a journalist,” stating, “Pundits are journalists too. You write a column, right?” (Rove also repeatedly used his column at The Wall Street Journal to analyze elections in 2012 that his political groups had a stake in without disclosing those ties.)

Indeed, leading up to the 2014 midterm elections, Fox News Sunday repeatedly failed to disclose Rove's role as a co-founder and advisor to super PAC American Crossroads and spinoff group Crossroads GPS during appearances where Rove commented on the races in which his groups spent money. The two groups spent more than $47 million combined during the 2014 election cycle for Republican candidates or against Democratic candidates.

During a September 21, 2014, appearance, Rove praised Republicans and trumpeted their chances of winning a Senate majority while only being identified as a “former Bush White House advisor” and a Fox News contributor. On October 12, Rove appeared on Fox News Sunday to back Republicans in Senate races in Alaska, Iowa, and North Carolina, and again the show failed to disclose Rove's ties to American Crossroads or Crossroads GPS, identifying him as only as a “former Bush White House advisor.” In one instance, American Crossroads had received a $300,000 donation from the parents of an Alaska Republican Senate candidate that Rove went on to praise during his Fox News Sunday appearance.