http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/karl_rove This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Karl Rove en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200807030007 In a <em>Wall Street Journal</em> op-ed, Karl Rove stated that an ad for Barack Obama "says he was raised with 'values straight from the Kansas heartland,' though he grew up in Hawaii." But Obama does not suggest in the ad that he was raised in Kansas; rather, he explicitly notes his mother and grandparents "grew up" there. Rove also asserted that Obama claims in the ad "to have passed three bills, but fails to mention that two were in the Illinois state Senate." However, Obama does not suggest that the bills referenced in the ad were passed by the U.S. Senate, and the ad displays the years in which the bills were passed. http://mediamatters.org/items/200807030007 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:32:07 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806260010 In a <em>Wall Street Journal</em> column, Karl Rove wrote, "After Rev. [Jeremiah] Wright repeated his anti-American slurs at the National Press Club, Mr. Obama said their relationship was forever changed -- but not because of what he'd said about America. Instead, Mr. Obama complained, 'I don't think he showed much concern for me.' " However, Rove cropped Obama's quote, excluding his next statement: "[M]ore importantly, I don't think he showed much concern for what we are trying to do in this campaign and what we're trying to do for the American people and with the American people." http://mediamatters.org/items/200806260010 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:28:24 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805280011 During a discussion of Scott McClellan's new book on <em>Hannity &amp; Colmes</em>, Karl Rove said that McClellan's "questions to me were: Did I leak Valerie Plame's name? And the answer is no. In fact, we know today that the name of Valerie Plame was leaked to Robert Novak by Richard Armitage, the number two guy at the State Department, and not by me." In fact, Novak identified both Rove and Armitage as the sources for his column that revealed Plame's employment with the CIA. And former <em>Time </em>magazine reporter Matthew Cooper named Rove as his source who identified former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife as a CIA agent. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805280011 Wed, 28 May 2008 19:59:16 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805220002 On <em>Hannity &amp; Colmes</em>, discussing issues that purportedly "have totally changed the narrative on Senator [Barack] Obama," Sean Hannity repeated a falsehood that he has promoted numerous times before, that Obama would advocate "possibly invading an ally, Pakistan." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805220002 Thu, 22 May 2008 14:03:07 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805140009 On <em>Hannity &amp; Colmes</em>, Sean Hannity asserted that Sen. Barack Obama said he would "maybe invade an ally like Pakistan." In fact, during an August 2007 speech, Obama did not say he would "invade an ally like Pakistan"; rather, Obama stated: "If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and [Pakistani] President [Pervez] Musharraf won't act, we will." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805140009 Wed, 14 May 2008 17:11:03 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200805080010 On <em>Special Report</em>, Juan Williams cited Sen. John McCain's record on immigration as evidence of a willingness to "work[] across party lines," without noting that McCain has said he no longer supports his own bipartisan bill. Williams then claimed that Sen. Barack Obama "doesn't have a record" of "working across party lines." In fact, Obama has co-sponsored bills with Republican Sens. Tom Coburn and Richard Lugar that have been signed into law. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805080010 Thu, 8 May 2008 18:55:23 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804180006 On <em>The O'Reilly Factor</em>, Karl Rove misrepresented Sen. Barack Obama's explanation for not wearing an American flag lapel pin, falsely asserting that Obama's comments amounted to saying, "If you wear a flag lapel pin, you're not a true patriot." In fact, Obama said he stopped wearing a pin because it had become "a substitute for, I think, true patriotism"; he did not say, as Rove claimed, that the wearer was "not a true patriot." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804180006 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:01:34 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804010005 On Fox News' <em>Hannity &amp; Colmes</em>, Fox News analyst Karl Rove said he had a "list of exaggerations" by Sen. Barack Obama. As one purported example, Rove said that Obama claimed, " 'I was a law school professor,' " before adding: "No, you were an instructor." But Obama was in fact a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804010005 Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:18:41 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803130005 Despite discussing on<em> The O'Reilly Factor</em> how Sen. John McCain should run against Sen. Barack Obama if he is the Democratic nominee, neither Karl Rove nor host Bill O'Reilly addressed Rove's reported role in "informally advising" McCain's campaign. Further, Rove did not disclose that he has reportedly given $2,300 to McCain's campaign. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803130005 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:58:54 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803050011 On <em>Fox &amp; Friends</em>, Karl Rove claimed that there is "a difference between" Sen. Barack Obama's current position on NAFTA and "what Senator Obama said in 2004, when he ran for the Senate and said we need more trade agreements like NAFTA." Rove cited no specific 2004 comments by Obama or news stories about Obama. In fact, Obama's statement during an interview on the same program echoed his position on trade as reported in a September 27, 2004, <em>Chicago Tribune</em> article, and several other media outlets reported similar statements from Obama in 2004. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803050011 Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:43:01 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803030007 On <em>Fox News Sunday</em>, in discussing Sen. Barack Obama's statement that money being spent on the war in Iraq "is money that we could be spending here in the United States, rebuilding our infrastructure, building schools, sending kids to university," Karl Rove quoted a "Democrat" he said he had spoken to in Los Angeles as saying, "I'm worried about that, because does that mean he's going to be looking at our support, for example, for the state of Israel and looking at it in terms of what could we be doing at home with those dollars?" However, Obama has consistently supported aid to Israel. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803030007 Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:22:20 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803020003 On <em>Fox News Sunday</em>, Karl Rove asserted of Sen. Barack Obama facing questions about the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan: "Now, having ties to Louis Farrakhan and his anti-Semitic comments, that's -- that's -- you know, people have a reason -- that's a reasonable question: Do you agree with him? Do you renounce him? Do you reject him?" In fact, Obama has denied that his campaign has "ties to" Farrakhan and has answered the questions posed by Rove, having repeatedly denounced Farrakhan's anti-Semitic statements. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803020003 Sun, 2 Mar 2008 19:01:18 EST