On the October 20 edition of Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, Dick Morris -- a political analyst and former adviser to President Bill Clinton -- professed his love for White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove. When host Bill O'Reilly asked Morris to predict the fate of Rove and vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby in the grand jury investigation into the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame, Morris said: “I love Karl Rove. He deserves better. He's magnificent. He elected Bush. The country owes him a debt.”

From the October 20 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

OREILLY: All right, Rove/Libby. All I want from you is a prediction. You got a prediction?

MORRIS: Oh, God. I love Karl Rove. He deserves better. He's magnificent. He elected Bush. The country owes him a debt, but I think he and Libby are gonna have problems. And I think that this will --

OREILLY: You think that they're gonna both be indicted?

MORRIS: -- become. I think this -- yeah, but I think, well, I can't speculate on whether -- what the prosecutor is going to do, but, yeah, I think that this scandal could go all the way up into the vice president's office. It could be very, very serious.

OREILLY: All right. But --

MORRIS: And it's gone from nothing 48 hours ago. Forty-eight hours ago, it was just hairless.

OREILLY: But it'll go back; it'll go back; it'll go back to nothing if there are no indictments.

MORRIS: Yeah, that's right.

OREILLY: So, if there are no indictments, it will go back to nothing. If there are, all hell breaks loose.