Karl Rove: Michelle Obama Deserves FOX News’ Attacks On Her

With all that’s going on in the world, Hannity & Colmes again last night (8/11/08) chose as its top story another mention of FOX News by Barack Obama, this time with regard to FNC’s characterization of his wife, Michelle. The only guest for this segment was Republican operative and informal McCain advisor, Karl Rove, once again introduced merely as “FOX News contributor.” Instead of a balanced look at Obama's complaint, Rove told Sean Hannity that Michelle Obama made “inappropriate comments” and that if Barack Obama doesn’t like the reporting, he should have his wife stop making them. Rove also defended John McCain’s use of a lobbyist for Georgia as his advisor in the Russia/Georgia conflict with the dubious argument that he worked in a bi-partisan fashion for NATO expansion. With video.

In an interview in Marie Claire, Obama responded to a question asking if his wife is misunderstood.

BO: Not by people who've been paying attention. I think that if you've been watching Fox News then probably she's misunderstood, because I do think there's been a fairly systematic attempt by the conservative press to paint her in a completely false way. They latched onto the one gaffe or statement she made about being proud of her country for the first time, which, as Laura Bush acknowledged, was not something that Michelle had meant — that she had not been proud of her country before. And her very legitimate criticisms of how families are being treated and the difficulty for so many women of balancing family and work was painted as her being this caricature of an angry person. Anybody who knows her well knows she's got the best sense of humor of anyone you'd ever want to meet. She's the most quintessentially American person I know.

FOX News left out the part in which Obama explained just how he thought his wife had been falsely portrayed. With the choice of Rove as the lone guest for the segment, it was a pretty safe bet that what Obama had claimed was a false portrayal would be reiterated to the "fair and balanced" network's audience rather than balanced with a rebuttal.

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He probably wouldn't think she deserves it.

Wives are like any other commodity-consumable, replaceable, dime a dozen.

sounds like a B movie title, doesn't it?

But I don't like the shit being slung at Michelle, either. But if you get in the game, you've got to be able to take some hits.

Michelle will do fine. She did a great job in Norfolk.

Again, like BHO, she's not made of glass. She can take it.

Campaigns are rough. They know that.

If he ever comes to WA state I am so going to attempt a citizen's arrest.

PLEASE, do arrest him.

...Rove is able to go out in public without having someone just beat the holy living sh*t out of him.

who aren't interested in truth. F*ck him.

from him.