Time mag didn't hire KKKarl because they see him as unindicted co-conspirator in string of felonies

The part about KKKarl is page 1 of the column, and is filled with history and context. Pages 2 & 3 are excellent, too, full of tidbits about the primaries. LOL for the item about G.E. RUSSERT celebrating anniversary of MTP with clips of "42 white men."

There is a chart on p. 3 comparing how many white men appeared on the Sunday pundit shows.



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http://radaronline.com/features/2007/11/media_matters_karl_rove_hillary_clinton_campaignnewsweek_01.php

Full Court Press

Radar's media critic on Karl Rove and Hillary Clinton's campaign

by Charles Kaiser


Spiro Agnew's Revenge

.... For its part, Time magazine said nothing publicly about Rove's arrival at Newsweek, but a well-placed source told me that Bob Barnett (every Washington literati's favorite lawyer, including Bill Clinton) had traveled to the Time-Life building on Sixth Avenue to offer Rove's services before Newsweek snared them. Time's editors apparently felt the cost/benefit analysis wouldn't be in their favor if they embraced the man who has done more than anyone to keep the spirit of Joe McCarthy alive and well in American politics. (Read Joshua Green's definitive profile from the Atlantic in 2004.) "Time thought this wouldn't be like hiring George Stephanopoulos," my source explained. "They think Karl is essentially like an unindicted coconspirator in a whole string of felonies." ....

At the moment, the Daily Show is condemned to reruns for the length of the writers' strike, but last week there was a magnificent moment of serendipity. The same day Newsweek announced its new hire, the show rebroadcast a feature on Rove from the week after he left the White House.

"Washington was very shaken last week," Stewart intoned, "with news that Karl Rove, whose bountiful advisory teats had fed so many Beltway insiders for lo these six and a half years, was capping the spigot and moving on." Then Chris Wallace was shown offering up a list of "Karl Rove's greatest hits." Cut to Stewart:

"I just bought those: John McCain's black baby; Max Cleland, the one-limb pussy; The Queers are coming!; and, of course, Schiavo-a-go-go. No need to call now—your phones have already been tapped."



(from page 3 of the column: ) Meet the Press celebrated its 60th anniversary (again) and shattered all previous FCP records: sound bites from 42 white men in a single program! Tim Russert also assumed the carriage and the camera angles of his "I am the Pope, and you are not" posture.


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Charles Kaiser is the author of The Gay Metropolis and 1968 in America. He has been media editor for Newsweek, a member of the metro staff of the New York Times, and a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where he covered the press and book publishing. He has also written for Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times, New York, The Washington Post, The New York Observer, Rolling Stone, Details, Interview, The Advocate, Vogue, and Salon. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton. To find out more, visit charleskaiser.com. Research assistance: Thomas Rogers, Richard Vanderford


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What's a few felonies to the Congress of the United States?