Former Rove aide Sara Taylor becomes MSNBC pundit

from Think Progress:


Former Rove aide Sara Taylor becomes MSNBC pundit.»

Today, MSNBC brought on former White House political director Sara Taylor to talk about how right-wing groups plan to attack Sen. Barak Obama (D-IL) over his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Taylor was a top aide to Karl Rove and intimately involved in both the U.S. Attorney scandal and the politicization of federal agencies. The White House had originally blocked her from testifying to Congress, which had issued a subpoena for her appearance.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/20/former-rove-aide-sara-taylor-becomes-msnbc-pundit/

The media is seeded with these ideologues. Gah!!!!!!!

Better donate some $$ to mediamatters, pals.

Ptoooey !

just like all the rest, follow the money and to hell with principles.

grassroots turning progressive, I guess they think they have to stoke the airways with even more reich wing idiots. It's really amusing how they keep telling us that they are only giving us what we "demand" by our viewership habits.

Jesus.... this country has NO standards at all.... if there are they are low, extremely low and pathetic.

Puhleaze. I look to the British and Canadian press with eyes of absolute jealousy.

its deliberately lying to the public with no accountability. I really do love how the right wing claims their "lies" are nothing more than a "different perspective". Perspectives are built upon facts, not lies.

Will this nightmare ever end?

That means weaklings like Reid and Pelosi need to go.

These people see themselves as ABOVE the law. And above the wishes of the citizens of this country. Anyone with more than 6 years in EITHER area need to GO. Clean frigging HOUSE.

the dumbing down of Americans continue. Sadly.

.... What time is American Idol on?

:sarcasm:

Sara Taylor's (and Abramoff's) assistant Susan B. Ralston also resigned.

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Senior Rove aide leaves White House.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/28/another-top-aide-leaves-white-house

White House political director and top Karl Rove aide Sara Taylor, “who has been with George W. Bush from the outset of his first presidential campaign, is the latest staff member to leave the president’s employ.

Taylor cleared out her office early last week.......

Taylor is reportedly intimately involved in the U.S. Attorney scandal. According to Kyle Sampson, Taylor was directly promoting efforts to appoint attorneys without Senate confirmation. The House and Senate Judiciary Committees have approved subpoenas for her testimony. ......

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Another Top Bush Aide cleared out her office
Michael A. Fletcher - May 28, 2007; Page A15 - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/27/AR2007052700896.html

...... more top aides are headed out to the private sector. Sara M. Taylor, the White House political director and microtargeting guru who has been with George W. Bush from the outset of his first presidential campaign, is the latest staff member to leave the president's employ.

Taylor, 32, was one of the first people put on the payroll of the Bush campaign, trekking through snowy Washington to interview with Karl Rove and Bush, who was then governor of Texas. Taylor worked on the 2000 campaign, and later became a political aide in the White House. ....

Taylor cleared out her office early last week. She plans to take her skills to the private sector, where the pay will no doubt be better than the $137,000 she earned in 2006 as a deputy assistant to the president. ..............

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Top Rove aide, implicated in Attorneys firings, clears out office
Michael Roston - May 28, 2007 - http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Top_Rove_aide_implicated_in_Attorneys_0528.html

A top aide to White House political adviser Karl Rove has 'cleared out her office,' according to a report in Monday's Washington Post. Sara Taylor, Rove's top lieutenant, has seen her name brought up in recent months in Congressional hearings relating to the firing of 8 US Attorneys.

"Taylor, 32, was one of the first people put on the payroll of the Bush campaign," writes Michael Fletcher in the new 'At the White House' column. "Taylor cleared out her office early last week. She plans to take her skills to the private sector."

Taylor is described by Fletcher as skilled in 'microtargeting,' the practice of identifying voting constituencies at their most elemental levels. She has also come up as a potential target for a subpoena from the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, as RAW STORY has earlier reported.

The White House political strategist was first identified as playing a role in the removal of US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas H.E. 'Bud' Cummins during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with D. Kyle Sampson, the former Chief of Staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

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Importantly, regarding Griffin and voter caging and voter purging, is this bit in the WA Post story, "... Taylor was among those who helped use sophisticated analysis of consumer data to enable the Bush campaign to target potential voters..." I have to ask, targeted for what?

LOTS MORE: (from) EXIT RIGHT. Sara Taylor, WH political director, Rove Aide RESIGNS? "subpoenas for her testimony"
May-28-07 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x990202

I can't wait to see her handcuffed and led off set sometime in 09!

Boy howdy, that will send the right message.

sickening, more poison on the media, American media is so disgusting.

another reason never to watch cable news

bbc america news is the only intelligent news service in america...

Our TV "news" is worse than a bad joke.

positively... Aryan.

White House says it held employee briefings on GOP races
By Deb Riechmann, AP | April 27, 2007 - http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/04/27/white_house_says_it_held_employee_briefings_on_gop_races/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+National+News


WASHINGTON -- The White House acknowledged yesterday it has conducted about 20 briefings for federal employees on the election prospects of Republican candidates -- the sort of meetings that have led to an investigation into administration political activity.

An independent unit, the US Office of Special Counsel, began an investigation this week into a presentation by Bush aide J. Scott Jennings to political appointees at the General Services Administration. At issue is whether the January session violated the federal Hatch Act, which bars federal employees from engaging in political activities with government resources or on government time.........

White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said briefings were also held at other federal agencies, for a total of about 20 -- most in 2006 and a couple in 2007. They were conducted by White House political director Sara Taylor or Jennings, her deputy. .....

Others were held in previous years as well, but Stanzel said the White House had not kept a count.

Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino said that no laws were broken and that the White House counsel's office knew of the effort. "There is no prohibition under the Hatch Act of allowing political appointees to talk to other political appointees about the political landscape in which they are trying to advance the president's agenda," Perino said.....

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Right on Dana, implicate the White House lawyers too!

Gotta love the brass ones on these people. Political employees can talk politics "to advance the president's agenda" which, of course, is political! Hello, it is called "government service" for a reason, no matter if you got there for being a member of "the party." Do they even realize how like the Communist Party back in the USSR this is?

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From: EXIT RIGHT. Sara Taylor, WH political director, Rove Aide RESIGNS? "subpoenas for her testimony"
May-28-07 - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x990202#991978

Huffington Post "Sara Taylor" page WAS cached on Google, loaded with links:
FROM: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x990202#991893

Did Sara Taylor Appoint Tim Griffin USA on December 15, 2006?
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/05/did_sara_taylor.html

White House says it held employee briefings on GOP races
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/04/27/white_house_says_it_held_employee_briefings_on_gop_races?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+National+News
"... for a total of about 20 -- most in 2006 and a couple in 2007. They were conducted by White House political director Sara Taylor or Jennings, her deputy. It had been known that other briefings were held, but not how many. Others were held ..."

Former Rove aide Sara Taylor becomes MSNBC pundit., March 20, 2008



Sara Taylor



Sara has quite a checkered past.


BREAKING: Rove Aide Resigns (Sara Taylor), March 30, 2007


EXCLUSIVE: Key Rove aide could face subpoena and is expected to resign soon, sources say..., March 30, 2007


Sara Taylor dispatched to Florida Recount 2000 to create pinpoint tracking system for ballots, July 11, 2007


All the president's women.... are enablers. (Pix heavy), July 11, 2007


And here's a thread about one of Sara Taylor's best buds:

Subpoena SUSAN B. RALSTON. She holds the key to WH e-mail systems, election night '04 and Abramoff., March 26, 2007

Look at those eyes. She looks like a meth addict.

I guess having a 10 to 1 ratio of right wing spinners wasn't enough for MSNBC, so here we'll get a few more to lie and smear their way through November. Disgusting.

What the heck is happening to MSNBC? They're going from bad to worse by the day.

Especially faux news.. Keith Olbermann, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow, and Dan Abrams more than make up for this lady. Plus, it seems like MSNBC is poised to become the progressive news network if and when Obama is elected President. You know, I don't really care about fair and balanced news... not when the other side is so crazy and terror-mongering.

If they put Rachel across from her I might watch, otherwise the channel gets changed.

As it is, I only watch Countdown on MSNBC but lately I have to switch channels if Pat Buchanan shows up.

oh, that's right. They don't prosecute Republicans in this country.

Doesn't CNN know that having worked for BushCo on one's resumé is a liability and not an asset?

extensive plastic surgery.