Karl Rove is ‘Gross Egg That Has a Head Cold’

Peter Ogburn — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:55:10 +0000

If you haven’t watched Karl Rove attempt to throw a giant rotten peach at Fox News’ election coverage Tuesday night, do yourself a favor and watch it here, thanks to Politico.

Rove had predicted that Mitt Romney would handily win the presidential election and threw a toddler-sized tantrum when it started to look like he was wrong. Fox News called Ohio for Barack Obama and instead of commenting on the win, Rove stabbed Fox News in the back by saying that they were calling it prematurely. It. Was. Awkward. It got so weird that Megyn Kelly got up, left the set, and went back into the bowels of Fox News to talk to the Decision Desk, a crew of smart white men navigating the numbers.

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Howard Kurtz Calls BuzzFeed Story Clownish

Eddie Scarry — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:30:41 +0000

In a column for The Daily Beast, media reporter Howard Kurtz included a BuzzFeed report in a wrap-up of what he says has become a “clown campaign.”

“It’s the last two weeks of a presidential campaign,” Kurtz writes, “a time for suspense, for intrigue, for plot twists and…well, a whole lot of silliness.” He goes on to chronicle a few weird developments in campaign coverage over the past several days, including… continued…

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Karl Rove is ‘Gross Egg That Has a Head Cold’

Howard Kurtz Calls BuzzFeed Story Clownish