Karl Rove is an informal McCain advisor

Thank you, George Stephanopoulos:

On ABC’s This Week today, host George Stephanopoulos introduced Karl Rove as “President Bush’s former deputy chief of staff and political strategist, an informal adviser to John McCain’s campaign.” But Rove immediately objected to this characterization, saying “I wouldn’t even go that far, informal adviser, no way.”

Stephanopoulos pressed Rove on his relationship:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, you pass on information to them, you give them advice.

ROVE: Chit-chat.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Chit-chat, ok. Well I think that that justifies, that that qualifies as informal, but let’s move on.

Think Progress has the video.

Last week Rove received a subpoena to testify before the House Judiciary Committee about his role in the alleged political prosecution of Alabama's former Republican Governor Don Siegelman.

Comments

[Eric Jaffa]

CNN, by contrast, doesn't disclose that "Alex Castellanos is advising John McCain."

[cfrost]

Turdblossom is highly radioactive and requires elaborate shielding but is essential fuel for the USS Straighttalk.

The latest New York Review of Books (Vol. 55, No. 10 · June 12, 2008) has an article: Who Is John McCain? about Sen. Straighttalk and his willingness to heave principles overboard as expediency requires.

[signsanssignified]

Interesting. TPM has a different segment from the same interview, focused on Rove’s role in the Seigelman prosecution (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/196894.php). (It must’ve been quite a discussion.)

Thank you very much, Majikthise, for bringing this one to our attention.

[Dabodius]

Hey, why not? Surely McCain too is "entitled to the math" -- and may it serve him as well as it did the Republican Congressional majority in 2006.

[Ole Blue]

Just wait, when the nominees are firm, rove will spew hate and venom. He will be McCains axe man.

[mudkitty]

Surprise, surprise.

[greensmile]

turns out McCain's economic adviser on bank bailout [Graham] had not resigned his job with UBS, a bank 37billion in the hole with bad subprime mortgages, before he wrote up McCain's policy on fixing banking. McCain, for all his bluster about being against lobbying and industry money influencing government is completely in bed with interests that are NOT your and my interests.