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From: LindyBill	8/14/2007 3:29:31 AM
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ABC Blames Karl Rove for Swift Boat Ads, All Nets Scold Him for Plame Leak NEWSBUSTERS By Brent Baker \| August 14, 2007 - 01:47 ET Reporting on the resignation of presidential political adviser Karl Rove, ABC's World News on Monday night absurdly blamed Karl Rove for the ads from Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and featured John Kerry's condemnation of Rove as all three broadcast network evening shows castigated Rove for his criticism of how Democrats want to coddle terrorists and highlighted his "leaking" of Valerie Plame's name. ABC's David Wright cited Rove's "political ju-jitzu" in "turning opponents' strengths against them." With a Swift Boat ad clip on screen, Wright described a "sustained attack on John Kerry's war record, an audacious move considering Bush's Vietnam War record was weak." Wright contended that Rove sometimes went "too far," such as when "he accused the Democrats of offering therapy and understanding to our attackers. 9/11 families asked him to stop." Rounding out Rove's offenses, Wright asserted that "he's been on the defensive over the leaking of a CIA agent's name as political payback against her husband, and for his part in the fired U.S. attorneys scandal." Following Wright's report, anchor Charles Gibson showcased how Kerry "said he orchestrated a political strategy 'that promised to unite Americans but instead left us more divided than [ever] before.'" On the CBS Evening News, which found the oldest video of Rove -- from 1972 -- Jim Axelrod stressed how "Rove survived five grand jury appearances during the Valerie Plame CIA leak case without being indicted. He's currently defying congressional subpoenas to testify about the fired U.S. attorneys." Axelrod maintained Rove "lost some of his luster last year when painting the Democrats weak on terror and the Iraq war backfired, and the GOP lost the House and Senate." NBC's Kelly O'Donnell recalled how "he enraged Democrats" by "accusing them of weakness after 9/11." newsbusters.org

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