Rove: "45 Percent Of NPR Listeners Were Saddam Hussein"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Rove: '45 Percent Of NPR Listeners Were Saddam Hussein'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/27/karl-rove-npr-saddam-hussein_n_774367.html

GOP strategist Karl Rove and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean discussed the merits of various media outlets Monday night, unsurprisingly finding themselves on polar opposites of the debate.

Dean spoke positively about NPR, even in the wake of a recent controversy concerning the firing of correspondent Juan Williams over statements he made on Fox News, while Rove claimed that NPR's audience was like Saddam Hussein.

NPR "tells it as they see it, and they usually get it right," Dean said of the radio outlet at a University of Delaware forum, according to Politico's report. And Fox doesn't get it right because Fox is a particular offender at making news instead of reporting it."

Rove reportedly interrupted: "45 percent of NPR listeners were Saddam Hussein."

[Lint Head]

1. Rove is a sociopath.

[meegbear]

2. And the other 55 percent are fox news viewers

[Bitwit1234]

3. I guess the republicans stamped the cowered Democrats

to destroying ACORN an organization that got out votes for minority, now since they don't own NPR the way the own the rest of the media they are trying to destroy that also. I wonder if the Democrats will be "herded" into doing that again. What a bunch of wussies.

[KharmaTrain]

4. NPR is the new ACORN

The right wing needs boggiemen and NPR played right into this game. Not that NPR hasn't been there before. The ham-handed way Williams was fired (and I was and still am all in favor of that move) has given the hate machine yet another target to go at. And it's one on familiar ground..."the elite". Since most NPR stations are operated by universities and listened to by people with more than a 6th grade education, it's surely filled with "libruls" and other intelegensia. It's the time-worn tactic of demonizing those with education as being snobs and "socialists".

There's an ulterior motive at play here. Radio has been switching to a new ratings system. In the past, public and NPR stations were ignored in those ratings, but not with the "People Meter". Public stations have been showing farily strong in these new ratings and this doesn't set well with the powers that be that have bankrupted themselves and radio in general...they don't like the competition and would love to see NPR go back to playing boring classical music and lectures.

[AndrewP]

7. Very well said n/t

[Erose999]

9. Left of the dial FTW! I would never even turn on terrestrial radio if it wasn't for college radio

and NPR.

[maxrandb]

5. Paging Mara Liasson

Care to comment on this disparaging and despicable description of your listeners from a "regular" guest on Faux News????

[jaxx]

6. LOL Rove never stops.

I bet Dean had a hard time keeping a straight face over that one.

[Frustratedlady]

8. I listen to NPR all the time when I'm driving. Great interviews.

Besides, Garrison Keillor takes some great jabs at the Repugs, but they are difficult to catch. Actually, I don't see much of their programming that would be of interest or sit well with Tea Baggers OR Repugs.

[Ikonoklast]

10. Yes, because you have to be able to think critically in order to listen.

The Fascists among us need to be told how to think, and NPR for the most part presents the facts, and lets you determine what is correct.

[bemildred]

11. Is Rove going off the deep end? He is usually at least articulate. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Uhh...Did anyone serve Rove with a contempt of Congress citation at the debate?

What is Dean even doing on the same stage with rove? why is he giving rove credibility?

[Blue Owl]

13. The same guy who Donald Rumsfeld glad-handed?

n/t

[MilesColtrane]

14. Late stage syphilis has taken his mind.