{"id":183583,"date":"2013-01-18T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/18\/no-accountability-for-the-right-wing\/"},"modified":"2013-01-18T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T03:03:00","slug":"no-accountability-for-the-right-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/18\/no-accountability-for-the-right-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"No Accountability for the Right Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Rove just got a <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/four-more-years-of-rove-on-fox-what-to-expect-h\/192312\">4 year contract extension from Fox News<\/a>, despite his meltdown on election night 2012:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Politico reports that Fox News has extended Karl Rove&#8217;s contract through 2016. If the past is any indication, you can expect the network to continue to be used as a fundraising and publicity vehicle for Rove-affiliated outside groups, Republican Party propaganda masked as news analysis, and repeated failure to disclose Rove&#8217;sentangled interests.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rove, the so-called &#8220;architect&#8221; of President Bush&#8217;s election wins, was hired as a Fox contributor in 2008.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">During his appearances, Fox has frequently failed to inform its viewers that Rove is still an active participant in Republican Party politics &#8212; specifically the creation and operation of American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, his PAC and non-profit, respectively, that spent millions opposing Democrats in the 2010 and 2012 elections.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He called everything wrong, he pissed away millions of dollars given him by right-wing rich chumps, and he \u2026\u2026\u2026 gets his paid gig at Fox extended by 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>I wish that I had a job where I could f%$# up this badly, and still get my lucrative contract renewed. <\/p>\n<p>Say what you will about the VWRC (<b>V<\/b>ast <b>R<\/b>ight <b>W<\/b>ing <b>C<\/b>onspiracy), but their pay and benefits are pretty damn good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Rove just got a 4 year contract extension from Fox News, despite his meltdown on election night 2012: Politico reports that Fox News has extended Karl Rove&#8217;s contract through 2016. If the past is any indication, you can expect the network to continue to be used as a fundraising and publicity vehicle for Rove-affiliated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,975,1064,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-employment","category-media","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}