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No. 2 in Iowa, Huckabee Now on Critics' Radar
Now that former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has risen to No. 2 in the Iowa polls, he has been hearing much tougher questions from his critics.
(By Matthew Putney -- Waterloo Courier Via Associated Press)
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Rove Goes Over to Other Side: the Press
Less than three months after leaving the Bush White House, Karl Rove is becoming a member of a community not all that popular with his ex-colleagues: the media.
Newsweek has signed the president's former deputy chief of staff as a commentator who will turn out several columns on the 2008 campaign, among other topics, through inauguration day. The move is not likely to prove popular among liberals who believe the mainstream media have been too soft on the Bush administration.
"We want to give readers a feel for what it's like to be on the inside," said Jon Meacham, the editor of Newsweek. "Our readers are sophisticated enough to know that what they get from Karl has to be judged in the context of who Karl is . . . Readers will have to decide if he's simply an apologist."
Newsweek (owned by The Washington Post Co.) is granting regular space to Rove and Markos Moulitsas Z¿niga, the liberal firebrand who founded the Web site Daily Kos.
Rove, a longtime confidant of Bush, rarely granted on-the-record interviews during his 6 1/2 years in the White House, and he wasn't shy about criticizing the press. In a speech last year, Rove said that journalists often derided political professionals, perhaps because "they want to draw attention away from the corrosive role their coverage has played focusing attention on process and not substance."
Meacham said he contacted Rove the day he announced his resignation. He said that Newsweek will insist on disclosing any fundraising or partisan activity on the part of Rove and Moulitsas.
"Love him or hate him, Karl Rove has been at the center of the American political story for the last few years," Meacham said.
-- Howard Kurtz
