Remember Karl Rove, that reclusive genius of the Bush administration reputed to wield the power of Iago, Rasputin and Cardinal Richelieu rolled into one? Well, he's come out of hiding to set up shop as a Newsweek scribe and a Fox News commentator.
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With the collapse of the permanent Republican majority he tried to engineer, you might have thought Rove's era of influence is over. But the truth is, we're still living in Karl Rove's world. And lately, he has become fixated on the concept of political authenticity. In his maiden column for Newsweek, he wrote that "the American people want their president to be authentic." In the Wall Street Journal, ...