Why Rove shouldn't be 'throwing any stones' at Obama

David Edwards Thursday night, MSNBC's David Shuster pointed out the hypocrisy of Karl Rove's latest Wall Street Journal column. Rove suggested that President Obama was misusing the power of his office. "Team Obama wants to remind its adversaries it has plenty of power, and it does. The question is whether the White House will wield it responsibly," wrote Rove. Shuster accused Rove of having a double standard. "Karl Rove is concerned about wielding power irresponsibly? Karl, you mean like outing a CIA agent?" asked Shuster. "That‘s what you were involved in." Shuster added, "Joe Wilson pointed out that the White House misled the American people in the run-up to the Iraq war. And you, Vice President Cheney, and Scooter Libby felt the need to smear Wilson. And in so doing, you helped blow the cover on Wilson‘s CIA operative wife." "Karl, it must be so frustrating to be reduced to writing columns and pontificating on Fox News," Shuster mocked. "Nonetheless, given your actions over the years, when you whine about the Obama White House possibly playing politics, that‘s hypocrisy. And it‘s wrong." Also on MSNBC Thursday, while guest hosting Keith Olbermann's Countdown, Shuster asked if there were "any term for the type of politics Mr. Rove practices." "Shameful maybe," The Nation's Chris Hayes said. "There was an amazing profile of Rove by Josh Green in The Atlantic years ago, about the races he ran down in Alabama, when he got his start running these judicial races. The dirty stuff they did, calling up—going to homeless people and giving them flyers to show up at an opponent‘s campaign office, saying there is free food. Running these smears about someone being a child molester." Green added, "This was the kind of stuff that Rove was associated with and involved with down in Alabama. He is really, really not anyone to be throwing any stones." This video is from MSNBC's 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., broadcast Apr. 2, 2009.

Download video via RawReplay.com This video is from MSNBC's Countown, broadcast Apr. 2, 2009.