Karl Rove makes Howard Kurtz wonder if television news networks are too partisan

Brett T. | 8:10 PM on November 11, 2012

So, it took Karl Rove’s on-air performance on Election Day to inspire Newsweek’s Howard Kurtz to ask if television news networks should “drop partisans” from their lineups? Not only does Kurtz write for Newsweek — the magazine this week featuring President Obama dressed as Napoleon on its cover — he also hosts CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” so we assume he owns a TV and gets CNN and some of those other networks.

Twitter tries to clue him in to what’s been going on in network newsrooms for the past, oh, 50 years.

@HowardKurtz You mean like @GStephanopoulos @JoeTrippi I mean, really. They're still entrenched Democrat operatives. Please.

— Melissa Mackenzie (@MelissaTweets) November 11, 2012

@HowardKurtz You mean like James Carville on CNN?

— Randy Johnson (@RandyJohnsonLA) November 11, 2012

@HowardKurtz how about George Stephaneous and Joe Trippi?

— lindapetrou (@lindapetrou) November 11, 2012

@HowardKurtz Yes, party operatives need to go. CNN should ditch Begala, Castellanos et.al. They're savvy, but they're shills.

— Edward St. Clair (@EdwardAloysius) November 11, 2012

@HowardKurtz WTF? Has Matthews or O'Donnell or Bashir or others at most biased network ever gone 2 far? You just hate that Fox rules.

— Depoguy (@depoguy) November 11, 2012

@HowardKurtz If all networks dropped partisans, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC would all go out of business.

— Wes Stephens (@RockyTop_VA) November 11, 2012