NY Times Leaning On Fox To Reexamine Its Relationship With Karl Rove | Mediaite

NY Times Leaning On Fox To Reexamine Its Relationship With Karl Rove | Mediaite:

'via Blog this'The Times quotes an FNC executive who thought it would be informative to let Rove, who is intimately familiar with the consequences of an early state call in a presidential election, explain why he thought calling the Buckeye State for Obama was premature:

“The first thing that came to my mind, the first thing burned in everyone’s mind, is Florida 2000,” said Michael Clemente, the Fox News executive vice president for news. “And the minute you hear, ‘Hold the phone,’ you sort of get that oh-my-goodness feeling.”

So Mr. Clemente, who was one floor up in the control room, decided with his team of producers to allow Mr. Rove to say on television what he was finding and hearing from the Romney campaign: that the numbers coming out of Ohio were not necessarily adding up to an Obama victory.

The Times piece notes that the “more polished” Fox reporter Chris Stirewalt joined Megyn Kellyshortly after Rove objected to their Ohio call to explain why their judgment was not only appropriate but would not be reversed.