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Fox News: 'Rove Was Wrong'

OH, SNAP!

Network chief calls out his snafu.

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Sorry, Karl, but you were dead wrong. That's what Fox News chief Roger Ailes said Thursday, noting Rove's error in refusing to accept that President Obama had won Ohio on election night. Rove had criticized Fox for calling the state prematurely for Obama, but Ailes made his decision-desk team go on the air and stick by their call. "As it turned out Rove was wrong," Ailes told TVNewser. "He backed down. Our guys were right."

Read it at Talking Points Memo