In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, former Bush adviser Karl Rove advises President Obama to stay off television because "the president's constant chattering runs the risk of making him boring and stale. His magic dissipates as he becomes less interesting."
However, as former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer writes in his new memoir, Speech-less, when Rove was in the White House he "was of the belief that the president needed to be out speaking every day no matter what the subject."
Think Progress pulls the key quote: "Sometimes Bush would be at the podium four separate times in twenty-four hours, talking about the war in Iraq, the Olympics, the economy, or the birth of Thomas Jefferson. And the next day there might be another speech on Iraq, one more on the economy and maybe a salute to Irish Americans. This obviously made it hard to broadcast a coherent message."
Rove's oped:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574430883099005144.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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