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UPDATED: Tea Party Group Claims Email Featuring Karl Rove Dressed As Nazi Was An Accident

Feb. 19, 2013 3:59pm Becket Adams

Tea Party Patriots Send Mass Email Featuring Image of Karl Rove Dressed as SS Officer

Karl Rove looking an awful lot like SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler.

The Tea Party Patriots, a limited-government advocacy group, sent a mass email Tuesday that included an image of Republican strategist Karl Rove dressed as a Nazi SS officer.

And now the group says it was all a terrible mistake.

“We did not know about or approve a manufactured image added to a recent email from the Tea Party Patriots. It was added by an outside vendor. The image was inappropriate and we have ordered the vendor to immediately cease further use of the image,” co-founder Jenny Beth Martin said in a statement.

The group said it had requested a specific image of Rove thumbing his nose, but that the third party vendor mistakenly used the Nazi image from an online slideshow:

Washington Examiner

“Wipe the Smirk Off Karl Rove’s Face,” reads the subject line of the original email.

“Karl Rove believes he can raise hundreds of millions of dollars, crush the Tea Party movement and protect the big-government status quo in Washington from millions of freedom loving Americans,” the email adds. “Well, he’s wrong.”

The email vendor, Active Engagement, said it takes full responsibility for the mistake.

“It was a mistake that we made. It was not a mistake that went through Tea Party Patriots,” J.D. Norman, a partner at Active Engagement, told POLITCO, adding that his firm handles “tens of millions of emails over the course of a month or so for each independent client.”

“Obviously, it was the worst picture that could have been mistakenly put in that email. Beyond that it’s just a human error,” he adds. “We’re trying to look into how it happened to prevent it in the future.”

Here is the official statement from the Tea Party Patriots:

Earlier today, an e-mail under the Tea Party Patriots banner included a photo-shopped image of Karl Rove in a Nazi uniform. This image was not approved by Tea Party Patriots, and the e-mail approved by Tea Party Patriots did not include the image.

Tea Party Patriots has expressed an apology to Mr. Rove for this unacceptable imagery, and is implementing stricter controls to ensure such an error does not happen again.

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We apologize to Mr. Rove. While we may have strong disagreements with Mr. Rove on the future of conservatism, we want to be clear this imagery is absolutely unacceptable and are working to ensure this type of mistake doesn’t happen again.

And here’s the statement from Active Engagement:

An email that was sent earlier today under the banner of Tea Party Patriots included an offensive image of Karl Rove.

The image was obviously a photo shopped image of Mr. Rove, a well-known political figure. The image was selected in error from an extensive group of images available publicly online and was adjacent to the image that Tea Party Patriots approved for use.

The email that included the image was not approved by Tea Party Patriots. Active Engagement, L.L.C. takes full responsibility for this error and is attempting to contact everyone who received the image to explain the error. More importantly, Active Engagement, L.L.C. apologizes to Mr. Rove for this mistake. Active Engagement, L.L.C. does not believe there is any place in political discourse for images such as these.

UPDATE — In a brief statement to The Daily Caller, Karl Rove responded to the TPP’s apology: “Apology accepted. Now let’s all get back to work building conservative Republican majorities and stop President Obama’s agenda.”

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Comments (91)

jessieH
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:03am
Not really very bright to give the left ammo to fight you with. Stick with the truth & leave crap like this for the socialists.

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luxlife
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:50am
Accident? Dubious at best.

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Verceofreason
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:07am
Karl is a stank ho. A money grubbing stank ho.
He used the Tea Party when it was convenient for him and now it;s not.

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MisterSarcastic
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:57pm
Karl, Dahling. You rook maavarous.

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peteto1
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:27pm
Considered myself a Tea Party member in 2010, but they’ve gone “off the rails” in the last year or so. I’m not a big fan of Rove or his new organization, but I now consider myself a conservative Independent. When the Republican Party gets it’s act together (i.e.- becomes a unifier vs. a divider), I’ll consider coming back……

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VetMike
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:45pm
We don’t need stuff like this. The Left will use it to smear anyone on the Right. Yes, Liberals have compared Conservatives to Hitler, Stalin and the Devil’s spawn. No-one reports that but this will get universal coverage. Please be more careful.

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oldsoldier10
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:23pm
picture is right on! carl rove and dick morris can go to hell! they ruined the 2012 election may they rot in hell with the other coward traitor bastards! be a conservative or be nothing!

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Patriot Z
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:13pm
why? the tea party is loosing me, simply because the fact that they cannot accept the simple fact that they need to be rude to win. rove IS acting like a nazi. The TP needs to quit being a bunch of p*s*i*es and start fighting. the tea party was BNOT a bunch of old farts holding signs it was people getting really pissed and causing damage. if the tp cant get with the program then they are as wothless as the statists they pretend to fight

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SidneyDave
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 7:57pm
The Republicans in their search for the perfect candidate, will destroy everyone in the party and give Hillery the White house in 2016. If they have any hope of retaking the White house they had better work on the things they can agree on instead of things they disagree on. Rove and Morris were responsible for Obama’s re-election when they announced the Obama would loose by a landslide and many Republican voters stayed home.

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Gladileftcalifornia
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 7:27pm
A clown costume would have been more appropriate.

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barber2
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:41pm
BIG SECRET to conservatives : Unite or die . And America with you.

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- neverending
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:22pm
  You are so exaclty right but doubt it will ever sink in.
  
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barber2
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:39pm
Code RED TROLL ALERT : The combination of Karl Rove and the photo of a Nazi has brought out all of the Trolls ! Those who post Far Left and those who post Far Far Anarchy Left ! All part of the ” angry / out-sider / anti-American / OWS ” Obama Crowd.

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dont_drive_slow_in_the_left_lane_obliviot
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:02pm
well they’re not far off.

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luxlife
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:56pm
Add your comments

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Magyar
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:54pm
Ya know, I don’t give a sh# t if it was by mistake or not. Karl Rove has proven himself to be a lying political WHORE who has little concern for WE THE PEOPLE. It is and always will be about HIS power and HIS position.

Why FOX renewed his contract is a mystery….

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- luxlife
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:25am
  Nah- root cause is WE THE PEOPLE HAVE little concern for WE THE PEOPLE. Rove is just an exponent.
  
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:42pm
Obama as Lenin and Rove as Himmler. Makes sense.

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- Magyar
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:55pm
  Yea, you got that right—Good call!
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:32pm
Did Hitler make speeches about giving unlimited funding to his scientists for research?

When I think of Nazis, I think about nationalism and the role of the media, scientific community, and a dictator, all wrapped up into one, Mr. Rove just does not fit the bill?

Can you think of anyone asking for unlimited funding of their scientists, even if it meant violating the civil rights of others?

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Advection
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:32pm
Rove recently launched a war against the Tea Party, and anyone else who criticizes the Republican elites. Therefore, I expect to see more of this sort of thing. He asked for it, and they’re gonna give it to him.

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coldarkstare
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:25pm
rove is a sack of crap,another reason i will never vote republican again.

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54smom
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:21pm
Its working the GOP is split it doesn’t matter who did it. We have shot ourselves in the foot. Again. If you like what you are seeing now vote 3rd party or better yet those who didn’t vote, do it again. It is going to be even better when the dems take over everything. You had better vote for the strongest candidate or it is over. And all of you big talkers will be crying, because you will have no rights and no constitution to help you out.

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moreteaplease
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:13pm
The Third Archon
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:33pm

Oh, but you’re PERFECTLY okay with showing up to rallies with pictures of Obama with a Hitler-mustache. Yeah, that’s reasonable…
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Hey, if the mustache fits….

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truthnstuff
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:10pm
Why the hell apologize! If you didn’t do it say you wish you had, because that is the way he is acting. Stop the PC.

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semby
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:01pm
This is disgraceful.
Jenny Beth Martin – your 15 minutes is up; you are pathetic.

Rove is not the enemy; Obama, Reid and Pelosi are!
Stop this nonsense before it’s too late.

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CWPrequired
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:55pm
Kinda like the white/black house releasing immigration info….”accidentally”.

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Sharon Rose
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:44pm
If the shoe fits, wear it!

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