"KKKarl Rove -- The Architect" - PBS Frontline, tonight

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Check your local listings, the times and stations below are for Boston. Note the live online discussion on Washingtonpost.com Wednesday.

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FRONTLINE
http://www.pbs.org/frontline /

- This Week: "Karl Rove -- The Architect" (60 min.),
Tuesday, Apr. 12, 2005 at 9.00 pm (WGBH 2) on PBS
- Inside FRONTLINE: "Past is prologue"
- Live Discussion: Chat with producer Michael Kirk this Wed. at 11 am ET

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This week, President Bush called Karl Rove "the architect" -- a way of thanking him for his role in the president's 2004 reelection. And we couldn't think of a better title for this week's FRONTLINE.

However, Karl Rove is much more than a political guru who guided Bush and Republicans to victory. With his appointment as deputy chief of staff in charge of coordinating domestic policy, economic policy, national security and homeland security, he is the single most powerful and ambitious policy adviser in the White House.

For this report, producer Michael Kirk set out to look for answers to these questions: Who is Karl Rove? How does he operate? How does he work with President Bush? And what does Rove's new position mean for America? You might say that Kirk found out that 'past is prologue.'

Rove, who has been called a genius in the nuts and bolts of organizing political campaigns, has developed a tough methodology for winning elections. And it may prove useful in the bigger battle over the president's ambition to change the political landscape of the country. Rove will be found at the center of the campaigns to change social security, the tort system and taxes. He will also be elivering on the cultural hot button issues that are so important to the conservative religious base of the Republican Party, a base Rove courted in order to win.

Producer Kirk follows the history of the way Rove has positioned his candidates before on controversial issues. And as you'll see in this report, which is a co-production with The Washington Post, for over three decades Rove has honed his skills at hardball politics, using wedge issues, surrogates and attack ads. But Rove's methods are only a part of the story. His tactics have been in service of a long-standing belief in the need to reshape the American political landscape. And in George Bush, Karl Rove has found the perfect candidate -- one with his own ambitions to leave a large legacy.

We hope that you will join us this Tuesday, Apr. 12, 2005 at 9.00 pm (WGBH 2) on PBS and then visit our web site where you will find more background on Rove's life and career, interviews with top Republican strategists and Washington Post reporters, and the opportunity to express your opinion about the program, at http://www.pbs.org/frontline/shows/architect /

Louis Wiley
Executive Editor

This program will be rebroadcast at the following time(s):
Wednesday, Apr. 13, 2005 at 2.00 am (WGBH 44)
Wednesday, Apr. 13, 2005 at 2.00 am (WGBH 2)
Wednesday, Apr. 13, 2005 at 4.00 am (WGBH 44)
Wednesday, Apr. 13, 2005 at 5.00 am (WGBH 2)
Wednesday, Apr. 13, 2005 at 2.00 pm (WGBH 44)
Wednesday, Apr. 13, 2005 at 10.00 pm (WGBH 44)
Friday, Apr. 15, 2005 at 4.00 pm (WGBH 44)
Sunday, Apr. 17, 2005 at 4.00 pm (WGBH 2)
Monday, Apr. 18, 2005 at 5.00 pm (WGBH 44)

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+ Live Online Discussion on Washingtonpost.com ...

Producer Michael Kirk will be online this Wednesday, April 13 at
11am ET, to discuss "Karl Rove -- The Architect"

For details, see:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36919-20...

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1. Starting now

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2. Watch for reruns, and remember the online discussion at 11AM.

Double-posted in "GD" & "POLITICS", there was a combination of FIVE responses, which included three reminders.

This was our chance to get our freinds and families and neighbors to watch how the rethug machine works, but like typical democrats, blew the opportunity.