Newsweek Adds To Celebrity Blogger Team

New to the blogging farm at Newsweek: Karl Rove, 56, veteran political operative, joins Markous Moulitsas, 36. (tip)

Newsweek, of course, says it's doing this in the spirit of "balance." As the commentary from The Nation notes, there is little parity in the backgrounds of the two men or in their approach to "politics." Kos is publicly very libertarian, has called the CIA (he almost went to work there) a liberal institution and is a Republican-turned-Democrat. His activism began in 2002. Rove is a life-long Republican operative whose activism began in college.