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Yesterday Newsweek announced that lefty nutjob/blogger Markos Moulistas was joining their staff for the 2008 campaign season, to provide the kind of insightful commentary that he did when civilian contractors were killed in Iraq and he responded “screw them”

Moulistas wrote on his blog that there would be a right-wing counterpart, and they wouldn’t like it. This morning Newsweek announced who it would be… Let the conspiracy theories begin:

Newsweek has signed the president’s former deputy chief of staff as a commentator who will turn out several columns on the 2008 campaign through inauguration day. The move is not likely to prove popular among liberals who believe the mainstream media have been too soft on the Bush administration.

“We want to give readers a feel for what it’s like to be on the inside,” says Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham. “Our readers are sophisticated enough to know that what they get from Karl has to be judged in the context of who Karl is…Readers will have to decide if he’s simply an apologist.”

Newsweek (which is owned by The Washington Post Co.) will announce tomorrow that it is granting regular space to both Rove and Markos Moulitsas, the liberal firebrand who founded the Web site Daily Kos. “I’m fully prepared for both the right-wing and left-wing blogosphere to be outraged, which means we’re doing our job,” Meacham says.

Personally I’m not the biggest Rove fan in the world… after all, he was one of the geniuses behind the shamnesty bill, and judging by the exponential growth in spending under the Bush administration, I’d guess he is no fan of limited government.

That popping noise you hear is the sound of thousands of lefty’s heads exploding. Or it might be Michelle Malkin snoring…