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HI MY DAd has had a subscirption with you for years and now somehow he's getting 2 .is there anyway to combine them into 1 long time subscirption please the numbers are#nwm0258124700/8#71 07nov11 na f 424944. num ber 2 is#nwm0288976764/0#71 02may11 n4 r 424943 help please thankyou jean jwaibel354centurytel.net please let me know so i can tell him its ok he is 89 and really enjoys your magazine thanks again for your help in this matter jean

I too would not have renewed had I known Karl Rove would be a contributor. I'm holding an offer to add a year to my subscription. No way, unless Newsweek changes its mind about Rove.

why did you invite karl rove to write for newsweek? everything he has to say is a dirty lie. he helped "the bush crime family" in their coup to destroy the united states. SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they can torture me, but they can't stop me from telling the truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to agree with the others. I would not have renewed my subscription if I knew Rove was on board and I will likely not renew it in the future. I think using Stephanopoulos as an example of a similarly controversial figure is ridiculous. It's a whole different sort of controversary when it includes possible indictments and acts of treason. I respect Newsweek and its desire to offer a spectrum of thought, George Will comes to mind. However, your providing Rove with a platform legitimizes his actions and crosses a line that is unacceptable. Shame on you Newsweek for your lack of good judgement.

I just renewed my subscription to Newsweek - BEFORE I knew about the decision to bring Rove on board. I would never have chosen to continue my subscription had I known beforehand. Please reconsider using his rhetoric and lies in your magazine unless you want to become a tabloid rather than a news source. Rove should never be given a platform to spread his lies and misinformation. His absurd personal attacks always steer the conversation away from the actual issues at hand. For instance, ask him about the growing deficit and he'll reply that the questioner is unChristian. As him about Iraq, he'll claim you are unpatriotic. Ask him about health care and he'll call Democrats socialists instead of answering the question. PLEASE reconsider your decision so that I won't have to reconsider my subscription.
Millie Duke
1525 Bishop Rd
Middleton, TN 38052

Add me to the long list. I just cancelled my subscription. Mr. Rove is a liar and should be convicted of treason, not given a forum to spread more lies. Newsweek and Mr. Meacham should be ashamed of themselves.

Mr Meacham, HAVE YOU NO DECENCY SIR? I just sent the following comment to the Subscription Department as I canceled my subscription: I have subscribed to Newsweek for over 40 years, and have enjoyed it immensely. However, hiring Karl Rove, the "Architect" of an immoral, arrogant, incompetent, and divisive Administration which chooses to subordinate individual rights at home and conduct war-mongering abroad is something I will not condone.
Since we just renewed on 3 December for another year, please refund my full subscription price.

Add me to the list of your subscribers who will not be resubscribing due to your decision to give Rove a platform. No need to add to the comments about Rove, but I will say this is the first time I've felt compelled to cancel a subscription because of editorial policy. Just unbelievable!

This year I decided to send the gift of a Newsweek subscription to friends. They'll think I am out of my mind when they get the next issue with the meanderings of the devil incarnate. I am so embarrassed.

We will NOT be renewing our subscription to Newsweek...............yep, you guessed it.........because of giving a platform to creepy Rove. Bad move, Newsweek!

we are joining the list of people who will no longer be renewing our subscription to Newsweek.......you guessed it....because of the platform for creepy Rove.

When I first heard about Newsweek hiring Karl Rove, I thought there had to be some mistake. After all, the man only recently left his job at the White House, and there are some active congressional investigations involving him; Newsweek should still be reporting on those investigations. Then I remembered that Newsweek is owned by the Washington Post Company, and last year the Washington Post hired Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson to write for the editorial page only a few months after he left the administration. Thus do standards fall. I think it's poor journalistic practice for a publication to so quickly hire someone whose actions were the subject of dozens, if not hundreds, of news stories in its pages--and whose actions will likely be further investigated and reported on in the near future. I hope Newsweek will reconsider its decision. If not, the page containing Rove's column will fit nicely in the bottom of my birdcage.

Karl Rove!?!! You're kidding, right? The greatest Machiavelli this country has ever seen -- a master manipulator of the media, and you're providing him a forum for further self aggrandizing and the opportunity for more revisionist history!!! You are kidding, right?

Karl Rove? Are you kidding me? The greatest Machiavelli our country has ever seen -- and a master manipulator of the media, and you're providing him with a forum so that he can rewrite history to self aggrandize. Really, you're kidding, right?

A long-time subscriber to Newsweek over all the other weekly newsmagazines because of its fairness, I am appalled that you chose to sign on Karl Rove as an "occasional contributor". Rove has nothing to contribute that a decent person would want to read. And putting Moulitsas on as a deodorant doesn't begin to hide the smell. I don't want to cancel my subscription of many years, so please tell us you have changed your mind.

Thanks for having Mr. Rove so we can have a differente view. I admire your mind and hope never fail you. But when you mention "The first book I can remember holding???holding, not reading???was a copy of "Treasure Island," which had been inscribed to me by an overly enthusiastic grandfather on the occasion of my turning a month old" that at the age of 30 days you remember the book you were holding in your hand is a little bit odd, at least you did not say that you read it in your first 60 to 90 days of age.

Please reconsider your decision to allow Karl Rove to appear in Newsweek as a guest commentator. I appreciate reading all sides of the issues, but this man is either the most poker-faced liar I have ever seen or is completely insane. I cancelled my Time subscription after they made George Bush the person of the year a few years back and have really enjoyed my subscription to Newsweek since then. Please reconsider.

This man maliciously exposed the identity of a CIA agent for political gain and in retaliation for someone not towing the Bush administration's line. And now you want to use this traitor to sell magazines. You can't be serious. I've already cancelled my subscription. Shame on you.

What in the heck in wrong with Newsweek? Karl Rove? weren't A. Coulter or R. Limbaugh available? Did you see todays article on Rove's revisionist history on the run-up to the Iraq/Bush war? Can't you get a conservative with a modicum of objectivity, like David Brooks or even that clown R. Novack? Goodby Newsweek, hello Times. GET RID OF THAT SCUM-BAG!!