Studying Karl Rove

It's really interesting to read about this man. The assumptions he makes about traditional journalists are so condescending. He assumes journalists can be easily manipulated and fed completely erroneous information and that they would pass it on without fact checking it for accuracy. That's not the way journalists I know work. I wonder what journalists would risk their reputations to be his errand boy. What's the payoff? Is it literally just that -- a payoff? Got to do some more reading about this man.