Karl Rove: ‘The Right Number of Tweets for a White House Chief of Staff Is Zero’

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ROVE: "I think the right number of tweets from a Chief of Staff is zero. Look, I was in the White House for seven years as a senior adviser and then deputy White House chief of staff for three years. I saw two very good men, Andy Card and Josh Bolten, serve as chiefs of staff to a president of the United States. That is a demanding job. That is a job that requires your full attention to the things at hand from the earliest moment in the morning to the latest moment at night, and neither one of those men and no chief of staff that I’m aware of would have enough time to do 100 tweets in a year, let alone in a week. Is that the responsibility of the Chief of Staff, to be the tweeter-in-chief? I think that’s better left to the communicators. Ron Klain has a big job to do, and every moment he spends trying to determine should I retweet that, let me check my Twitter feed, is there anything interesting that's come across in the last hour that I ought to retweet out, is a waste of his time and a disservice to the man that he serves, generally, whose office is about 10 feet away in the Oval Office."