Drudge is running summaries from Bill Sammon’s Strategery this week. Today’s has two suspect quotes from Karl Rove that are worth noting.

Here’s the first:

Although Memogate was initially expected to harm the president, it ended up backfiring spectacularly on the press.

“The guy that it hurt most was Dan Rather and the executives at CBS,” White House strategist Karl Rove said in an interview for STRATEGERY. “It further disgraced a network which is third in ratings and, if you look at the demographics of their consumers, it’s like 70 percent Democrat.”

However, this Pew poll of news viewers found 16 percent of Americans regularly watch the CBS Evening News, which breaks down into 13 percent of Republicans, 19 percent of Democrats and 17 percent of independents. The only way you get to 70 percent of viewers being Democrats is if Democrats made up 59 percent of the public, which is obviously ridiculous.

In addition, this quote is pure spin:

Rove said Rather and his producer, Mary Mapes, were gunning for the president and trying to help his challenger, Sen. John Kerry, by broadcasting the forged documents in the heat of the presidential campaign.

“From her body language and his body language, their enthusiasm for this story was in large measure fed by the belief that they were playing a constructive and perhaps determinative role in the presidential campaign,” Rove said of Mapes and Rather.

So Rove can tell from their body language that Mapes and Rather were trying to help Kerry? If he’s a psychic, maybe he should be at the CIA analyzing Bin Laden tapes instead.