In his “Media Notes” column today in the Washington Post, Howard Kurtz focused on Karl Rove’s “second act” in politics as a Fox News contributor and credited Rove for being “generally fair-minded in his commentary.”

But later in the column, Kurtz quoted Fox News senior Vice President John Moody saying “there’s no attempt to conceal” the fact that the network hired Rove to be a partisan and offer “Republican spin”:

Rove’s commentary on Fox News has been anything but “fair-minded.”

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A recent Politico article reported that Rove is now “informally advising” Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) presidential campaign and Fox has continually failed to reveal that fact. Kurtz said Rove “disputed” the Politico report, characterizing his relationship with the McCain campaign as merely “chitchat” among friends:

Kurtz did not indicate whether Rove said chitchatting with McCain’s campaign is any different from advising it.