There seems to be a general understanding in the Media - if you've ever made contact with Karl Rove, anything you do is suspicious and you deserve to be investigated.

In an article about an investigation launched this week by Democrats against a conservative appointee at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the following helped to describe who/what might be at the root of the the offical's alleged misdeeds:

In recent weeks, State Department investigators have seized records and e-mail from the Broadcasting Board of Governors, officials said. They have shared some material with the inspector general at the corporation, including e-mail traffic between Mr. Tomlinson and White House officials including Karl Rove, a senior adviser to President Bush and a close friend of Mr. Tomlinson.

Mr. Rove and Mr. Tomlinson became friends in the 1990's when they served on the Board for International Broadcasting, the predecessor agency to the board of governors. Mr. Rove played an important role in Mr. Tomlinson's appointment as chairman of the broadcasting board.

So now being friends with, and sending e-mails to, Karl Rove is considered suspicious activity. It's almost funny how the press needs to link Karl Rove to every alleged act of malfeasance in Washington. It's like a game of Six Degrees of Karl Rove.