McCain adopted a child from Bangladesh a while back. Good for him, seriously. But what Rove painted as a liabilty at one time is now an asset. Rove is now an advisor to the McCain campaign, BTW. From Think Progress:

Last night on Fox News’s The O’Reilly Factor, Karl Rove discussed Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) 'compelling' life story. In addition to his time as a prisoner of war, Rove pointed to the fact that McCain adopted a daughter from a Bangladesh orphanage:

"And today, that young child — who was near death — is their teenage daughter. I don’t think most people understand the compassion and love that would come from a moment like that."

But as Nicole Belle points out, as an adviser to the Bush campaign in 2000, Rove attacked that young girl. From The Nation:

"Rove invented a uniquely injurious fiction for his operatives to circulate via a phony poll. Voters were asked, 'Would you be more or less likely to vote for John McCain…if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?' This was no random slur. McCain was at the time campaigning with his dark-skinned daughter, Bridget, adopted from Bangladesh."

Last night, Fox News also failed to identify Rove as an adviser to the McCain campaign.