Posted on 04/20/2015 3:06:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Fox News president Roger Ailes thinks Ted Cruz could become the Republican nominee. But he doesn't appear to think much of him.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Ailes was asked whether he thought Cruz could win the the GOP nomination. His answer: Sure, it could happen. Because just about anybody could win, right?
"Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance," Ailes said. "You don't know who you're going to be running against. If the other guy falls on his rear end, you could win."
Harding -- ouch.
For those of us who haven't taken an American history class in a while, Harding looked the part of a president, but today is "considered one of the country's worst presidents," as Time said. He was president from 1921-1923, and his short administration was plagued by scandal and he died in office of a heart attack. Not exactly the example you want to follow -- apart from the whole becoming-president part.
So, yes, if Jeb Bush is caught on camera with his own "47 percent" remark and Scott Walker has an embarrassing photo of himself taken riding around in a tank and Marco Rubio does a weird yelp at a campaign event that goes viral and every other Republican candidate does something to "fall on their rear," as Ailes would say, Cruz could just as easily win the Republican nomination....
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Thanks!
Fox is dominated by the Bushies. It getting harder and harder to watch it. I have been switching to Pawn Stars
Why does the electorate allow folks like ailes to tell them who to vote for?
Which brings me to this: We on FR may be able to see through the attempts at manipulation, but there’s a whole lot of voters — far, Far, FAR more than there are freepers — who will vote exactly as teh TV tells them to vote.
Cruz needs to pull a Reagan: Talk directly to the people whenever a microphone/camera is shoved in his face and wholly disregard the media’s agenda.
It is going to be an uphill battle all the way and he will need all the help he can get. If Cruz is going to beat the media at their game, he’s going to have to buy a lot of air time to get his message out unedited/twisted. I’ve read a few times that Hillary is on track to raise over $2 billion (yes, that’s *BILLION*) for this one campaign.
DO NOT send one red cent to the GOP/RNC or any of their crony orgs. Please starve those beasts. Give as much as you can tolerate directly to Cruz. Get the pry-bar out if you need it to crack open your wallet and grit your teeth to get past the pain if you have to. Every little $5 or more donation will help.
No media blackout of Ted Cruz here on Free Republic.
Free Republic Cruz Country
After the Gabby Giffords shooting, Ailes threw Sarah Palin under the bus when she refused to take his advise and chose to fight back against the spurious attacks on her.
His political acumen leaves something to be desired.
See my tagline.
“Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding”, who was the the third best Republican elected in the 20th century.
There roger I finished your sentence for you.
Ask me if I care.
Primum non nocere [Above all, do no harm]. By that measure, Harding was a regular rock star among Presidents.
Heh!
In the interview, Ailes was foul-mouthed and secular. He spouted the libertarian mantra that he doesn’t care what anybody does in their private life. That was the sum total of his religion, such as it is.
Really? Does he not care about the 50 percent illegitimacy rate? Millions of abortions? The total redefinition of marriage? Druggies killing brain cells and not doing homework? Millions of Americans dropping out of the workforce?
Ailes was about as juvenile and anti-Christian as he could be. Explains a lot about Fox.
Not only her, they are all afraid to mention TED CRUZ, I noticed this for some time now.
We’re on our own.
La deuxieme resistance
Roger Ailes worked as a media man for RIchard Nixon, whose supporters criticized the liberal media, supported the Fairness Doctrine and enforced it against NBC News and a conservative radio preacher.
The slogan of Nixon supporters was that news should be “fair and balanced”.
Now you know the rest of the story behind a network whose job it is to make conservatives angry with liberals and Democrats and set RINO’s up as the solution.
Yes sir. See my post #55.
Those 3 were horrible for sure. The evil uni- party.
Yep, and we’ve known it for years. They are the fake conservative news, to keep all of us on board.
I stopped watching Fox after The Five went sour on Ted Cruz. I get my daily news from Freerepubic and other similar news sources and I listen daily to Glenn Beck, Rush and Mark Levin. I want my news straight, without the floor show.
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