Posted on 01/28/2016 12:25:18 AM PST by GeaugaRepublican
Axelrod's Wish: On page 424 of his recent memoir, Obama's former top strategist David Axelrod describes running into Fox chieftain (and immigration amnesty supporter) Rupert Murdoch at a dinner in the fall of 2010:
During the dinner, Murdoch, who was seated beside me, insisted that the president had to move on immigration reform.
"But the solution has to be comprehensive," I said. "We can't just attack a piece of the immigration problem. And you know, there's one big thing that you can do to help, and that is to keep your cable network from stoking the nativism that keeps us from solving this." [Emphasis added] [Note: I posted this on Daily Caller. They took it down, saying I couldn't "trash Fox" on their site. I quit Daily Caller. Reposting the item here without changes.]
(Excerpt) Read more at kausfiles.com ...
Placement
The got a Muslim activist, Bernie voter and that’s not including the anti Republican Faux questions.
They are all out to get CBS or NBC jobs, especially Megyn.
Will not watch.
They jumped the shark a while ago. They have now been eaten by the shark.
Bookmark.
Fox delivered. What makes me so sure? I've got proof! Or close to it.
He then lists every lead story each day on Megyn Kelly's "Kelly File" show from January 14 (the day the House sent the Senate a DHS bill with a "rider" blocking Obama's amnesty) until March 3, the day the House finally caved and passed a "clean" DHS bill.
He picked the Kelly File because it seemed the high-viewership show likely to best express Fox News Channel's id.
He noted: "Bill O'Reilly is powerful and egomaniacal enough to go rogue."
Oh yeah. I agree with that. too. BOR would NOT have played along with this scheme.
Welcome to silly season on FR.
http://newscorp.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors/
Elaine L. Chao (McConnell)
24th U.S. Secretary of Labor, 2001-2009
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/24/getting-to-maybe
JUNE 24, 2013
Fox News has notably changed its tone since the election. A Democratic policy staffer who worked on the issue in 2007 and has helped write the current bill said, “NumbersUSA and FAIR” - two groups that want to dramatically limit immigration - “managed to convince Fox News back then to be their twenty-four-hour news channel of the anti-immigrant point of view. Fox has now totally bought in to the idea that we just need to figure something out.” Rush Limbaugh, who fiercely opposes the bill, has come to sound resigned. “I don’t know if there’s any stopping this,” he said on January 28th, the day the Gang held the press conference announcing its framework for the legislation. “It’s up to me and Fox News, and I don’t think Fox News is that invested in this.”
McCain told me, “Rupert Murdoch is a strong supporter of immigration reform, and Roger Ailes is, too.” Murdoch is the chairman and C.E.O. of News Corp., which owns Fox, and Ailes is Fox News’s president. McCain said that he, Graham, Rubio, and others also have talked privately to top hosts at Fox, including Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Neil Cavuto, who are now relatively sympathetic to the Gang’s proposed bill. Hannity voiced support for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, which he previously dismissed as “amnesty,” on the day after the 2012 election. “God bless Fox,” Graham said. “Last time, it was ‘amnesty’ every fifteen seconds.” He said that the change was important for his reëlection, because “eighty per cent of people in my primary get their news from Fox.” He added that the network has “allowed critics to come forward, but it’s been so much better.”
Kaus will now publish his columns exclusively on Kausfiles, a blog that was previously featured on Slate. But he said that Fox News’ influence over The Daily Caller was indicative of a larger problem in conservative media.
“It’s a larger problem on the right: Everybody is scared of Fox,” he said. “Fox is their route to a high-profile public image and in some cases stardom. Just to be on a Fox show is a big deal. And I think that’s a problem on the right, Fox’s monopoly on star-making power.”
Elaine Chao is married to.....Sen. Mitch McConnell.
Says everything you need to know about the Daily Caller.
(And Fox.)
While Megyn Kelly made headlines with her heated questioning of Donald Trump, not one of the Fox News anchors asked Rubio in the first Fox News debate about his signature piece of legislation, which Murdoch’s immigration lobbying firm had endorsed. Instead, they lobbed Rubio a series of softballs, such as asking Rubio if he could put God and veterans in the same sentence.
Interestingly, Bill Sammon - FOX News’s vice president of News and Washington managing editor - is the father of Brooke Sammon, who is Rubio’s press secretary.
Fox's Chris Stirewalt: Sammon Is “The Best” At “Crafting The Questions.” Asked by Fox host Howard Kurtz how he and the debate moderators would formulate questions to keep candidates off their talking points, Fox News digital politics editor Chris Stirewalt said they have a “secret weapon” in Sammon, “who is the best at not only team cohesion and keeping everybody on point about what the point is, but in crafting the questions.” From the August 2 edition of #MediaBuzz:
KURTZ: You've been to this rodeo before. How do you and Megyn Kelly and Bret Baier and Chris Wallace go about formulating your questions knowing the candidates are going to try to pivot to their talking points?
STIREWALT: Well, the first thing is we have a secret weapon and that is Bill Sammon, who is the best at not only team cohesion and keeping everybody on point about what the point is, but in crafting the questions.
KURTZ: Washington bureau chief.
STIREWALT: Absolutely, he's a managing editor and a great mind and a great journalist and so that is a big help. [Fox News, #MediaBuzz, 8/2/15]
Sammon Meeting With Moderators Regularly To Refine Questions. Sammon is meeting with the three moderators in regular “murder board” sessions where questions are refined. From a Washington Post profile of Fox's Chris Wallace, one of the moderators:
On a recent Thursday morning, Wallace walked the few steps from his small, memorabilia-filled office — a photo of him playing hoops with Michael Jordan, his late father's Rolodex — to the more spacious suite of his boss, Bill Sammon, the vice president of news, who had called together a small debate-prep meeting.
“It's insane interest,” Sammon said as Wallace took a seat. Sammon was fielding calls from campaigns that wanted him to walk them through the debate rules, while also trying to finalize the program. Sammon is against opening statements. Ten statements from 10 candidates would be a buzzkill, he argued. Wallace nodded.
“I talked with Bret. He's written 54 questions,” said Sammon.
“I've written 22,” said Wallace.
Twenty-two is about as many as each moderator will have time to ask. With 10 candidates — each vying for a knockout moment — the anchors will have to keep their questions precise and their eyes on the clock.
“We'll have murder board Monday,” Sammon said. “Another Wednesday and Friday. The week of the debate, every day; and two a day if we need to.”
Murder boards, in Fox parlance, are sessions where each moderator's questions are refined — pared if they are too long, scuttled if they are too “weedy.” Sammon, Wallace, Kelly and Baier will harshly criticize each other’s work. [The Washington Post, 8/3/15, emphasis added]
They have been compromised
MM...The same person who got money from Donald Trump.
Onyx on CNN last night one of DTs people said that the guy who organize the debate , that is always on MK show, Stillner or Stillwell , His daughter is head of Rubio campaign. Jane Long and others were discussing how smooth FOObios presentation was almost like it was a pre written memorized statement. FAUX failed to disclose this relationship. Is daddy helping her with the campaign It needs to be looked into and exposed. And at least doubts need to be planted
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