Posted on 08/11/2015 3:11:01 PM PDT by GoneSalt
The real reason Fox News gave in decided to play nice with Donald Trump is that they were flooded with criticism from their viewers after Megyn Kelly went after the top Republican candidate.
Donald Trump returned to Fox and Friends this morning, where he was given his usual diet of Charmin fresh softballs to ramble on about. What was interesting about his appearance was that it even happened. Trump’s return to Fox marked a complete capitulation by the network after they tried to run him off of the stage during the first Republican debate.
After Fox News had tried to ruin Trump’s candidacy during the debate, they were stunned by a viewer rebellion where Fox News watchers took the side of Trump over the network’s prized big star Megyn Kelly.
New York Magazine detailed the unexpected Fox News viewers rebellion:
According to two high-level Fox sources, Ailes’s diplomacy was the result of increasing concern inside Fox News that Trump could damage the network. Immediately following Thursday’s debate, Fox was deluged with pro-Trump emails. The chatter on Twitter was equally in Trump’s favor. “In the beginning, virtually 100 percent of the emails were against Megyn Kelly,” one Fox source, who was briefed on the situation, told me. “Roger was not happy. Most of the Fox viewers were taking Trump’s side.”
Things got worse for Ailes over the weekend. In a phone conversation, Trump told Sean Hannity that “he was never doing Fox again,” according to one person with knowledge of the call. The anti-Kelly emails, and threat of a boycott by Trump, seem to have pushed Ailes to defuse the war. One Fox personality told me that Fox producers gave instructions to tell in-house talent not to bring up Trump’s controversial comments that Kelly had “blood coming out of her wherever” during the debate. According to one count, Fox only aired Trump’s comment once since Friday, while CNN mentioned it at least 50 times.
In recent days, Ailes got a glimpse of what a Trump-less Fox News would look like. On Sunday, Trump called in to the four other public-affairs shows; this morning he gave interviews to Today and Morning Joe. Inside Fox, this was alarming. “This thing with Megyn got way ahead of Roger and bigger than he must have thought,” one Fox personality said. “Roger wants this to blow over,” another source added. “He’s upset that conservatives are mad at Fox.” Online, Ailes also took flak. Both the Drudge Report and Breitbart News carried pro-Trump headlines.
If Fox News ever lost the backing of conservatives, the network would be toast. Fox News doesn’t many moderate or liberal viewers. Their audience is overwhelmingly conservative Republicans. As a matter of survival, Ailes could not have his viewers favorite candidate boycotting his network.
The leadership at Fox obviously doesn’t understand their audience. Viewers support the bigotry, misogyny, and sexism of Trump. Racism and bigotry are two of the main reasons why Trump is so popular with Republican voters.
Fox News has lost control of zombie army that they created. Donald Trump uses the same strategies as Fox News, but in many ways, he does them better. Fox News made Trump into a political figure by giving him a platform, but the billionaire has evolved and stolen the hearts of their audience.
The network’s debate strategy backfired. Trump has gained in popularity. One of their biggest stars was criticized, and conservatives rebelled. Big bad Fox News was brought to its knees as Donald Trump demonstrated that Fox is far from unbeatable.
Fox has been exposed as being just as Left as the rest of them.
OAN here we come.
If the fight goes down to the wire with Speedo’s, I’m going for the broad. Sorry!
Megyn isn’t running. Get back to issues.
The consequence of failure when striking the king does not kill the king!
Viewers support the bigotry, misogyny, and sexism of Trump.
Hey, Jason Easley, are you sayin’ I’m a racist zombie bigot?
Same to you—in spades!
(Oh, I’m sorry. was that racist?)
No wonder theyre playing the ‘Megyn us getting death threats from trump’ card.
Fox News on its knees, a pretty picture.
I’m still not interested in watching Fox.
I can get my news just fine off of the internet and radio shows, such as Levin, without having to listen to all the endless babbling talking fools on Fox.
Furthermore, there are a number of people there now that I do not need to know their opinion on anything, ever, for any reason at all. Holder, Rivera, McCain, Williams, Powers, Kelly, O’Reilly, P. Rino, Smith, Wallace just to name a few.
I think a lot of the frustration and anger was from viewers thinking,
“OK, finally! A venue without lefty moderators with axes to grind.”
All we’ve ever asked for is a level playing field.
But not two minutes into it, Mr. `Not this **** again!’ face-palmed himself.
So... much... bile!
Conservatives are being called a zombie army of misogynistic racist bigots. I mean what, no references to the trailer parks we’re all supposed to live in? Marriage to close relatives?? Yards full of dead cars???!
Amazing!!
37% of the FOX “News” ambush-’debate’ was
the moderators (biased pro-alQaeda Democrats)
talking their biased orders from above.
FOX robbed the American people.
But that is the entire problem, Megyn's job was to probe the candidates about the issues this country if facing, not to incite with gotcha questions.
If I want to watch that kind of crap, I'd be a MSNBC or CNN viewer.
I wish OAN was more widely available.
That said, the fact Sarah Palin recently visited their LA office for 2 days is interesting - especially since FOX did not renew her contract.
Why would we believe anything said here?
Are we having a Brian Williams Story Time moment?
And if Trump is ever interested in owning a news channel. Well there it is.
“Racism and bigotry are two of the main reasons why Trump is so popular with Republican voters. “
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They just won’t let that go,will they?
Most annoying,and not true of course.
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