Posted on 09/24/2015 9:40:57 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
The Fox News Channel’s top executive, Roger Ailes, is “furious” at the National Review’s editor Rich Lowry for using foul language in an attack on GOP frontrunner billionaire Donald Trump on Wednesday evening, Breitbart News has learned. An individual with knowledge of these matters told Breitbart News that Ailes is “furious” at Lowry for saying on Megyn Kelly’s program The Kelly File on Wednesday that former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina “cut [Trump’s] balls off with the precision of a surgeon, and he knows it, he knows it.” Ailes is mad at Lowry because this move means, in the ongoing war between Fox News and Trump, Fox News has now “given up the moral high ground.” Essentially, Ailes understands, that means his network looks like the unfair aggressor that Trump has accused it of being—rather than a neutral arbiter of the news—all while Trump continues soaring in the 2016 GOP primary polls. New York Magazine’s Gabe Sherman, the author of an anti-Ailes book, wrote on Thursday that the war between Trump and Fox News won’t end anytime soon. “By now it should be clear to both sides of the Donald Trump–Fox News war that there never was — nor will there likely be — an enduring truce,” Sherman wrote. Sherman’s piece came in response to the latest development, from Ailes, that Ailes has—after Trump decided that for now he will boycott Fox News shows in response to negative coverage of his presidential campaign—planned a meeting with Trump to discuss Fox’s coverage of him.
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The Eltist Rinos never called out Obama or Hillary . Lowery is a sniffling
wannabe conservative who blew it.
National Review should suspend this girly man.
“”Reading them convinced me more than ever that it’s Trump or stay home.””
Trump has definitely stood up to the media. However, I remain cautious because elections eventually come down to specifics and too much anger turns people off the longer they see it. Trump needs to stay on message and let the media look petty.
Just my .02 - it will take a tactician to win next November. His populist message and hammering immigration and jobs is why he soared. His snarky attitude towards the lamestream media won him plenty of fans around here, but I don’t think any of us can predict how that will play to a larger audience as more people begin to pay attention. He needs to stay focused on his message because making it personal will harm him in the long run.
A fun read.
If Trump made the same comment as Lowry people would be cheerinf, but since Lowry made it the same people have turned into little old church ladies. There is no logic in the Trump Zone.That's just it. Don't you remember the "blood coming out from wherever" comment?
Now you're going along with the double standard because you can't see "logic" through your hatred.
IOW, you're the hypocrite but too dense to know it.
I see a problem. When is that last time that a “conservative” talking head on Fox spoke that way about Obama, Biden, Reid or any other democrat? Trump is exposing them as part of the uniparty establishment who act exactly the same way towards conservatives and other non uniparty establishment figures.
Absolutely. The whole thing was rehearsed. Lowry, desperate to stand out for a few nanoseconds, completely blew it. He is a pathetic little squish.
I didn’t know about him...but here’s a collection of Leftist articles that show he certainly adds fuel to fire:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/john-derbyshire
“I’m sure she got a more than a little turned on by the “balls” reference”
That made me snicker in agreement.
Her daddy appears to have raised all of his kids well—which says as much about Trump’s deep character as anything we have to go by.
“I’m anti-Fox and anti-Megyn right now”
Me too. Every night on Fox is “Operation Hummingbird” on Trump. Hannity is the only one in prime time I’ll watch now.
“get blow’d up real good”
Fellow ‘Farm Film Report’ fan?
Still have Fox turned off, since the Debate.
What a complete fiasco.
Trump thank you for standing up on this. I now however, need a new media home.
Who will provide it?
“Who will provide it?”
I don’t think that will be a problem since everything he goes on gets ratings off the chart. He should take on the lib media and stay on message especially about the border. That’s what regular people down in the real world are concerned about and having to deal with. If that’s not fixed, nothing else can be fixed. He should go on everything big and small. I don’t think he needs to affix himself to any one network.
Ailes is ticked at Lowry for foul language; has he checked out that sniveling little twerp...Geraldo?
When will that be?:
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.-- Ecclesiastes 7:20
“Fox News ... a neutral arbiter of the news”
Neutral? As if... If only...
“Her daddy appears to have raised all of his kids well.”
Yes. And if there’s any truth to the article that the Fox Trump bashing is related to Ivanka’s relationship with Murdoch’s ex, it could be to Trump’s advantage. If he chooses to, he could go into an “attack me, but leave my beautiful, accomplished daughter alone” mode. Good parents and decent people could relate to that in a big way.
“I don’t see a problem with the “balls” comment, but Trump will play it hard if he wants to.”
The comment was hypocritical- Fox can say that while accusing Trump of being sexist? Trump didn’t even talk about Kelly’s body parts (although some like to twist his words to think so).
The GOPe would rather LOSE than have an actual conservative in the White House who is not under the thumb of their big money backers.
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