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Friends Push [Fox News head Roger] Ailes for President
Politico ^ | 10/23/2009 | Mike Allen

Posted on 10/23/2009 9:42:07 AM PDT by Alter Kaker

Friends and associates are encouraging Fox News chief Roger Ailes to jump into the political arena for real by running for president in 2012, top sources tell POLITICO.

"Ailes knows how to frame an issue better than anybody, and that's what we need now," says one Ailes friend who is encouraging the Fox founder, chairman and CEO to seek the Republican nomination to run against President Barack Obama.

Ailes, 69, has an aggessive, winning personality that made Fox News a huge success — and a huge target for liberal critics.

Frank Luntz, the well-known Republican pollster, said Ailes could be a force if he makes the run.

"I have known Roger Ailes for 29 years," says Luntz. “No one knows how to win better than Roger."

Talk of an Ailes run, which informed sources said is based on more than mere speculation, could escalate the White House war with Fox war in wildly unpredictable – and fun – ways.

It was Ailes who recently held a private meeting with top White House adviser David Axelrod to ease tensions. The meeting was not a success.

Shortly after, the White House stepped up its attack on Fox – and Fox has proudly fired back.

Fox executives are relishing the public spat – so much so that virtually every on-air personality talks about it, and Sean Hannity has made it a central part of his show’s promo.

The biggest reason: ratings at Fox are through the roof.

From his official bio: “Roger Ailes has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FOX News Channel since 1996, Chairman of Fox Television Stations and Twentieth Television since 2005 and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FOX Business Network since 2007. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Ailes was President of CNBC from 1993 to 1996 and served as President of America’s Talking, an information talk channel that later became MSNBC.”

As a legendary Republican political consultant in an earlier career, Ailes helped engineer victories for Ronald Reagan in 1984 and George H.W. Bush in 1988.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary; ailes; ailes2012; foxnews
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I’d about guarantee you’re right.

The trouble is, those like Luntz who depend on Fox for work aren’t going to risk shooting it down, so the Dems and the media may succeed in giving this legs.


21 posted on 10/23/2009 10:08:07 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Welcome2thejungle

Probably don’t need a President who will cry under pressure.


22 posted on 10/23/2009 10:09:51 AM PDT by Dan Nunn (Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise. -The Great One)
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To: Alter Kaker

No way..


23 posted on 10/23/2009 10:12:22 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Dont Tread on Me)
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To: astyanax

I think 30% of Americans are a “lost cause,” not 10-20%.


24 posted on 10/23/2009 10:12:25 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: Buckeye McFrog

>>I smell a rat....if the Dems can create the impression out there that Ailes is a political player, then the Obamites can pretend to feel justified in freezing out Fox as a partisan opponent.<<

That bears repeating.


25 posted on 10/23/2009 10:16:13 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: 9YearLurker

Exactly right.


26 posted on 10/23/2009 10:17:52 AM PDT by unkus
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To: Alter Kaker

FOX needs to revisit the idea of a competing nightly news broadcast on the FOX entertainment network of stations!
Brit Hume is the perfect anchor for such a broadcast.


27 posted on 10/23/2009 10:17:59 AM PDT by Bobalu (I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: Alter Kaker

Mr. Ailes,

PLEASE keep doing your day job in the great and effective way that you do.

We can find someone else to be POTUS for a term or two. We need you and your expertise now and into the future beyond arbitrary term limits.

Thank you.


28 posted on 10/23/2009 10:18:13 AM PDT by paulycy (Predatory Pricing = Public Option = Unethical Competition .)
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To: Alter Kaker

But, but, but, he’s not black!


29 posted on 10/23/2009 10:20:35 AM PDT by Gator113 (Obamba, Reid, Pelosi, the socialist triad.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

You make a good point! They need a person to go after and not an institution like Fox News.

Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)


30 posted on 10/23/2009 10:51:36 AM PDT by avacado
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To: Buckeye McFrog
"I smell a rat....if the Dems can create the impression out there that Ailes is a political player, then the Obamites can pretend to feel justified in freezing out Fox as a partisan opponent."

Bingo!

31 posted on 10/23/2009 10:56:16 AM PDT by redhead (The libs are SCARED TO DEATH, folks! :o))
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I smell a rat....

BUMP

32 posted on 10/23/2009 11:00:52 AM PDT by paulycy (Predatory Pricing = Public Option = Unethical Competition .)
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To: Alter Kaker

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard yet...
I agree I smell a rat...


33 posted on 10/23/2009 11:16:13 AM PDT by savage woman
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To: Alter Kaker

Ailes, DeMint,Palin, Patraeus, Oliver North,Jonah Goldberg,John Bolton, the NRA and a few others need to meet and evolve a take back the Republican party strategy.

Our leadership is now beginning to crystalize.Lets hope it manifests in time.


34 posted on 10/23/2009 11:42:51 AM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
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To: Alter Kaker

guys like Rush and Ailes are far too important getting out IDEAS than they would being president.


35 posted on 10/23/2009 11:50:10 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Alter Kaker

President? President of what????


36 posted on 10/23/2009 11:54:17 AM PDT by DallasSun (i believe in separation of church and hate.)
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To: Welcome2thejungle

I cannot believe you said that. What is wrong here? Ailes? BEck? Do you guys just not want to win in 2012? This is crazy. You guys know better than this.


37 posted on 10/23/2009 11:56:21 AM PDT by DallasSun (i believe in separation of church and hate.)
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To: Candor7
Lets hope it manifests in time

That;s the key question. And how to delay/stop Zer0's RADICAL BUM-RUSH, is another.

38 posted on 10/23/2009 11:58:09 AM PDT by Beloved Levinite (I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
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To: Alter Kaker

He would have my vote. Palin or Norris as VP.


39 posted on 10/23/2009 12:01:57 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Beloved Levinite
If they do not evolve in time, we will have violence in this country. That fact hangs in the balance. A nation which refuses the laws of its government will resist their enforcement, unconditionally. The election in 2010 needs to have leadership of , by and for the people. Right now we do not have that.

This is a significant problem.

40 posted on 10/23/2009 12:04:06 PM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
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