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Ailes: Palin Was a ‘Branding Issue’
DailyBeast ^ | 09/26/11 | staff

Posted on 09/26/2011 11:12:27 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper

Could Fox News be moving away from the right? As the Tea Party's popularity fades and the country grows increasingly tired of partisan bickering, Fox News chief Roger Ailes is making what he calls a “course correction.” Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin “became a bit of a branding issue for us,” he tells Howard Kurtz in Newsweek. Republican candidates still consult Ailes: when Rick Perry was still weighing a presidential bid, he stopped by Ailes's office and confided he was worried about being able to raise money, and Mitt Romney took Ailes out for a pasta dinner. But Ailes also engineered the Republican primary debate for maximum reality-television conflict, aiming tough questions geared toward the weaknesses of each candidate and prompting them to tear into each other.

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So there will be no doubt....and wait the tea party is breaking up? Really....stupid libs....lol
1 posted on 09/26/2011 11:12:30 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
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To: winoneforthegipper; Virginia Ridgerunner

U might want to see this....


2 posted on 09/26/2011 11:13:26 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Should be barf alert.


3 posted on 09/26/2011 11:14:36 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: winoneforthegipper
CONNECTING THE DOTS

Fox News chief Roger Ailes ----> Chris Wallace RomneyBOT

Fox News chief Roger Ailes ----> Hyper-biased FOX NEWS ProRomney Panel on Sundays

Fox News chief Roger Ailes ----> McGinniss has been friends with Roger Ailes for 44 years

Conclusion: SMELLS LIKE MITT AGAIN

4 posted on 09/26/2011 11:15:31 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Ailes wishes the tea party would fade. Wish away, we’re hear to stay. If Perry and Romney are really kissing up to Ailes, they can kiss us goodbye. We don’t need yes men.


5 posted on 09/26/2011 11:16:02 AM PDT by Linda Frances
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To: winoneforthegipper

I haven’t watched Fox a lot during Obama’s presidency.


6 posted on 09/26/2011 11:16:19 AM PDT by Politics4US
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To: winoneforthegipper
ailes, murdoch and the entire network are and have been progressives... and they want to become the new progressively admired and trusted network... they both hate being talked down to at DC cocktail parties.

LLS

7 posted on 09/26/2011 11:18:04 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Is the person that you support a Crony Capitalist... A.K.A. CRAPITALIST?)
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To: winoneforthegipper

IMHO She is running...this is positioning for her departure so they can be “fair and balanced” in both attacking and promoting her.


8 posted on 09/26/2011 11:18:42 AM PDT by An American! (Proud To Be An American!)
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Could Fox News The Daily Bestiality be moving away from the right?
9 posted on 09/26/2011 11:18:42 AM PDT by jessduntno (Obama shanks. America tanks.)
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To: winoneforthegipper

***Could Fox News be moving away from the right?***

The better question is: ‘Have they ever been there in the first place?’


10 posted on 09/26/2011 11:19:59 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Those who love liberty love Sarah)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Notice what is and is not in quotes from Ailes.


11 posted on 09/26/2011 11:20:16 AM PDT by Huck (But the glass IS half-empty!)
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“As the Tea Party’s popularity fades...”

Huh?


12 posted on 09/26/2011 11:24:27 AM PDT by Castigar
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To: winoneforthegipper

“As the Tea Party’s popularity fades...”

Huh? I’m thinking this is wishful thinking.


13 posted on 09/26/2011 11:25:00 AM PDT by Castigar
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To: winoneforthegipper

Geraldo Rivera, Sheperd Smith, Alan Colmes, Great Van Sustern, Kristen Powers, Bob Betchel, and Chris Wallace...

Fox News has more prominent liberals than MSNBC.

The whole idea that Fox News is a right wing propaganda machine is laughable. It just seems that way because they actually feature a few conservatives with their own shows. Fair and Balanced is a marketing gimmick to get you to watch.

Don’t.


14 posted on 09/26/2011 11:25:21 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: An American!

Yep that was what I meant by “So there would be no doubt”...lol

Great minds!....lol


15 posted on 09/26/2011 11:26:11 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Translation: Ailes doesn’t want crony capitalism to suffer the blow of a Palin Presidency.


16 posted on 09/26/2011 11:26:27 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (Governor Palin: "I'm not for sale." It's true. Watch The Undefeated.)
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To: Linda Frances

“Ailes wishes the tea party would fade. Wish away, we’re hear to stay. If Perry and Romney are really kissing up to Ailes, they can kiss us goodbye. We don’t need yes men.”

AMEN!!


17 posted on 09/26/2011 11:27:16 AM PDT by Cricket24 (Proud to be a CONSERVATIVE WOMAN!!!!!!!)
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To: winoneforthegipper

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2783826/posts


18 posted on 09/26/2011 11:27:31 AM PDT by iowamark (Rick Perry says I'm heartless.)
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As the LSM meme becomes, "As the Tea Party's popularity fades and the country grows increasingly tired of partisan bickering," Ailes sells out conservatives.

There, fixed...

19 posted on 09/26/2011 11:27:41 AM PDT by piytar (The Obama Depression. Say it early, say it often. Why? Because it's TRUE.)
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To: Diogenesis

Foxnews is more Republican than Conservative. They backed Rudy last election and this election they are backing Romney.

Nothing wrong with that, but just be aware of their bias and broadcast it to those that believe everything they say.


20 posted on 09/26/2011 11:29:02 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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