Posted on 12/04/2012 3:41:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
The post-election soul searching going on inside the Republican Party is taking place inside Fox News as well. Fox News chief Roger Ailes, a canny marketer and protector of his network’s brand, has been taking steps since November to reposition Fox in the post-election media environment, freshening story lines — and in some cases, changing the characters. According to multiple Fox sources, Ailes has issued a new directive to his staff: He wants the faces associated with the election off the air — for now. For Karl Rove and Dick Morris — a pair of pundits perhaps most closely aligned with Fox’s anti-Obama campaign — Ailes’s orders mean new rules. Ailes’s deputy, Fox News programming chief Bill Shine, has sent out orders mandating that producers must get permission before booking Rove or Morris. Both pundits made several appearances in the days after the election, but their visibility on the network has dropped markedly. Inside Fox News, Morris’s Romney boosterism and reality-denying predictions became a punch line. At a rehearsal on the Saturday before the election, according to a source, anchor Megyn Kelly chuckled when she relayed to colleagues what someone had told her: “I really like Dick Morris. He’s always wrong but he makes me feel good.”
A Fox spokesperson confirmed the new booking rules for Rove and Morris, and explained that Shine’s message was “the election’s over.”
Multiple sources say that Ailes was angry at Rove’s election-night tantrum when he disputed the network’s call for Obama. While the moment made for riveting television — it was Ailes’s decision to have Kelly confront the statisticians on air — in the end, it provided another data point for Fox’s critics. A spokesperson for Ailes denied any rift between Ailes and Rove, and said the two plan to meet this week.
Beckel’s harmless!
If Republicans as a party really want to find out why they lost when they fully expected to win, they would investigate 'Rat fraud and cheating in targeted locales in the swing states, rather than treating that subject as a big taboo!!! Remember that no pollster or pundit in the world can account for fraud and cheating when forecasting elections.
Like him or hate him there was no Rove meltdown here. But there is liberal spin
I know a lot of people on this forum do not like Karl Rove. However, I do not like how he was treated by FOX on election night. I know he is a GOPe, but I do know that he knows his job and elections enough to know something was seriously wrong. I got the impression that FOX was part of the HOAX the way they treated him like a jester that night.
Bush finished with about a 27 percent approval rating.
As a result, we got Obama. Good riddance to Toyko Rove.
Bush finished with about a 27 percent approval rating.
As a result, we got Obama. Good riddance to Toyko Rove.
I absolutely agree.
All of the guys with a good gig, are afraid of being labeled goofs, if they start to take vote fraud as a serious factor.
These same people won’t admit that Obama is destroying this country on purpose, and keep trying guess what he might do next, “to save his legacy”....
They just can’t imagine he’d let the economy, or the military flounder.....
And when we’re in ruins, and China has taken Taiwan, and Syria has slaughtered it’s people with chemical weapons, BO will laugh and blame the Republicans, who have NO idea how to fight.
LOL.
Thanks for the ping!
About Time! Karl and his little white board can find a new home with Glen Beck. If he will have him!
“All of the guys with a good gig, are afraid of being labeled goofs, if they start to take vote fraud as a serious factor.
These same people won’t admit that Obama is destroying this country on purpose, and keep trying guess what he might do next, “to save his legacy”....
They just can’t imagine he’d let the economy, or the military flounder.....
And when we’re in ruins, and China has taken Taiwan, and Syria has slaughtered it’s people with chemical weapons, BO will laugh and blame the Republicans, who have NO idea how to fight.”
I believe I stopped watching FOX news around 2010 around the Scott Brown election. Maybe after Glen Beck left. Not that there was a correlation. I just hardly have a reason to watch. I watched them on election night though, and they treated Karl Rove like he was an idiot, when they acted for all these years like he was a man of great reasoning and knowledge. It really gave me this idea that they get the media memo that Soros might be sending as well. The marching orders.
Yes obama will be laughing one day, he probably already is. He already has all the pieces put together. We just get snapshots each day, and daily crisis, with talking points of their significance.
Rove and Morris' major "sin" was not playing up the massive voter fraud the sinister O Team was micromanaging from Day One.
Morris made wild predictions---a landslide Romney victory and massive Repub victories in the House/Sen which were based on polling.
Morris should have said: "WE CAN'T POLL VOTER FRAUD."
Rove is also on the carpet w/ donors to his “American Crossroads” PAC——wanting to know what happened to the $300 million he collected.
Bush's approval rating was undermined by the economic "crisis" at the end of his term, largely created by Democrat policy (mandated subprime mortgage lending by large banks, for one) and Democrat "solutions" (in particular, Wall Street bank bailouts by the federal government) pushed on him by his Democrat appointees, Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke. You could say that those two worked from within Bush's administration to stab Bush in the back and grease the skids for Obama's winning the 2008 election, though McCain's pathetic campaign was a factor as well.
Morris’ credibility is gone, he will never get it back.
Agreed.
However, let us also take into consideration the unabated and relentless campaign against Mr. Bush perpetrated by the “Unholy Trio” (The Media, Academia, and Hollywood). The scurrilous assault against Dubya began BEFORE the 2000 election was even decided, and (with a tiny hiatus on 9/11/01) reached a crescendo in the last two years. A lot of the hatred remains, even here on FR. It became fashionable, hip, and “intellectual” to bash Bush. I did not agree with everything he did, but I have never in my life seen such a concerted effort to ridicule and denigrate the leader of my country. Obama won his first election, not only with voter fraud, but by riding a wave of hate, similar to The “Two Minute Hate” campaign in “1984”. The same “Hate Bush” Energy ginned up by this Unholy Trio is now being used to Worship Obama. The institutions that were founded to educate, inform, and entertain us have become the Propaganda Arm of the left...in other words, the “Ministry of Truth”.
It is a grave sin on the part of our Nation, and I wonder if we can recover from it.
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