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.
Oh brother, so we needed another R POTUS again so we could repeat all these great sounding excuses again?
Hey, then when they totally F up again and we can just all call it ‘Democratic policies’ and that makes it all better? Look at all the excuses we could have been making for Romney in a few years.
No wonder O got two terms.
Stab in back???? GWB didnt sound like he had a gun pointed at his head when he made this speech:
GWB 2002 Speech :”More and more people own their homes in America today. Yet we have a problem here in America because fewer than half the Hispanics and African Americans own their own homes. That’s a home ownership gap; a gap that we got to work together to close. And by the end of this decade we’ll increase the number of minority homeowners (future Obama voters ) by 5.5 million families. “
“One of the major obstacles to minority home-ownership is financing. Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac (who I will bail out in 2008) have committed to provide more money for lenders, they committed to meet the shortage of capital available for minority home-buyers. Freddie Mac just began 25 initiatives around the country to dismantle barriers (like income requirements) and create better opportunities for home-ownership. One of the programs is designed to help families with bad credit histories to qualify for home ownership loans (by faking their income) . You don’t have to have a lousy home for first time home-buyers. You put your mind to it the first time low income home buyer can have just as nice a house as anyone else (till those adjustable rates go up, then they can lose it to the bank) .
President Bush Mortgage Speech 2002(Helping those w bad credit buy houses)
About late 2006 I woke up and stopped repeating the lame excuses for GWB,
Bush home Ownership links:
Bush pushes minority homeownership (FR post | June 15, 2002 | By KATHY A. GAMBRELL)
Bush seeks to increase minority homeownership (FR post USA Today ^ | 1-20-04 | Thomas Fogarty )
President Bush Mortgage Speech 2002(Helping those w bad credit buy houses)
. Compassionate conservatism works great till the bubble pops and all those loans go bad, then the same minorities lose their houses and they all run to Obama.
I disavow and repudiate Bush. Republican leaders should have done the same as soon as Obama took office.
Of course then they couldn’t have nominated Romney.
Yep, all the problems Bush left office with were all Dem policies because he was stabbed in the back by his appointees. So elect McCain and Romney because???
Was he tied up and drugged for 8 years, if so then how did he “keep us safe” ?
How do Republicans repeat this crap?
He was stabbed in the front, by himself.
Exactly, and we have those here on FR who refuse to see the truth.
If they were honest about how they got Obama re-elected, they'd be arrested.
Exactly! But discussion of voter fraud (or more precisely, election fraud and cheating in its various forms, a "talent" improved upon by the 'rats over the years) is the current taboo subject among the political class. Until it is brought out into the open and approaches are implemented to mitigate its effects, the GOP will can't win any national elections, no matter how popular their candidates or policies happen to be. So the subject that should be getting the top priority in the wake of this election is on the back burner.
Rove' strength is rote--he knows how various segments of the public line up, ideologically, and in terms of priorities. He either does not understand, or lacks the moral mettle to pursue, how one must go about changing those ideologies and/or priorities.
Human interaction is a dynamic field. Static analysis will always fail against dynamic analysis; pursuing past preferences is only adequate in a population where everyone shares the same value system. The Left has destroyed any common American value system, with the calculated pursuit of what they call "Diversity."
In the situation, today, we absolutely must get away from sloganized campaigning by 30 second sound bites; by hurling ex cathedra statements at the foe, who like the Biblical Serpent in Genesis is whispering appeals to everything base & vile, in the ears of every definable group. We have to go out and actually persuade again.
This is not hopeless. We have the issues, if we will only address them more intelligently. (See Whither American Conservatism.) We need to understand the real Conservative advantage. We seek to preserve what has actually worked--that is a vast advantage over the neurotic cloud-borne wishlists of the Left.
William Flax
Can't blame him for the unprecedented amount of election fraud which was a major factor causing his inaccurate prediction.
Also, don't count Morris out. Remember that he bounced back from the infamous toe sucking incident to revive his career.
Well said. What's happening before are eyes today definitely has parallels to what George Orwell warned us about. I'm wondering whether Orwell is banned now in high schools and colleges.
” Rove is also on the carpet w/ donors to his “American Crossroads” PAC——wanting to know what happened to the $300 million he collected.”
I wonder how much money Rove put in his OWN pocket?
Would be interesting to see Rove’s fund-raising letters.
To raise that much money-—Rove had to be telling donors the money was going into costly media buys-—maybe negative Obama ads?
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