Fox News Dumps Dick Morris, Renews Karl Rove

American Thinker ^ | 02/06/2013 | J. Robert Smith

[SeekAndFind]

Dick Morris is gone from Fox News. Meanwhile, Karl Rove has been given a new multiyear contract. But why?

A Fox News spokesman said only that the network chose not to renew Morris' contract. It's not hard to figure out why. Morris was glaringly wrong on the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest, predicting often and loudly that Mitt Romney would win in a romp. Funny thing is that Karl Rove was conspicuously wrong about the presidential results, too. Rove just wasn't as vociferous as Morris, except on Election Night. Even respected conservative elections analyst and commentator Michael Barone called the presidential sweepstakes for Romney. Barone is a Fox News contributor.

Rove is currently involved in a dust up with conservatives over his new PAC, the oddly named Conservative Victory Project. Oddly named because the project isn't designed to elect more conservatives to the U.S. Senate (the Senate is the focus of the PAC's efforts). Per the New York Times:

"The group, the Conservative Victory Project, is intended to counter other organizations that have helped defeat establishment Republican candidates over the last two election cycles. It is the most robust attempt yet by Republicans to impose a new sense of discipline on the party, particularly in primary races."

Those other organizations would include tea parties and the Club for Growth, among other "far-right" groups.

In a blistering commentary at RedState, Erick Erickson writes about Rove's latest venture:

"It is interesting though. The people who brought us No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, TARP, the GM bailout, Harriet Miers, etc., etc., etc. are really hacked off that people have been rejecting them. In 2012, about the only successful Republican candidates were the ones who directly rejected the legacy of these people."

[Marathoner 244]

Don’t watch Fox much anymore. Anytime I turn it on they have some liberal talking head on and I can’t stand to listen to them.

[mom.mom]

When Rove comes on my finger just flicks the channel automatically. Sorry, can’t do anything about it.

[pabianice]

You have to remember that The One won with 50.6% of the vote — what he now laughingly calls a “mandate.” He won by being much shrewder in identifying local politics and thus gaining a huge electoral win. Romney’s vaunted Orca was built to win the useless national popular vote, which it almost did. Politics now are strictly local but the Repubs continue to shout Big Ideas when Local Ideas are what win an election.

[pabianice]

Yes, yes, and yes. Fox has become largely unwatchable. Why tune-in to see some brain dead liberal screaming over a conservative to screech that guns must be confiscated?

[Bigg Red]

...Fox News is totally Faux-Conservative ....

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Yep, which is why Greta’s show is the only one I consistently watch. The husband DVRs and watches “Fox and Friends”, “Special Report”, and “O’Reilly”, and I occasionally hear parts of it while I am in another room on the ‘puter.

They lost me a while back. I was taken in for quite a long time, but they have shown their true colors.

[Notary Sojac]

There were lots of self-styled conservatives here on FR who supported the bank bailouts and relentlessly trashed those of us who opposed them.

They've been pretty quite of late, though....

[rockinqsranch]

Their talk is all about winning, but I notice none of their talk is about what’s good for America. Just about winning.

Seems the right focus is missing in their talk.

We need the likes of DeMint, and Palin who talk about American worth, and value, AND winning.

[Notary Sojac]

Considering the 2008 and 2012 elections, the current score is:

Mainstream Pollsters - 2

Freepers In Denial - 0

A finding we should keep firmly in mind in future.

[stuartcr]

I haven’t watched FNN since 2008. Looks like I haven’t missed much.

[Tublecane]

I don’t really get your point. It wouldn’t matter if Morris had been with Clinton only a day were he a good tv hack. Likewise, I don’t care if Rove was Cardinal Richelieu if he sucks on tv, which he does. Judging which one sucks worse is like arguing over how many angels can fit on the head of a pin.

There has been a strong tendency for politicians to slide on over into news commentary, or straight news if they’re still libs like Stefapopolus. But I don’t see any real connection between having been the architect of Bushy failure for eight years and commenting on the day’s events. Unless they were to bring their unique knowledge of “inside baseball” to bear. Either they don’t, or inside politics is just as hiring as superficial politics. Either way, I don’t see any advantage to Rove’s having been within the halls of power longer.

[SeekAndFind]

It looks like CNN is really interested in Dick Morris. It also looks like FOX News ratings are tumbling as a result of the wrong election predictions of their pundits.

I don’t know who among the competing news networks is benefiting from the ratings tumble.

See here:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/morris-fox-news-fired/2013/02/05/id/489080?s=al&promo_code=12570-1

EXCERPT:

Morris, reached via email, told Newsmax he is looking forward to
his appearance on CNN Wednesday night.

“Piers and I have a lot to talk about, and I am excited that Piers is giving me this opportunity,” Morris wrote cryptically. “You won’t be disappointed, so tune in.”

Fox’s rating have fallen dramatically in the wake of last year’s election. Press reports indicate the cable channel is re-evaluating its approach after President Obama’s strong re-election victory, despite the fact a number of Fox hosts and analysts predicted otherwise.

[FR_addict]

“I stopped watching all the news shows, and especially the commentary shows.”

Me too. Since the elections, I stopped watching Fox. They even went more left than they already were. Once in a while I still watch Hannity, but when he announced last night he had Tokyo Rove on, I turned him off.

Also I caught Judge Jeanine's show and listened to her on the second amendment. That's about it. They can keep their new liberal audience.

[SeekAndFind]

It looks like CNN is really interested in Dick Morris. It also looks like FOX News ratings are tumbling as a result of the wrong election predictions of their pundits.

I don’t know who among the competing news networks is benefiting from the ratings tumble.

See here:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/morris-fox-news-fired/2013/02/05/id/489080?s=al&promo_code=12570-1

EXCERPT:

Morris, reached via email, told Newsmax he is looking forward to
his appearance on CNN Wednesday night.

“Piers and I have a lot to talk about, and I am excited that Piers is giving me this opportunity,” Morris wrote cryptically. “You won’t be disappointed, so tune in.”

Fox’s rating have fallen dramatically in the wake of last year’s election. Press reports indicate the cable channel is re-evaluating its approach after President Obama’s strong re-election victory, despite the fact a number of Fox hosts and analysts predicted otherwise.

[GP100]

Rove has done a lot of damage to the GOP and the vetting process.

[FR_addict]

Morris does not put down conservatives like Rove. Rove goes after conservatives and leaves Democrats along. I realize that Morris background is a liberal toesucker and he was probably telling the audience what we wanted to hear, but he is far more tolerable than Rove, who has such major disdain for conservatives.

[Tublecane]

That inarticulate crap is a red herring. Firstly because it’s a tired, old lefty trick to pretend the more conservative you are the more stupid and/or crazy you are. Do you really think it’s a coincidence every single Dem and East Coast, country club Pub was smarter or saner than Goldwater, Reagan, Palin, etc., unless they were Quayle?

More importantly, how many flubs did Bush the Younger have? Probably less than Vixen, but it was a “gaffe” a day. I suppose it’s not supposed to matter since he won. Except it’s exceedingly easy to argue he fist us the 06 and 08 elections at least, and perhaps marred the brand for a generation. Not to mention his rule was in fact defective and causative of all manner of evil, not merely painted that way by the other side.

Then there are a million establishment Pubs wrecked by their tongues. Trent Lott, for instance. Akin was hardly a newbie. Aside from Bachmann the loosest mouth of the presidential nomination sweepstakes was the establishment Santorum.

No, sorry, I can’t take this seriously. The “architect” of Bushism fighting inarticulateness? Too, too rich.

[Tublecane]

Of course FR is schizophrenic on this. It’s schizo on everything. All it takes is an article mentioning Lincoln, for instance, to have us at eachother’s throats, each side comparing the other to the antichrist.

[cricket]

Not sure ‘why’ . . .despite his past; despite his faulty analysis. . .did like Dick Morris. Am far left forgiving of Karl Rove. Did see him the other night on Fox and was surprised. Wondered if they still owed him an appearance; or maybe they would let him come on; in ‘small doses’/lol. Apparently; a whole lot more to it. They should have Rush on; for balance; as in ‘corrective’ analysis.

[Tublecane]

You’re coming at it from the perspective of who’s nicest to conservatives, which is fine. I’m wondering which makes for better analysis or, failing that, better tv, according to which it’s impossible for me to pick between them. There is a difference between being a good pundit and pleasing me ideologically, though you might not notice given how lousy is today’s tv punditry.

I enjoy Krauthammer, for instance, even though he’s pure beltway and I hardly ever completely agree with him. Judged against him both Rove and Morris are slithering slugs.

[re_nortex]

...which is why Greta’s show is the only one I consistently watch.

We'll just have to differ on this since I can't get past Greta Van Susteren's membership in the Christ-denying cult of Scientology. Admittedly, that whole bunch can be smooth, charming and very good actors but when I see her face and hear her voice, her adherence to that very disturbing belief system puts her on my "do not watch" list. I realize that there are many here who like her in spite of her being a member of L. Ron Hubbard's bizarre cult.

But for me personally, I just can't trust anyone who buys into that non-Biblical nonsense whether it be John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Tom Cruise or Greta Van Susteren.