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NYT Reporter: Rush Forced Fox to Back Down on Trump
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/13/2015 5:42:09 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Did Rush Limbaugh force Fox News, in the wake of the Donald Trump/Megyn Kelly dust-up, to back down and welcome Trump back on its network? That's what New York Times reporter Nick Confessore suggested on today's Morning Joe.

Asked by Mika Brzezinski who was the most powerful person in the media today, Confessore responded: "I think Fox or Rush Limbaugh [whose last name Confessore pronounced "Lim-bow], right? In this primary, right? There were two institutions that could have put a stop to Trump, talk radio and Fox. And talk radio likes him and Fox backed down."

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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Rush and 20,000 posts from viewers and Meghyns viewership cratering, but yes Rush is the reason.

Pray America is waking


21 posted on 08/13/2015 5:53:44 AM PDT by bray (Cruz to the White House)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

NYT Reporter: Rush Forced Fox to Back Down on Trump”

Nope. Donald Trump's high poll ratings and even more importantly, high TV ratings forced Fox to back down. Roger Ailes wasn't going to sit idly by while Trump continued to appear on CNN everyday while boycotting Fox, and end up taking TV ratings away from Fox.

22 posted on 08/13/2015 5:57:41 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: 9YearLurker

I’ll stick by my title. From the transcript:

“There were two institutions that could have put a stop to Trump: talk radio and Fox. And talk radio likes him and Fox backed down.”


23 posted on 08/13/2015 6:00:08 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I believe Roger Ailes was instrumental in putting Rush on the air nationally in 1988. Perhaps Rush still has his ear.


24 posted on 08/13/2015 6:00:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That isn’t just makeup on him. That’s product with makeup applied over it.

The little metrosexual at the Slimes panties are all wadded into a bunch I see.


25 posted on 08/13/2015 6:05:41 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Hillary, you magnificent bitch! I read your book!")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I’m not sure why it would be so improbably for Rush to pick up the phone and say Roger, you got 24 million viewers and it wasn’t because of Linda Graham.


26 posted on 08/13/2015 6:06:32 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I am spared the need to think by simply always doing what Rush says.

Rush thinks for me, this way I avoid pain and confusion.


27 posted on 08/13/2015 6:07:21 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

My, isn’t he a whisper-thin lad?


28 posted on 08/13/2015 6:07:56 AM PDT by struggle
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To: bray

A Leftist family member once told me that he thought a lot about why anyone would reject the sound and reasonable opinions and ideals of the progressives, since they were so good, and helped so many people. His only conclusion was conservatives are:

1. Racist

2. Sexist (even the women, but they’re brainwashed by their stern, demanding, patriarchal, overbearing, racist(1.), sexist(2.) husbands.

3. Mind-numb robots lead by Rush Limbaugh.

4. Mind-numb robots lead by Faux News.

5. Mind-numb robots lead by (insert name of 1984’s Goldberg-like-hate conservative here).

6. Stupid.

I didn’t counter a thing. I just laughed in his face and told him his line of reasoning was retarded. Everyone else laughed at him, too.


29 posted on 08/13/2015 6:08:08 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

This article had a lot of good details as to why FOX buckled & I don’t recall seeing Rush’s name mentioned:

Donald Trump and Roger Ailes Make Up — for Now
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/08/donald-trump-and-roger-ailes-make-up-for-now.html?mid=twitter-share-di


30 posted on 08/13/2015 6:09:21 AM PDT by Qiviut (Stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not suffer loss)
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To: Mozilla
Trump wanted an apology from Kelly’s pointed questions, while Ailes wanted Trump to stop the pointed and sexist attacks on one of his anchors.

If Ailes doesn't want sexist attacks on his women anchors perhaps he should have them dress a little less 'sluttily'.

31 posted on 08/13/2015 6:10:50 AM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

‘Asked by Mika Brzezinski who was the most powerful person in the media today, Confessore responded: “I think Fox or Rush Limbaugh [whose last name Confessore pronounced “Lim-bow], right? In this primary, right? There were two institutions that could have put a stop to Trump, talk radio and Fox. And talk radio likes him and Fox backed down.”

HuffPo’s Sam Stein essentially seconded Confessore’s notion.’

Meh. Weak extrapolation based on generalities which arrive at notions. Zero evidence.


32 posted on 08/13/2015 6:15:33 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: jpsb

Megyn did not apologize and called the selective character assassination good journalism. Fox news owns this debacle.


33 posted on 08/13/2015 6:20:11 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Megyn made the debate about her petty gripe. She failed miserably. She choked, choked like a dog!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
...I just laughed in his face and told him his line of reasoning was retarded....

Being a good little leftist, however, he probably thought your reaction was further proof of his moral superiority and intellectual prowess.

34 posted on 08/13/2015 6:22:06 AM PDT by doc11355
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To: pgkdan

Mr. ailes should not hard bimbos if he wants his anchors to be treated like ladies.


35 posted on 08/13/2015 6:22:16 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Megyn made the debate about her petty gripe. She failed miserably. She choked, choked like a dog!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

This is called “establishing a narrative”. The left does it all the time.


36 posted on 08/13/2015 6:33:39 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The left has ZERO understanding of what conservatives think. It is like they are trying to divine our intentions by reading the cracks in turtle shells.


37 posted on 08/13/2015 6:35:12 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: doc11355

Probably.

Still don’t care...

I haven’t seen him in a while, but when I have, he never brings up politics with me anymore!

Then again, he’s had a few issues with life, and I do believe he may have changed because of them. When he said that stuff ten years ago, he was a pimple-faced college freshman.

Now he’s a few-times-laid-off but working taxpayer, who got robbed at gunpoint once.


38 posted on 08/13/2015 6:42:09 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: circlecity
Why should any institution be trying to "put a stop" to Trump?

Because he stands in direct opposition to the establishment. The sad part is the # of GOPe RINO jackboot lickers out there willing to carry the water for the very same organization that has been bending them over and screwing them for so many years. I used to think that a libtarded democrat was the worst kind of voter, but no more. It has become painfully clear that the ignorant, low info battered wives of the GOPe are.

39 posted on 08/13/2015 6:46:19 AM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I looked at MSNBC and CNN today to see how they were reporting on the Hillary email developments.
Zip, zilch, nada.
CNN did have a blurb on how Hillary will use her, “playbook” to survive.


40 posted on 08/13/2015 7:00:15 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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