Posted on 09/25/2015 3:29:53 AM PDT by cotton1706
The Fox News Channel’s top executive, Roger Ailes, is “furious” at the National Review’s editor Rich Lowry for using foul language in an attack on GOP frontrunner billionaire Donald Trump on Wednesday evening, Breitbart News has learned.
An individual with knowledge of these matters told Breitbart News that Ailes is “furious” at Lowry for saying on Megyn Kelly’s program The Kelly File on Wednesday that former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina “cut [Trump’s] balls off with the precision of a surgeon, and he knows it, he knows it.”
Ailes is mad at Lowry because this move means, in the ongoing war between Fox News and Trump, Fox News has now “given up the moral high ground.” Essentially, Ailes understands, that means his network looks like the unfair aggressor that Trump has accused it of being—rather than a neutral arbiter of the news—all while Trump continues soaring in the 2016 GOP primary polls.
New York Magazine’s Gabe Sherman, the author of an anti-Ailes book, wrote on Thursday that the war between Trump and Fox News won’t end anytime soon.
“By now it should be clear to both sides of the Donald Trump–Fox News war that there never was — nor will there likely be — an enduring truce,” Sherman wrote.
Sherman’s piece came in response to the latest development, from Ailes, that Ailes has—after Trump decided that for now he will boycott Fox News shows in response to negative coverage of his presidential campaign—planned a meeting with Trump to discuss Fox’s coverage of him.
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Almost seems like it was planned for Lowry to say this and for MeGYN to look shocked. Also proves, once again, that she is unprofessional. It is her show, after all. Maybe she should go back to modeling lingerie where credibility is not an issue.
Kelly, to me, is today’s Jane Fonda...gorgeous and poisonous. I quit watching Fox after the debate. Am loving OAN with my Amazon Fire TV.
Yes, the GOPe has too much power at Fox News and they are trying to push Jeb on us at all costs but, hey, this is supposed to be a news network, not an advocacy network. At what point do you risk any pretense of objectivity in order to placate the bosses?
The journalists of 20-30 years ago would have never let this become an issue. They would have insisted on the integrity of their news reports and leave the editorializing aside for others. Somehow, today's newsrooms have lost that perspective.
This is probably in part because the politics are all driven by polls and the polls themselves are tweaked to say what they want.
This was the news network that embraced Sarah Palin and then all but kicked her out. There's too much blurring of news and opinion now which is why I don't bother to watch any of it.
I think all Trump wants is fairness and I don't see why an alleged news organization isn't bending over backwards to be fair.
In the first place, the little pip-squeak Rich Lowry is stupid. You don’t piss off a guy who has $10 Billion, powerful connections and a temper.
If Ailes was really worried about occupying the moral high ground he would not foist O’Reilly and Brian Kilmeade on us five days a week.
IMHO Ailes should be PO’s at miss prissy Kelly for laughing over the high schoolish remark and instead told that nerd that she will not tolerate talk like that on her show
Funny how priggish and PC everybody is getting now that the Donald is getting gored...
Ailes should be furious. Lowry went far out of his own way to be as insulting to Trump as possible.
Including lying about Fiorina’s effectiveness against the man, using a vulgarity to frame the lie.
Being a Senator forces you to work within the system. Sometimes you have to vote for a good bill that includes some bad things and sometime you vote for a bad bill to achieve some good. I have no doubts whatsoever, that if Cruz was the Senate majority leader, the choices of what was even available to vote on would be completely different, and we would be heading in the right direction.
You are bashing Cruz. To what end? Cruz is my #1 choice, but he, regrettably, hasn't gotten enough traction. Trump, while not nearly the conservative that Cruz is, HAS gotten that traction. If we end up with someone other than those two, the Republicans might "win", but the US will surely lose, perhaps a bit more slowly than if Biden were president.
“You are bashing Cruz.”
Bashing? I merely recited his voting record. I said nothing about “purity”. Those two votes, especially the Iran bill, can result in the destruction of the United States. It involves a bit more than just a “bad” bill.
. . . which is precisely what Kelly avoided when she and her sidekick “moderated”that “debate."If Trump had immediately, after his “O’Donnell” retort, told Kelly that nobody was tuned in because they wanted to hear about entertainment shows because they were all too worried about the policies of the Administration, and how to shut them down, he’d have gotten huge applause from the audience. If he further had said that FNC enjoyed good ratings because people thought they would not broadcast claptrap when they had an opportunity to elicit substantive public policy information. And if he further suggested that Kelly should make sure she had management behind her before she risked damaging the FNC brand, he might have gotten through.
In the early 1990s a close relative of mine worked at the Atlantic City Press. Don Trump owned his casinos then and would run several full page ads 7 days per week in that paper.
The lefty writers couldn’t control themselves and every now and then a Trump hit piece would be published. Don would immediately pull all advertising.
The publisher, wearing his suspenders, would then call a company meeting. Everyone was required to attend. He would explain the impact of the loss of revenue and scold the writer in front of everyone.
Within a few days the full page ads would appear again.
Don still responds the same way today. He hasn’t changed a bit. It is very refreshing to see someone stand up to the left wing enemy media.
I see what you did there...
Contrary to several posts here, I see nothing wrong with Trump and Fox making up. Seems both side would win - FOX would get the ratings and try to reclaim its “fair and balanced” reputation, deserved or not, and Trump would get exposure, something essential to winning elections.
Lowry is a paid contributor to Fox news.
I read yesterday that Lowry had used this same line twice before. Once on CSPAN and once on a radio program.
I can see you are into sound bites and do not do your homework. Let me educate you if you have the time to read instead of just watch Glen Beck or Faux News.
“You mean Cruz who voted for TPA and the Corker bill, and now goes around the country vehemently campaigning against his own vote?”
“You mean Cruz who refused to say he would deport all illegals? Which means he is pro-amnesty.”
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Again he has not said he would not deport ALL illegals. Again you listened to a MSM sound bite that twisted the words. Some illegals he said would and needed to face the judicial system that is why they would not be deported. You implying that makes him “pro-amnesty” is not only a far reaching childish gaming tactic it is ludicrous.
“You mean Cruz who voted for a five-fold increase in H1-B visas?”
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Again here we go with your partial MSM sound bite and not the complete statement. Senator Cruz said that it would be possible once all of the illegals were taken care of and jobs were not filled by Americans FIRST, H1-B Visas MAY have to be increased (not five-fold) to fill the job demand.
There odawg, now you have the whole story not just the MSM sound bite to chew on.
Do you feel better or now are you angry that it does not fit your into your square hole?
Enjoy your day FRiend. Cruz just took care of Boehner for us and he is not finished getting rid of the evil that is in DC.
The two will make a fine sr/jr partnership on the Trump/Cruz ticket
Cruz is not so vain that he would support Trump as VP.
Now if it was the other way around, Trump would be an anchor and a detriment to the ticket, IMO
Trump as the #2 doesn’t make any sense, whereas Cruz at #2 IMO actually gives Ted the best chance of eventually making it to the top.
Trump needs to see some heads rolling down the hallway
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