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Source close to Trump: Fox News hosts are asking him to end his boycott so that their ratings don’t
Hot Air ^ | SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Posted on 09/25/2015 8:30:05 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

For all of our Trump fans, a sweet little morsel left over from yesterday’s Gabriel Sherman post about the latest eruption of the Trump/Fox war.

Are there any Fox News hosts so obsequious towards Trump that they might dial him up and beg him to come back, like Johnny Fontane pleading with the Godfather to help him get that part he always wanted? Seems hard to imagine for most of them. Emphasis on “most.”

One reason there likely won’t be peace in our time is that Trump still has not gotten over Kelly’s questioning of him during the opening Republican primary debate. “She caused me a lot of damage, didn’t she?” Trump recently vented to a friend. “He’s really angry,” a source explained…

Both sides are posturing to save face. Yesterday a Fox statement called Trump’s boycott “stale and tiresome.” But a source close to the Trump campaign told me that Trump thinks he has the leverage. Trump has been hearing from Fox hosts who are worried that his boycott will hurt ratings. The calculus seems to be that by shunning Fox, Trump is hoping to drive a wedge between Fox hosts, Kelly, and Ailes. That may be wishful thinking. As an Ailes friend told me today: “Roger can’t turn back. The entire credibility of Fox as powerbroker rests on Trump being destroyed.”

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; fnc; foxnews; gabrielsherman; johnnyfontane; megynblood; megynkelly; newyork; rogerailes; trump
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1 posted on 09/25/2015 8:30:05 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

It’s Me-GYN who has got Trump on the brain. She dedicates her show to attack Trump.


2 posted on 09/25/2015 8:33:20 PM PDT by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Roger can’t turn back. The entire credibility of Fox as powerbroker rests on Trump being destroyed.

I don't believe much of that report.

I will say this. If this is truly Roger's mindset, he's in deep trouble.

3 posted on 09/25/2015 8:34:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: Red Steel

Well, with that, he has put out the doormat for all the MSNBC viewers. All ten of them...


4 posted on 09/25/2015 8:35:19 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

You keep your nose in that corner FOX news.


5 posted on 09/25/2015 8:35:20 PM PDT by RC one (....and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,)
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To: Red Steel

Hell hath no fury like a vindictive harpy exposed.


6 posted on 09/25/2015 8:35:49 PM PDT by Salamander (Paint on my cruel or happy face. Hide me behind it.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

They can still interview Jeb.


7 posted on 09/25/2015 8:36:41 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
"The entire credibility of Fox as powerbroker rests on Trump being destroyed.”

Sums up so much that is wrong.

Fair and balanced? Unbiased reporting? Objectivity? Naaaaaaaaaah -- they're Powerbrokers! They pick winners! They destroy candidates! Isn't that what you want the media to do -- pick your politicians for you so that the voting thing is a foregone conclusion??

No?

Of course, there is the chance that this is just soap opera stuff and Fox and Trump are working together to maximize public exposure to benefit both parties.

8 posted on 09/25/2015 8:36:50 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; manc; wymck; ghost26; PJammers; myuval; tiredofreeloaders; WBITT; ...
TO CONSERVATIVES WHO ARE DONE WITH FOX LIKE ME!

GO TO ONE AMERICA NEWS NETWORK
If your TV service does not carry, call and email daily and if enough folks do it your service will start carrying it. Verizon does.....so tell them you will switch if they don’t! One America News is great! No commercials but instead they do little educational clips of American Historical Facts and tributes to our Military. Awesome!

On line go here:
http://www.OANN.com

Truth is, Donald Trump does not need Fox, they need him!
If they happen to have Donald on, I will watch Fox ONLY during the minutes Donald appears! Then back to OAN!

9 posted on 09/25/2015 8:37:48 PM PDT by seekthetruth (I still want a Commander In Chief who honors and supports our Military!)
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To: Salamander

On the other hand, it is the media, including Fox New, that gave the braggart so much air time he was bound to get high polling numbers.


10 posted on 09/25/2015 8:38:26 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: Salamander

Lol!

So true, so true!


11 posted on 09/25/2015 8:38:36 PM PDT by djf ("It's not about being nice, it's about being competent!" - Donald Trump)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Consider that it is a Trump source ...


12 posted on 09/25/2015 8:39:54 PM PDT by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: seekthetruth

Thank you!


13 posted on 09/25/2015 8:40:06 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (JESUS CHRIST IS MY LORD AND SAVIOUR)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Megyn the Twit didn’t have to start on some inane question about a scene in a reality TV show, which she mischaracterized. She brought about her own troubles. Now she has to live with ratings consequences. As to Ailes, Lowry’s description of what Fiorina did to Trump applies to what Murdoch will do to Ailes if he backs off att all. Murdoch’s pettiness over Ivanka Trump being a loyal friend to Murdock’s ex wife Wendi. Trump can blow off fox news. If he wants to talk to Hannity, there is a radio show for that.


14 posted on 09/25/2015 8:41:38 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: djf

“Powerbrokers”.

Strange that they’d admit they seek to influence elections, no?

Freudian slip or in-our-faces bragging?

Reporters are supposed to report, not pontificate.


15 posted on 09/25/2015 8:44:03 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

The nature of media is changing —they don’t have so much of a shadow of the commanding leverage they once did.

That trend is going to continue for sure.

GOOD FOR TRUMP..!


16 posted on 09/25/2015 8:44:23 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: seekthetruth

Verizon FIos 116/ hd 616. OAN


17 posted on 09/25/2015 8:44:39 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Buh bye faux.


18 posted on 09/25/2015 8:44:43 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

BTTT


19 posted on 09/25/2015 8:45:22 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

“...Trump still has not gotten over Kelly’s questioning of him during the opening Republican primary debate.”

Me neither.


20 posted on 09/25/2015 8:49:07 PM PDT by moovova
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