Posted on 02/27/2016 10:16:35 PM PST by MichelleWSC3
A few weeks after Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 79% joined a bipartisan push for an immigration overhaul in 2013, he arrived alongside Senator Chuck Schumer at the executive dining room of News Corporation’s Manhattan headquarters for dinner.
Their mission was to persuade Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the media empire, and Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive of its Fox News division, to keep the network’s on-air personalities from savaging the legislation and give it a fighting chance at survival.
Mr. Murdoch, an advocate of immigration reform, and Mr. Ailes, his top lieutenant and the most powerful man in conservative television, agreed at the Jan. 17, 2013, meeting to give the senators some breathing room.
But the media executives, highly attuned to the intensifying anger in the Republican grass roots, warned that the senators also needed to make their case to Rush Limbaugh, the king of conservative talk radio, who held enormous sway with the party’s largely anti-immigrant base.
The dinner at News Corporation headquarters — which has not been previously reported — and the subsequent outreach to Mr. Limbaugh illustrate the degree to which Mr. Rubio served as the chief envoy to the conservative media for the group supporting the legislation. The bill would have provided a pathway to American citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants along with measures to secure the borders and ensure that foreigners left the United States upon the expiration of their visas.
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Yet more nonsense from a rabid Cruz supporter, LOL
That’s unfortunate to hear about The Noggin from Cape Girardeau
And you’re right.....the booth hill is southern and delta land
David Limbaugh talks similar to me and my first adult love was from that area.....same town as Sheryl Crow ...Kennet Missouri and she was a cotton farmers blonde blue eyed daughter with a profound southern accent who attended Arkansas in Fayetteville
That’s not the only reason I support Cruz, but I was saying that’s why I trust him to hold truer to conservative positions than others. People who hold strong religious convictions are less malleable personalities in general. It takes a strong personality to stay religious in the face of a secular culture. I’m not worried about the type of religion as long as it’s Judeo-Christian.
And THANKS for the ping!
Disappointing
This primary season is scrubbing us clean like lava soap
I'm done with him and almost ALL of FNC.
Not a problem. It is just mind-boggling how bad the establishment really is and how far their reach stretches.
That is a fair reason to trust his core
I can’t fault that
But in business sometimes I’m wary of Christians who advertise it too much in a negotiation
On the other hand....I have been helped....nay....redeemed by the faithful at my biggest lender
I have had a big lender assist me behind the usual out of shared faith and ideological perspective
If someone had written an novel of Election 2016, you would put it down half way through and say, “ridiculous”! But hang on, this election year isn’t even half over. Yikes!
Here’s some encouragement for you!
I’ve been making calls.....FLORIDA LOVES TRUMP!
Rush and most of the people on FNC were NEVER my "friends", nor are any of them members of my family!
ALL of mt family members and friends are Trump supporters; so are my dentist, all of his assistants, my doctors, nurses who work for them, and even my favorite checkout girl at the grocery store I shop at.
And as for Levin, he and I fell out many years ago, HERE, when he used to post all the time and proved what an arrogant, narcissistic arse he is.
I can't decided whether your TDS is making you such a silly little nothing, or if you've always been one.
Seriously!
Maybe you should have a talk with Ben Carson, for starters.
Once a member of the Gang of Eight, always a member of the Gang of 8...
this is not just an ugly a tie Rubio grabbed as he rushed out the door...
this is a something that took a lot of thought and his decision was going to effect millions of Americans for good or bad...life or death...
He decided against American citizens...
Bless you for all your efforts!...Hugs!
LOL...I’m almost ALWAYS correct. ;^)
You and I have reached the same conclusion, only in the opposite direction.
I listen to his opening, and then turn it to the local classic rock station. After this past Friday, it will be ALL classic rock!
I quit watching FNC during the 2012 debacle.
BTW, I remember the thread where I believe you and he locked horns. ;o)
Wow!
LOL...I bet many other posters don't even know what that was/is.
Onyx, I think you should keep having those five dollar money bombs. I was always too ashamed to donate because that is about what I would have to donate, but I did for the $5 money bomb, and the next time I have an extra 5 I will donate, also. I broke through my zone... thanks.
Limbaugh was pushing Rubio.
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