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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More validation for my decision to delete Fox news from my life. They are now dead to me.
GOP needs to cancel this debate
Too many conflicts of interests
Should be interesting Chris Wallace Show Sunday
All the radio hosts were in on this?!
I’m turning off the radio.
The sources used are:
"None of the attendees agreed to be identified for this article because the conversations were supposed to be confidential." PS I am 100% voting Trump. But Sorry I dont trust the NY Times.
I sort of thought something was about to break. Rubik has been acting like a 12 yr old since the day before the last debate. Constantly repeatedly himself and the comment about Trump’s face was something you’d hear in a kindergarten
Totally disgusted! And, the stupid talking heads wonder why voters are angry??
So who was a source at the dinner meeting that leaked? Was it perhaps Christie? Why is this story coming out now? It slams Rubio, a globalist. NYT wouldn’t really have a problem with a globalist uniparty member running the WH.
Was it to slam Fox news and conservative pundits? There is that angle to drive an effective wedge.
Who benefits? Trump it would seem, But he is not a favorite of the NYT.
So who benefits. Not Cruz...NYT detests Cruz more than Trump.
The whole story is interesting indeed.
Not sure who is on onyx list. Sorry if you got double pinged but it’s important !
It makes total sense now
The Slimes cannot be trusted but we need to verify the information presented. Ask Rush if this is true, let him confirm or deny.
He is not teaming up with Rubio. You manufactured that out of nothing.
Cruz said in several of the debates that “any of these candidates would be better than Hillary.” Now he says Rubio would be better than Trump. So? That is not teaming up. And if it were (it is not), that has nothing to do with Fox News. Fox News has treated and is treating Cruz horribly. Not a drop of fairness and balance in them.
They will not they are using everything to take trump down.
Their power is threatened. Goper rino vichy repubs want to stay in power.
Well, well, well.
Lots of damage control will be going on for many “conservative” radio talking heads in the next 48 hours.
Monday radio should be entertaining.
They keep using that number - as if it has any basis in reality.
When you see the word NEWS, 9 times out of 10 you should replace that word with PROPAGANDA.
ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, MSNBC, etc are not there to inform us, but to influence public opinion.
I am dumbfounded. The conservative pundits were involved, supported amnesty of the 30 to 50 million foreigners who came into the US illegally. (We all know the figure is not 11 million)!
So these cuckservative pundits supported the democrat/marxists in creating their leftist voting majority?
These cuckservative pundits have supported the left in opening our borders to all manner of horrific Third World violence, crime, and disease. They have betrayed their listeners by secretly being part of the New World Order cabal that supported and endorsed this agenda every single step of the way.
wow.
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